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Buyers Will Be Forced To Borrow Less Under New Mortgage Rules.

Homebuyers will now find it harder to obtain a mortgage once rules planned by the Financial Services Authority come into force. Homebuyers will find it harder to qualify because the rules will become more stringent. The way that these will be imposed is... Read >

Midsommer Murders House Up For Sale.

The house featured in the first ever episode of Midsommer Murders is up for sale for a cool £2million. Black Park Cottage is a 400 year old house and was a home and office of the Black Park at this time. Black Park is 530 acres of pine woods, heathland ... Read >

Relaxed Planning Rules Allows Newquay To Revive Itself Once More.

Fistral beach in Newquay is one of the most glorious places in the UK and it would seem that if you were house hunting along Pentire Road, the road that runs alongside it, you would not have much choice. This has not been the case over the last three yea... Read >

Prince Charles Palace Plans in Eco Village Receives Criticism.

Prince Charles’s plans for a carbon copy of Buckingham Palace have been thrown out by locals opposing the designs. His architects designed the new homes which are to be built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The plans were for a grand crescent wh... Read >

The Cheapest Streets In Britain.

Anyone wanting to buy a cheap house in Britain only has to look as far as Burnley. It has some of the cheapest streets in the UK, twelve in fact of out of the top twenty cheapest in Britain. The Lancashire town has properties for sale at just £32,400, ... Read >

The £100million Bishops Avenue Mansion.

The Bishops Avenue as often known as Millionaires’ Row, it is situated in Hampstead and houses many of the oligarchs and Saudi Royal Family. Now one house is hoping to top all of the other houses in the street by commanding a price tag of £100million. H... Read >

Some of Britain’s Best Villages.

Chew Magna in Somerset has topped the poll of the best village to live in, carried out by estate agents Savill’s. It is surrounded by rolling hills and its history goes as far back as Saxon times. However even in the 21st century it is still as popular ... Read >

Sitcom Outnumbered Star’s Home For Sale.

The son in the sitcom Outnumbered found life imitating art after his own home went up for sale, just as the family home did in the third series. Tyger Drew-Honey plays the eldest son in the sitcom and his Surrey home in real life is on the market now tha... Read >

Couple’s Home That Used To Be A Public Lavatory.

Jon Du Croz and his partner Emma wanted to build their own home in Oxfordshire and set about looking for the ideal plot of land. Jon admits that ideally he wanted a piece of virgin land but realised that these were few and far between. So with his prefe... Read >

Could This Be Sir Alex’s New Home On Anglesey?

Rumours are actively circulating around Anglesey that Sir Alex Ferguson is looking for a property to buy on the island. He would be in company if he did as Peter Crouch, Michael Owen and Nicky Butt have high end holiday lodges at Plas Coch. This is a lu... Read >

The £600million Apartment Block In Kensington.

There is a huge hole in Kensington where two hotels used to stand but this is about to change with the involvement of a Middle East backed developer. The site is on Victoria Road and overlooks Kensington Gardens and will house nearly 100 new apartments i... Read >

Savvy Developers Now Build Green Villages.

The property industry has been very gloomy in the last couple of years since the economic downturn, however this is not the case now for some savvy developers who are building green villages and towns which do not cost the earth to live in. The co... Read >

Building Plans of Model Eva Herzigova Spark Outrage In Chelsea.

Model Eva Herzigova is becoming more and more unpopular with her neighbours in a street in Chelsea due to her plans for renovation work at her property. The five storey 19th century house is to be completed renovated leaving just the facade of the house ... Read >

The House That Costs £75 A Year To Heat.

Geoff and Kate Tunstall are retired teachers and wanted to build their own home. Their idea was to build a bungalow in the grounds of their Yorkshire home but instead they have created a house which is the one of the first of its kind in the UK. The cou... Read >

Traveller Eviction On Green Belt Land.

Last Monday an eviction was approved in regards to 400 people illegally living on a Europe’s largest traveller camp. Basildon Council’s decision means that the families living at Dale Farm in Crays Hill in Essex will only have 28 days to leave the site. ... Read >