Construction

New scheme launched to boost self build in the UK

Posted by on 23/01/2015 at 2:12 pm

  Published by Property Wire on Thursday, 22 January 2015   A new scheme that will enable more people to build or customise their own homes in the UK while also helping local authorities with land to develop has been launched. Designed to de-risk the process of obtaining mortgages for self built and custom built […]

House Prices: UK Faces Shortfall Of 750,000 Homes – Report

Posted by on 03/11/2011 at 8:59 pm

  Published by The Huffington Post on Tuesday, 25 October 2011   The government must find new sources of finance to fund the construction of 250,000 new homes per year, if it is to solve the UK’s housing crisis, a new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has said. England will have […]

England’s Most Expensive Home Facing Foreclosure

Posted by on 27/07/2011 at 2:00 pm

Published by Forbes Blogs on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 by Morgan Brennan   England’s most expensive home for sale has apparently just found a new owner: the bank. The lavish Updown Court in Windlesham, Surrey is in the process of being seized by the Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) after defaulting on a £50 […]

Luxury flats on the Thames

Posted by on 06/07/2011 at 3:51 pm

Published by The Telegraph on Monday, 04 July 2011 by Christopher Middleton   With Neo Bankside Thames-side living has certainly come a long way since Dickens’s day, says Christopher Middleton Forget the Côte d’Azur. You’d be hard put to find a more expensive piece of waterfront real estate in all of Europe than the stretch […]

Housing Building Falls To An 88-Year Low

Posted by on 21/02/2011 at 3:35 pm

  In the contrary to the previous post the fall in house construction can have balancing effect on price fall. They could even go up rather then fall. Again, read and make your own decisions.   Published by Sky News on Friday, 18 February 2011 by Goldie Momen Putrym   The number of properties built […]