The British street with an average £9.6m house price tag
Outside London, Old Avenue in Weybridge, Surrey, had the highest average asking price for properties in 2024 so far, at...
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House price falls have bottomed out – now is the time to buy
The past 18 months have been a turbulent time in the property market, buffeted by rising mortgage rates, a drop...
‘Move to Germany if you can’t buy a house’, says Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud
The Government was reportedly considering “99pc mortgages” before Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget, but the policy was dropped and no other...
Rise in work-from-home surveyors risks leaving homeowners unable to sell
The rise in banks using property surveyors who are working from home risks leaving homeowners trapped in homes they cannot...
Michael Gove’s second homes crackdown is Marxist – and dangerously naive
Thus the principle of relating council tax liability to the likely use of services by the occupier of the property...
Where priced-out families are moving for property bargains
Midhurst, which sits within the South Downs national park, also has good quality state and private schools, and while buyers...
‘We sold our house – then the bank knocked £100,000 off its value’
Discovering that her lender thought it was worth only £320,000 was a huge shock. “It was crazy,” added Lea, who...
First-time buyers behind half of London property sales
First-time buyers have bought record 50pc of homes sold in London this year.Across the country, the share of houses purchased...
For 800 years, commoners have nurtured the forest. Now they are being forced out
Andrew Parry-Norton, chair of the Commoners Defence Association (CDA) and a commoner himself, is one of them.“We’re facing money coming...
UK’s war on landlords won’t end until they’re all annihilated
The estate agency Savills reported in February that the the delivery of new homes fell by 9pc in 2023 compared...
