Property Market
Lemonade Building quenches investment thirst
It could be time for buy-to-let investors to drink in the sweet taste of success at The Lemonade Building, the final phase of Redrow’s popular Barking Central venture in East London.
Brits prefer life on the avenue
Merry Meeting, Sleigh Crescent or even Cold Christmas Lane are the perfect seasonal addresses, yet UK homeowners would most prefer to live on an Avenue all year round than anywhere else according to a poll on reallymoving.com, the UK’s leading provider of online quotes for home-moving services.
Housing affordable for first-time buyers in four in ten areas
In 2009, the average price paid by a first-time buyer was affordable for someone on average earnings in nearly four in ten (39%) of local authority districts, according to this year's Halifax First-Time Buyer Annual Review.
A real country house rescue in Kenley
While Ruth Watson has been waging an on-screen war to save the nation’s country houses from ruin, a home counties niche developer has been undertaking a ‘country house rescue’ of its own.
2009 a buoyant year for UK’s prime property markets
The UK’s Prime property markets have had a buoyant year, with Yorkshire and the Humber, London and the South East the top regional performers according to the new Primelocation.com Prime Index.
House prices up 5.9% over 2009
House prices rose 5.9% in 2009, according to figures from the Nationwide Building Society.
Winners and losers from the stamp duty holiday
As the end of the stamp duty holiday looms on properties sold for between £125,000 and £175,000, the CML has looked at which regions have benefitted most and least from the temporary concession.
Cash no longer king says LSL Property Services
Cash buyers are losing their grip on the property market as mortgage-backed house purchases rally, according to LSL Property Services PLC, owners of the second largest estate agency group in the UK with national brands Your Move and Reeds Rains.
Dream homes within reach at Great Hall Park
Taylor Wimpey is keeping buyers in Ellesmere Port moving thanks to two incentives at its recently-launched Great Hall Park development.
November house prices up 0.9 per cent
The November data from Land Registry's flagship House Price Index shows a positive monthly house price change of 0.9 per cent, which is the sixth month in a row in which the movement has been above nought per cent.
Free repossession advice helps more than 33,000 people
Thousands of families have been able to celebrate the Christmas holidays having been helped by the government's Housing Possession Court Duty Schemes to avoid eviction from their homes.
Central London property sales buck seasonal trend
December has been unseasonally busy reports property consultants Cluttons.
Exclusive Berkshire estate offered to market
Knight Frank is offering the unique opportunity to acquire the remaining 20 apartments and the freehold interest in the exclusive Charters estate in Sunninghill, near Ascot, Berkshire, for a minimum guide price of £27.5million.
Streets of West London are most expensive
Wycombe Square in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is the most expensive street in England and Wales with an average property price of £5,401,447, according to latest research from Halifax.
Country house prices show positive growth
Prime country house prices rose on average by almost 2.3% in the fourth quarter of the year and are now just 2.6% lower than at the beginning of 2009, according to the Knight Frank Prime Country House Index.