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Competition among sellers will increase as mortgage rates settle at ‘elevated’ level, website predicts

If age is just a number, where the heck does that leave house prices? Inexperienced buyers (and given the irregularity with which people purchase property, that is most of us) are often intimated by the imposing number placed beneath that misleadingly wide lens money shot on Rightmove.

Know what you want and set an all-inclusive budget

From raising the stamp duty threshold to slashing inheritance tax, extending mortgage guarantees to new deposit-saving schemes, here's what could be announced tomorrow

Once in a property, renters can find landlords monitoring their behaviour and making demands about washing and heating

The 2.1 per cent fall in average asking prices is the biggest percentage drop recorded for the month of November in five years

Rolling overage of the latest economic and financial news, as Rightmove reports prices falling at the fastest rate in five years, for the time of year

Owners sell to offset losses from tax changes and rate hikes, meaning fewer homes to rent and thus higher rents

The 1.7% fall in average asking prices is the biggest percentage drop recorded for the month of November in five years, Rightmove said.

Research reveals the extra value achieved by home sellers close to the capital's most famous places

With rents eating up to 85 per cent of their income, tenants facing being forced out of the capital are searching for solutions