Blog: LSL Land & New Homes

The next generation of 3D virtual tours allows buyers to explore properties as if they were really there...

A recent Glenigan Construction index reports that the West Midlands has outperformed all other UK regions in October, with the value of construction project starts up by 44%, compared with October 2017.

Recent ONS (Office for National Statistics) analysis suggest that the UK construction sector expanded by 2.1% in Q3 when compared with Q2. Given that in Q2 there was also growth, this indicates sustained rebound following a contraction of 1.6% in Q1. In part this has been due the way in which pub...

In the year to end Nov 2018 new build house prices rose on average by 3.3% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 9.2%. It now looks highly likely that 2017 will prove to have been the peak year for new build transactions in the current residential property market cycle...

With many national retailers declaring that it is perfectly normal to start Christmas shopping in October, when should Xmas campaigns start when marketing new build properties?

Increasingly, as a result of recent economic uncertainties, developers are using Part Exchange to reduce their costs. By removing buying and holding costs margins can be increased, and time is released. We can get rapid sales, prevent transactions from falling through and can monitor interest lev...

In the year to end Oct 2018 new build house prices rose on average by 3.7% across the UK which is down on last year’s figure of 9.5%. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has recently published its analysis of house building activity to the end of the June quarter 2018, in En...

Analysis of data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) shows that new home construction is now almost at levels seen prior to the crash of 2008...

The PX Hub has been recertified by BSI against the Quality Management System standard ISO 9001:2015

As expected Philip Hammond has confirmed that stamp duty will be abolished for those buying via a shared ownership schemes, for homes worth less than £500,000. This change is effective from 29th Oct and will be backdated to November 2017. This policy change is expected the cost the government onl...