Door still open on cheap new home for first-time buyers
Barratt in Bristol is urging first-time buyers to take advantage of the extension to a national scheme which enables people to buy a new home with virtually no deposit.
Barratt in Bristol is urging first-time buyers to take advantage of the extension to a national scheme which enables people to buy a new home with virtually no deposit.
Help for first-time house buyers to renovate their new homes is being made available by Bristol City Council in the form of low-cost loans.
No-frills offices for small and start-up businesses in Bristol will be opened next month by the company owned by easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Bristol-based student housing developer Unite Group is to raise £82million of fresh capital via a sale of 32.8million shares to exploit a dearth of student homes across London.
Shares in Bristol-based student accommodation group Unite jumped 7% in early trading this morning after it reported that it sees attractive development opportunities emerging, particularly in London, and plans to buy new sites.
House prices in Bristol fell by nearly 20% in the year ending in June – the second largest fall in the UK – new figures by the Land Registry have shown. The average price for property in the city now stands at £149,962, down from £186,177 just 12 months ago – a fall of 19.5%.
A building society is introducing 125% mortgages, the BBC reports.
However the deal from Nationwide is only for its existing borrower who want to move house even though they are in negative equity. New customers will be capped at 85% of the value of the property they wish to buy.
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