Where priced-out first-time buyers are moving out of London
Alison Gaughan and Terance Puna loved living in central London – but the price they paid for easy access to...
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Agents called in to sell off Barclay family properties on Sark
A member of the Barclay family has called in estate agents to sell off more than 100 properties on Sark,...
Mortgage costs rise as interest rates expected to stay higher for longer
Banks are pushing up mortgage costs amid warnings that economic uncertainty could delay future rate cuts.NatWest, Coventry Building Society and...
Gove’s shake up ‘won’t touch surface’ of property crisis
Mr Prothero said: “Labour are saying the right things, however, what they say and what they will do are entirely...
Elderly couple told they had to sell home to house asylum seekers
Councils are compulsorily purchasing empty properties to meet a surge in the number of asylum seekers being granted leave to...
The students living in retirement homes to save on rent
Knowing how she thrived around young people, her family encouraged her to turn her study into a bedroom to ensure...
Why Gove’s planning shake-up will not fix the broken housing market
Melanie Leech, chief executive of the British Property Federation, also shares the view that converting derelict retail or office buildings...
Michael Gove’s home extension shake-up risks middle-class ‘civil war’
Lawyers said Mr Gove’s new rules could also undermine the common “rights of lights” law, which entitles a property owner...
‘We bought two flats in Kew but our boys want to live in Hackney – what do we do?’
Lee Shortt thought she and her husband were doing the right thing when they bought two flats five years ago...
First-time buyers in London must now save for 31 years for a deposit
The number of first-time buyers fell to the lowest level in a decade last year, with spiralling mortgage costs and...
