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Spain is taking dramatic action against holiday rental platforms like Airbnb as locals struggle to find affordable homes. The Spanish government wants to remove nearly ...

Until recently, Tors Road was the only remaining road in the small but busy coastal village of Lynmouth, North Devon, which had no parking restrictions ...

It is all very well turning to certain websites that promise to find us the best prices on home insurance, but when all the options ...

The Chinese housing market went into crisis in 2020 following the government's introduction of a strict debt policy. The sudden decision to stop the flow ...

The value of homes sold in England during 2023 was around half that of 2022, according to an analysis by eXp UK, the platform for ...

Cumberland Council has started a process of enforced purchase on a property that has not been lived in for twenty years. The body has been ...

It is estimated that every month the average homeowner spends an extra £100, and 12.6 hours of their time, running and maintaining a property that ...

Between 1996 and 1998, Barclays Bank and Bank of Scotland offered a type of mortgage known as the Shared Appreciation Mortgage. The product was interest ...

Analysis by the BBC reveals that the UK has not yet imposed fines of up to £1 billion on foreign companies for violating a landmark ...

A British couple have swapped the hectic nine-to-five of city life and their Manchester property for the more relaxed lifestyle of a historic village in ...

Greenwich Council has enraged the residents of a London estate by imposing a blanket ban on garden ornaments, benches and pot plants, even sending in ...

Online estate agent, Purplebricks, has been purchased for £1 in a rescue deal by rival estate agent, Strike, after the company claimed to be just ...

It is the policy of most Housing Associations to remove floor coverings between tenancies, often leaving bare floors in its place at the start of ...

The collapse of a UK property and construction firm has left investors out of pocket to the tune of £30 million. The company has been ...

Bristol City Council is supporting a local charity to help tackle the local housing shortage, in conjunction with the Charity, We Can Make, which is ...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that thousands of households could be forced to default on their mortgages over the next two years. The ...

Housing developers and local councils have been warned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) that a lack of capacity in the power network may limit ...

The Financial Conduct Authority failed to act on warnings that a Manchester-based investment scheme  used suspect techniques between 2016 and 2018 to sell to ordinary ...

Wealthy property buyers have bought nearly three billion pounds worth of property in London in the first half of 2022, according to Savills. Among these, ...

A  redevelopment contract with a Chinese property developer worth one billion pounds has been terminated by the Greater London Authority after years of inactivity. Advanced ...

Around 500 new homes on two sites are being built in Cambridge in a partnership between the council and property developer, the Hill Group. Around ...

This month, interest rates rose to a 13-year high of 1%, as the Bank of England increased the Bank Rate in a bid to tackle ...

Since the pandemic, Canada's housing market has suffered from a low supply of available homes and soaring housing costs that have increased by more than ...

Mortgage lender, Halifax, has said house price growth is likely to slow down "considerably" over the next year, despite the likelihood that housing supply will ...

The failure to properly serve legal documents on behalf of landlords has potentially left Purplebricks open to compensation claims. Since its set up in 2012, ...

A recent study has concluded that the rich have benefited most from the house price boom, in particular Londoners. Research by the Resolution Foundation and Abrdn ...

Home affordability is under more strain, as an analysis of figures released by the government reveals the number of second homes in England undergoing change ...

A home owner in Leicester has accused his 'angry builder' of demolishing his property with a digger. The five bedroom property at 26 Guildford Road ...

In 2019, the Withernsea Pier and Promenade Association, representing the town of Withernsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, asked for help in getting the ...

Some people are looking for a new property to buy. Others are simply interested in keeping an eye on the local property market in our ...

As city-dwellers seek to move out of the capital towards a better life in the country, it seems that foreign investors are following suit. After ...

The UK's largest new home builder has reported revenues of £1.84 billion for the first six months of 2021, higher than the record revenues the ...

The UK is not the only country suffering from less affordable, high quality housing - in fact, many of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and ...

The well established plans of a local community group to build affordable homes have been thwarted, after a property developer gazumped them to purchase the ...

The village of Kenton in South Devon sits on the doorstep of the impressive Powderham Castle, on the banks of the River Exe south of ...

Fans of television’s Grand Designs will remember the enormous, modernist ‘light house’ that was built to replace a family’s North Devon clifftop family home – ...

As the UK moves steadily out of lockdown, businesses are reconsidering the long-term ongoing working arrangements of their employees. Many employers have found it a ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published its new 'manifesto' prior to the  English local elections in May 2021. RICS represents over 80,000 ...

The pandemic has suited some businesses rather better than others, but one estate agency has found itself on a red alert list, thanks to its ...

Gwynedd Council has announced it will increase its council tax premium for second home owners and long-term empty property in the 2021/2022 financial year. The ...

England and Wales are enjoying a 12-year high in the number of homes that are 'flipped'. Flipping property is the term used for properties that ...

Homeowners in Bradford have been advised to take legal action against their conveyancing solicitors for negligence, after the new build homes they bought in 2014/15 ...

Mirroring many other rural communities around the UK, Islanders in the Hebrides and Skye are becoming fearful of being priced out of their local housing ...

The government has announced a stamp duty holiday until 31st March 2021, with property news sites widely reporting that, just a fortnight after the announcement, ...

The government has been called on to instigate the reforms to estate agency that were detailed in a report by the Regulation of Property Agents ...

The energy regulator Ofgem has forced the UK's largest independent energy supplier, Ovo Energy, to pay £8.9 million to a voluntary redress scheme to help ...

In May 2019, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said the number of empty homes in England in October 2018 was 634,453, ...

Home owners in Kent fear their new home is unsafe after they were awoken in the middle of the night with a ‘massive crash’ as ...

A 'property bonanza' of second homes sales has given 160 MPs a windfall of £42 million, paid for in part by taxpayers. Until the expenses ...

The latest national English Housing Survey 2017/18 headline report has been published. This is the first release of data from the annual survey that will ...

Estate agent Countrywide has received a £215,000 fine from HMRC for failing to ensure that policies, controls and procedures regarding money laundering are upheld within ...

Basildon Borough Council is planning to sell a five acre parcel of vacant land for £1 to a 26-year old property developer who plans to ...

Estate agents' 'To Let' boards could be banned from some areas of Lincoln, after the government gave the City Council permission to prohibit them. Complaints ...

Negative publicity has dogged the highly profitable Help to Buy market, and the housing minister, James Brokenshire, is reviewing the continued inclusion of new build ...

NHS Property Services, which manages around 10% of the National Health Service’s estate, was set up less than six years ago, to run NHS properties ...

Planning permission was originally granted at South Quay Parkside, Barry Waterfront, on condition that no properties would be occupied until a range of District Centre ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has responded to industry reports that ‘down valuations’ are making it difficult for buyers to obtain a mortgage. Estate ...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) estimates there to be around 30,000 ‘mortgage prisoners’ in the UK, and a further 120,000 home buyers tied to a ...

New official data released by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government show that 62.6% of the 23.9 million homes in England are now ...

Company Voluntary Arrangements (CVAs) are being abused, according to the British Property Federation (BPF), as House of Fraser has become the latest retailer to restructure ...

The number of registered sex offenders has risen by over a third in England and Wales over the last five years with more than 40,000 ...

The advertising rules regulator, Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) has criticised the industry for ‘repeat problems’ in advertising.  It has called for immediate action and ...

The FTSE 100 company, Legal and General, has entered the retirement property market in a direct and quick way by buying the Inspired Villages Group ...

While recent changes in Stamp Duty Land Tax will benefit the first time buyer, making lower-priced property more affordable, the tax will further increase government revenue on more ...