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The latest press releases from the HomeOwners Alliance:

• May 7, 2019

  42% of homeowners hit a brick wall finding a builder

  It's clear from our latest YouGov poll that homeowners are putting off renovating their homes, particularly in London. The biggest obstacle? No, not Brexit, but finding a builder. But it's not the only obstacle...

• May 4, 2019

  A third of us pay cash to avoid VAT to afford home improvements

  Home improvements are expensive. But add on VAT at 20% and you can see why our HomeOwners Survey reveals homeowners either deterred from doing home improvements at all, or forced to pay cash to afford it

• April 25, 2019

  Family wait a year for over 100 snags to be put right in their new home

  As homeowners continue to suffer from poor quality new builds across the UK, we look at recent TV coverage for one of our members

• April 5, 2019

  “House builders won’t deliver quality unless we hold back cash”

  That's what almost 9 in 10 (88%) of new build homeowners and three-quarters (76%) of UK adults are saying according to our latest study to measure support for the introduction of a ‘snagging retention’ system - where buyers withhold funds to house builders until they rectify any faults.

• March 25, 2019

  32 million people think Britain’s homes are not “fit for purpose”

  In this year's HomeOwners Survey, concerns about the quality of Britain’s housing stock and our outdated leasehold system have soared faster than at any point since 2014. We take a look at worries UK housing isn't fit for purpose - and other issues keeping us all awake at night....

• October 25, 2018

  HOA investigates murky world of online auctions to buy and sell property

  It's the new way of selling that offers a quick sale and added security, but at what cost? HOA looks at the modern method of auction.

• October 15, 2018

  1 in 5 suffer moving day delays, costing homeowners over £15 million

  Thousands of homeowners across the UK have to cancel their moving day as a result of delays, losing hundreds of pounds in the process, a new survey has revealed.

• June 11, 2018

  Housing ladder broken at every step

  Our latest research by YouGov shows the extend of the housing crisis with 7.5 million locked out of homeownership; 3 million want to move but can't; and 1 million older homeowners have nowhere to move to.

• May 13, 2018

  Home Selling Pain Points 2018

  More than 300K property transactions collapse every year due to broken chains and buyers changing their mind, costing sellers £2.7K. This and more from our Annual HomeOwner Survey on the real pain points of selling your home

• April 18, 2018

  Serious housing problems hit 5-year high

  UK adults are more concerned about property prices and availability today than at any point in the last five years, our latest Annual Survey reveals, with 2.75 million more people now saying house prices are a serious problem

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