Property Market

Yourshack scoops top accolade

A lettings agency in Manchester has picked up a top accolade in the International Residential Property Awards 2010. Yourshack, which focuses on letting and managing properties in Manchester city centre, won the Five Star award in the Best Lettings Agency category.

AXA completes 285,000 sq m of lettings in French portfolio

AXA Real Estate, the leading real estate manager in Europe and second globally with €39 billion of assets under management, announces that it has signed 112 leases representing 285,000 sq m of space across its French portfolio this year.

Perfect homes for first time buyers at Augusta Park

Anyone thinking of purchasing their first home should pay a visit to Taylor Wimpey’s Augusta Park development in Andover, where they might find the ‘Home of the Week’ ticks all the right ‘first property’ boxes.

First-time buyers depend on loans from parents

Over half (52%) of parents who have provided money to help their children get on the property ladder will get nothing back on their investment – that’s according to research into the state of the ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ by property portal FindaProperty.com.

Single 'headline' official house price index

A single 'headline' official house price index should be introduced to meet the needs of users, a review by the National Statistician has found.

Escape the rental trap with Redrow in Nuneaton

Owning a stylish new home in Nuneaton, with easy access to other towns and cities, is now more affordable thanks to Redrow.

Consumers see opportunity amid housing market uncertainty

Considerable uncertainty remains in the UK housing market, together with many contrasting views, but the public considers the best time to enter the housing market to be within the next year.

Worcester’s most expensive apartment on sale at Diglis Water

The wait is finally over; house builder Taylor Wimpey Midlands has just released for sale its biggest and most expensive apartment at Diglis Water, its NHBC award winning development in Worcester.

First time home buying made simple in Prescot

Attention first time buyers! Desperately want a place of your own and feel like you’re throwing money away on rent? Or are you trying to get onto the housing ladder but keep coming up against a brick wall?

Hitch a ‘LIFT’ onto the property ladder with Bellway

Such has been the uptake of buying a new home with ‘LIFT’, the Scottish Government’s 'Low-cost Initiative for First Time buyers', that award-winning housebuilder Bellway Homes has released the final properties available under this hugely successful shared equity programme at its Eastfields development in Carntyne.

Housing market slows further

Activity in the housing market continued to slow during November, with house prices slipping further, according to the latest RICS UK Housing Market survey.

Persimmon Homes hosts MPC visit

When representatives from the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) recently paid a visit to the Crystal Mead development in Stourbridge, Persimmon Homes, the company behind the scheme, used it as an ideal opportunity to talk about the difficulties local first time buyers continue to face in getting a foothold on the property ladder.