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Wednesday 4th July 2007
Green home credentials 'put on standby' The spread of integrated home entertainment systems will hinder efforts to cut energy consumption in Britain, a new report says. The Energy Saving Trust (EST) believes the proliferation of devices...
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Wednesday 4th July 2007
Property growth 'slowing' House price growth is expected to continue slowing during the rest of 2007, Halifax has said. Its monthly house price index shows growth of just 0.4 per cent in June, the second successive rise of... |
Tuesday 3rd July 2007
Public still holding out against Hips Nearly half of all homebuyers in the UK say that they would distrust the contents of a Home Information Pack (Hip), according to research from Saga Home Insurance. As many as 47 per cent of proper... |
Monday 2nd July 2007
London rents 'booming' The number of people renting properties in prime central London locations is approaching record levels, a new survey has revealed. Knight Frank says that the annualised rental rate in the capital ... |
Thursday 28th June 2007
London sales 'driving' house prices Sales of London property are continuing to drive up house prices elsewhere in the country, according to the government's Land Registry. The average price of a home in the capital reached £335... |
Thursday 28th June 2007
Flood victims warned over "cowboy" builders People whose homes have been damaged by this week's flooding in England and Wales have been warned to be on their guard against cowboy builders. Unscrupulous individuals will be seeking to exploit... |
Thursday 28th June 2007
House prices "bounce back" UK house prices "bounced back" in June after climbing by 1.1 per cent, Nationwide revealed today. The latest property price survey by the building society showed the annual rate of house... |
Monday 25th June 2007
BLT 'greed' forces FTBs out Paul Diggory, vice president of the Chartered Institute of Housing, has said that buy to let landlords are forcing first time buyers out of the housing market by buying up quantities of stock. Spe... |
Monday 25th June 2007
Brown promises to address home affordability Gordon Brown has pledged that one of his priorities will be to address the shortage of affordable housing in the UK as soon as he becomes prime minister. Speaking on BBC One's Politics Show, Mr Br... |
Monday 25th June 2007
Persimmon sees 'balanced' property market Recent interest rate rises have balanced out the UK's housing market, construction firm Persimmon says. The Bank of England has raised the base rate three times so far this year to its current rat... |
Saturday 23rd June 2007
Council tax growth 'outstrips inflation three to one' The average council tax bill has risen at three times the rate of retail price index (RPI) inflation over the past decade, it has been claimed. Halifax building society says that since 1997 the av... |
Saturday 23rd June 2007
Middle classes 'gentrifying' market towns Middle class people buying second properties in English market towns are having a profound and inexorable effect on the local area, new research claims. Although second home ownership abroad is of... |
Friday 22nd June 2007
House sales match peak of 1980s boom Britain's property sales reached their highest number in 2006/07 since 1988, the year in which the property market took a nose dive, new figures show. Statistics from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)... |
Friday 22nd June 2007
Watchdog launches housebuilding study The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced a surprise review of the UK's housebuilding industry. A statement from the watchdog today said it had launched the study amid potential concerns from... |
Friday 22nd June 2007
TUC calls for more social housing Young workers will not be able to live in their own homes unless the government authorises more social housing construction, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) believes. The government currently plan... |
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