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...Residential rents climbed 12 per cent in August, their largest annual increase on record, according to data from estate agency Hamptons....
...Researchers said fewer employees at participating companies quit, while revenue rose by a third on average compared with the same period in 2021....
...UK rents rose by a record 9 per cent last month despite stagnant house prices, as higher borrowing costs squeezed both landlords and tenants....
...Even though it is less than an arm-span wide, it is now an oasis with three ponds, edibles including cucumbers, melons and chillies, and ornamentals such as lupins, jasmine and roses....
...While home values in Stamford rose 4.7 per cent in 2023 and now cost £415,800, 42 per cent above the Lincolnshire average, according to Hamptons using Land Registry figures, this is cheaper than Bath (£490,890...
...According to data from estate agent Hamptons, a record 50 per cent of homes sold in England and Wales in 2023 went for a reduced price, up from 32 per cent in 2022....
...While looking at dado rails I spot three interior columns from Hampton Court Palace, from around the late 17th century, propped up against the wall....
...Knight Frank calculates that foreign ownership of second homes in Sweden — excluding among Danes, Norwegians and Germans, whose relative proximity means they have always been keen investors — rose by 6.3...
...to a red-cedar shingle in the Hamptons....
...Next month, John Singer Sargent’s classic Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose will be a star of Tate Britain’s upcoming show Sargent and Fashion, while at Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch’s beloved 1982 dance piece Nelken...
...Of the homes sold in Oxford this year, 64 per cent went for less than the initial list price, compared with 48 per cent in 2022, according to Hamptons....
...Separate analysis by Savills found that, in the first nine months of 2023, the share of total spending on house purchases coming from cash buyers rose to 45 per cent, the highest since at least 2007....
...Research by Hamptons, the estate agent, suggests Walker’s decision reflects a wider trend....
...The average rent across the UK was £1,283 in June, 28 per cent higher than in February 2020, at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to estate agency Hamptons....
...The average two-year buy-to-let residential mortgage rate in the UK rose from 4.5 per cent in August 2022 to 6.6 per cent at the end of August 2023, according to Moneyfacts....
...Aneisha Beveridge, head of research at estate agent Hamptons, said lenders’ withdrawal reflected the greater risk of 95 per cent LTV mortgages compared with products with larger deposits....
...Average UK rents rose by £1,320 in the year to September, or £110 a month, to an annual £13,956, according to property site Zoopla....
...Today, Karmely’s gardens are lush and fragrant, overflowing with jasmine, rose organzas and clementines. “You’re completely bathed in scent out here,” he says....
...DeSantis is expected to court more wealthy donors next week, with a fundraiser in the Hamptons on Thursday....
...London rents on newly let properties rose 17.2 per cent in the year to April, according to data from estate agency Hamptons on Monday, with the average monthly rent in the capital surpassing £2,200 for the...
...Chart of the day The S&P 500 rose 3.1 per cent in July after closing up 0.2 per cent yesterday at 4,588.96....
...Rents rose 5.1 per cent in June, according to the Office for National Statistics, the fastest annual pace since records began in 2016....
...The cost of materials, such as plasterboard, rose dramatically and tradespeople’s day rates went up by 30 or 40 per cent.”...
...record, according to Hamptons, using Land Registry data....
...House prices rose by 19 per cent between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the end of 2022 but “incomes rose by a much more modest 9 per cent”, said Andrew Harvey, senior economist at Nationwide...
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