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The latest press releases from the HomeOwners Alliance:

• 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

• April 9, 2018

  82% of UK adults support government plans for estate agent regulation

  With the Government announcing at the weekend plans to improve the home buying and selling process, our annual HomeOwner Survey, sponsored by BLP Insurance and polled by YouGov, looks at whether homeowners and sellers agree with some of the Government's ideas.

• March 9, 2018

  More than 90 per cent of home sellers choose high street agents over new breed of online rivals

  Homeowners are still overwhelmingly opting for their local high-street agent when selling their home, despite the emergence of the new breed of online agents, latest research has revealed.

• January 19, 2018

  Manchester property sales are now three times faster than London

  We unveil the top 10 fastest and slowest locations to sell a home in 2018.

• November 1, 2017

  Failed home sales cost homeowners over £500m a year

  With news today that over £500m a year is wasted on failed attempts to buy and sell properties in the UK, here at the HomeOwners Alliance we are calling for the introduction of reservation agreements to help protect homeowners' hard earned cash.

• April 28, 2017

  £36,000: the value of the right estate agent

  Britain’s top estate agents are netting tens of thousands for home sellers, research finds. We take a closer look at how to choose the right estate agent for you.

• May 22, 2016

  Hard-hitting recommendations to tackle poor quality of new homes

  HomeOwners Alliance and BLP Insurance back All Party Parliament Group (APPG) initial recommendations

• May 11, 2016

  Housing crisis deepens as concerns mount among increasingly desperate first-time buyers

• April 22, 2016

  Twice as many support stamp duty surcharge than oppose

  Twice as many support stamp duty surcharge as oppose, despite loud opposition from landlord groups, our 2016 HomeOwners Survey reveals.

• February 1, 2016

  Stamp duty surcharge could harm the very homeowners it is meant to help

  HomeOwners Alliance welcomes the stamp duty surcharge policy on second homes in principle, but the design “is so flawed that the government must go back to the drawing board"

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