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London Estate Agents Blog - Friend & Falcke
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West London estate agents dealing in residential property lettings, also find property for sale
or rent through Friend and Falcke in south London.
Recent Posts
Interest Rates
The Bank of England is expected to announce no change in policy when it reveals the outcome of its most recent meeting later.The Bank is likely to hold interest rates at 0.5% and leave its £200bn asset purchase programme unchanged. Last month, the B...
Letting Property
With November being the best month for Sales for at least 18 months we have seen Lettings quieten down after a very busy couple of months. The many enquiries we had from tenants have been filled with them in situ for Christmas. We have a number of e...
House Price Increase
House prices have risen for the fifth month in a row, says the Halifax, one of the UK's biggest mortgage lenders.Its latest survey says prices went up by 1.4% in November, pushing the cost of the average UK home to £167,664. Although that is still 1...
Stamp Duty Reform
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said the end of the stamp duty exemption on properties costing up to £175,000 could have a "detrimental effect" on the recovery in areas that were lagging behind the rest of the country. It said surveyors...
House Price Increase
UK house prices have risen for the seventh consecutive month, helped by better-than-expected news from the job market, the Nationwide has said.The building society said that the average home increased in value by 0.5% in November compared with Octobe...
Mansion Tax Bad for Property market
The Liberal Democrats have doubled the threshold at which they say homeowners should pay an annual "mansion tax".Properties will now have to be worth at least £2m to incur a 1% charge - the previous plan was to charge 0.5% a year on a property's val...

