Help to Buy driving Taylor Wimpey sales

The Help to Buy scheme aimed at getting buyers on the property ladder is continuing to drive sales for Taylor Wimpey, factoring into almost half of the housebuilder’s sales in the first half. The company said that 42pc of the 5,766 homes it completed sales on in the...

London’s property market still has legs

The property renaissance started in London’s West End; the question now is when will it end? Office rents have been rising, but capital values have risen faster still, and yield compression has taken yields back to pre-crash lows seen in 2007. Conventional...