Deals for homes worth more than £750,000 are up 7% in June over last year with more properties on market Sales of expensive UK country houses rose in June, signalling a possible recovery in demand as buyers are tempted out by lower...
Move hopes to push lenders to offer more high loan-to-income mortgages and help 36,000 buyers on to housing ladder Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has rolled out looser mortgage rules that policymakers hope will help...
Watchdog found evidence of information sharing linked to prices but firms have not admitted any wrongdoing Seven housebuilders have agreed to pay £100m to affordable housing schemes after the UK competition watchdog found evidence that...
Expected interest rate cuts could support growth after fall in first-time buyers since end of stamp duty cut The housing market was flat in June as signs emerge that the UK jobs market may be “softening”, one of Britain’s biggest...
Number looking to move to urban centres up 16% in first five months of 2025 compared with same period in 2015 With the rise of home working and surging house prices in many urban areas, one might have assumed that British cities had lost...
Increase in stamp duty has helped weaken demand, as average price drops by 0.8% in June, says Nationwide Business live – latest updates House prices in the UK fell the most in more than two years last month as demand weakened after the...
Offshore wind power boom helps push profit from land and property to more than double what it was two years ago King Charles is set to receive official annual income of £132m next year, after his portfolio of land and property made more...
Real estate company alleges that the ‘Zillow ban’ prevents rivals from competing against it The real estate brokerage company Compass has filed a lawsuit against Zillow over its policy to ban private home listings. In a filing with the...
More than 53,000 mortgages have been completed using scheme, which encourages lenders to offer up to 95% loans 100% mortgages are back – will they work for you? A government scheme to encourage UK lenders to offer 95% mortgages is...
Average property price drops 0.4% month on month in May to £296,648, Halifax says Business live – latest updates UK house prices suffered a steeper than expected fall last month and the biggest quarterly drop in value in almost a year,...
Housing associations want chancellor to class social housing as critical infrastructure to allow for extra spending Housing bosses representing 1.5m social homes across England will press Rachel Reeves to reclassify affordable housing as...
Ministers understood to be drawing up amendments to bill to try to head off threatened rebellion by two dozen MPs Labour MPs are planning to rebel over the planning and infrastructure bill after constituents raised concern that it...
News Corp’s REA Group, behind real estate listings site realestate.com.au, is being investigated by the consumer watchdog amid complaints over its market dominance Australia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email...
Policy will eventually right itself, adds Mark Preston, who heads Duke of Westminster’s property group Donald Trump’s global tariff trade war is “nonsense and stupid” and will damage every country in the world, including the US, the boss...
Thanks to ‘placemaking’, thriving communities are hollowing out, to be replaced by luxury apartments and expensive restaurants Teachers at Charlotte Sharman school in south London’s Elephant and Castle are on strike this week ,...
Councils in England will get powers to impose ‘delayed home penalty’ under latest government proposals Developers face tens of thousands of pounds in fines if they slow down housebuilding under new powers being granted to English...