Interesting research about tenants and repairs. Also a surprise warning for landlords! The research also highlighted that just a third of tenants would rather deal with a landlord than a letting agent and one in six tenants have experienced bad landlords in the past....

The prospect of a general election has minimal impact on the property market, according to a new report released by global property firm CBRE. It is commonly reported that the property market slows in the run up to a general election as property purchasers and sellers...

Downsizing – the act of trading down from a detached house to a bungalow or semi-detached property – has become increasingly popular for many adults in the UK and it can be a shrewd method of making additional money. Lloyds recently declared that last year’s average...

Analysis by a high end estate agent has revealed that 2.5% of homes in London would be affected by a planned ‘mansion tax’ on properties worth more than £2 million. To measure how this impact on the capital equates to the rest of the country, Knight Frank examined ten...

This week houses made of straw went on the open market for the first time. A row of seven straw houses in Bristol have now become the first to secure building certification which makes them eligible for a standard mortgage. The properties, consisting of two and...

Over one million new homes could be built over the next decade if each of the 353 councils in England built just one garden village of 3,000 new homes. This is the finding of a new report by think tank Policy Exchange which argues that a future government should...

UK house prices increased by 9.8% between January and December 2014, according to the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) latest House Price Index published yesterday. The new figures represent a slight decrease on those from the previous month, which showed house...

Swapping lunch out for a packed lunch is the most common sacrifice made by prospective home buyers when saving for a deposit, research has found. The study, carried out by Housing Association Family Mosaic, surveyed 2,000 people who are currently saving for a house...

A group of pensioners claim they have been “ripped off” by Severn Trent after paying an ‘unnecessary’ water charge for decades. Residents in the Rectory Close estate in Crick have been paying the water company to channel surface water to the sewers for a number of...

Landlords, we have some good news – you can now take advantage of the lowest Buy To Let mortgage rates in history. Research from Moneyfacts.co.uk has confirmed that the average cost of both fixed and variable borrowing is falling, with the average fixed rate BTL deal...

The number of repossessions fell to 21,000 in 2014 – 26% fewer than the 28,900 in 2013, and the lowest number since 2006, according to data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders.At 0.19%, the repossession rate was also lower in 2014 than at any time since 2006. Out of...