Property
Every man needs a cosy get-away within his home for that much needed privacy. You know how much of a handful it can be trying to watch a football match with kids running and yelling...
The families of those killed in the line of duty will be at the front of the queue for social housing, Housing Minister Grant Shapps has announced...
Prime central London rents increased by 0.1% in April, but landlords should not expect a rapid rise in the next few months, Knight Frank reports...
New buy-to-let lending in the first quarter of this year totalled £3.7billion (32,300 loans), according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders...
The more optimistic outlook for the residential property market looked to have run out of steam last month as prices edged lower, according to the latest RICS UK Housing Market survey...
This week more than a million people have been hit by the Standard Variable Rate and variable rate mortgage rise...
After four long years of grim statistics, could the UK property market finally be looking more positive? Continued signs of improvement were seen during April according to the latest figures from "For Sale" board company Agency Express's Property Activity Index...
The gap between private and public sector registrations to build new homes in the UK continues to widen, figures released by NHBC have revealed...
The state of the housing market was the key focal point of a recent HSBC debate which brought together a panel of distinguished experts from the property industry...
Britons are becoming increasingly confident in the outlook for the housing market, according to the latest Halifax Housing Market Confidence tracker...
Gross mortgage lending in March was an estimated £13.4billion, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders...
Knight Frank/Markit’s House Price Sentiment Index signalled a further drop in house prices during April A perceived reduction in home values was reported by 17% of households, versus around 8% indicating a rise...
With rents close to record levels across virtually all UK regions it is not, on the face of it, a bad time to be a landlord...
Demand from the important first-time buyer market hit a ten-month high in March, according to the latest figures from the National Association of Estate Agents...
Prime country house prices fell 0.5% in the first quarter of 2012, moderating from a 1.7% decline in Q4 2011, according to the latest figures from Knight Frank...
The number of property sales hotspots in England and Wales fell to their lowest level since the height of the financial crisis, according to research by Lloyds TSB...
Demand for retail premises continued to stutter in the first three months of 2012. This, combined with growing availability in the sector, resulted in a further drop in rental expectations, the latest RICS UK Commercial Market Survey has revealed...
Potential buyers continued to test the market during March as the stamp duty holiday finally came to an end, according to the latest RICS UK Housing Market Survey...
The first green shoots of recovery have been seen in some prime residential markets beyond London which recorded their first quarterly price rise in a year, according to the Savills prime regional index...
Nearly half of all over-50s would back Government support for the use of equity release plans to boost retirement income, a study by independent adviser Key Retirement Solutions shows...
UK house prices posted a monthly rise for the first time in 20 months in March on the back of increased demand, activity and a scarcity of housing for sale, according to the latest data from Hometrack...
Residents of East Cambridgeshire have the best quality of life of any rural area in Great Britain, according to the latest Halifax Rural Areas Quality of Life Survey...
Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders rose 28% in February 2012, compared to the same month last year, according to the latest data from the Building Societies Association...
The price of a typical UK house declined by 1% in March, according to the latest data from Nationwide...
Property closest to some of the best primary schools in England have reached such a high price premium that buyers can expect to pay up to 42% more than they would for comparable homes nearby...
A 4.8% growth in the average monthly rent led buy-to-let investors across the UK to achieve a rental yield of 6...
Rents dipped in February as an increased number of tenants considered moving into the sales market to beat the end of the stamp duty holiday, according to the latest Buy-to-Let Index from LSL Property Services...
Regulatory reform for residential property needs to come out of ministers' "too difficult pile", according to RICS...
Emerging markets saw the biggest increases in house prices over the past decade, according to the Lloyds TSB International Global Housing Market Review...
Following another year which saw a further increase in letting complaints, The Property Ombudsman, Christopher Hamer, has renewed his call for standards to be raised across the lettings industry in his latest Annual Report...