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Your Space — Historic homes
Today: 00:01
From this day forward, the phrase “museum chic” shall be added to our vocabulary. A group of six historic homes in London have opened their doors to the public and offer a first-hand peek at the best of vintage designs and retro decor — and all without having to use awful words such as “vintage” and “retro”.
Property News from Times Online
Growing great snowdrops Today: 00:01
Gardeners never have enough time, so shortcuts are a lifesaver. One effective shortcut is to divide snowdrops now, while they are in leaf. Look in the small ads of gardening magazines this month and you will see snowdrops for sale “in the green”, with fresh leaves and flowers. Maybe you once bought snowdrops dry, like a handful of black, leathery nuts; you planted them and only a few miserable specimens came up. What went wrong? What you were buying were small bulbs with naturally little reserves of moisture — bulbs that live in cool, moist woodland — which had been lifted, dried and shrunk in the sun to remove the soil and remains of leaf, and then packed dry for transit to stop them going mouldy. Does that sound like a recipe for success?
Property News from Times Online
Snowdrops are the stars of the spring show Today: 00:01
Snowdrops have put on a pretty good show this year. Or perhaps, after the harsh winter, they are that more welcome and noticeable as they finally signify that spring isn’t too far away.
Property News from Times Online
House Price News - FindaProperty.com Today: 00:00
Latest Prices Stories from FindaProperty.com
Find a Property House Prices
Buying & Selling Property - FindaProperty.com Today: 00:00
Latest Buying And Selling Stories from FindaProperty.com
Find a Property Buying and Selling
Property Market, Buying a house, Mortgages Fri 16:35
Search for property and find the latest property news from the Telegraph. Your source for buying and selling property, home improvements and mortgages
Telegraph: Property Market news
West Country house prices heading north Fri 16:35
Recovery sees West Country prices heading north again, says Anna Tyzack.
Telegraph: Property Market news
CML: Mortgages down by half in January Fri 12:15
About Property - News
BREAKING NEWSFLASH: AST threshold rise to be retrospective Fri 09:53
The threshold for Assured Shorthold Tenancies will rise to £100,000 on October 1. According to the National Landlords Association this morning, the rise will be made retrospective on existing tenancies, almost certainly back to April 6. The rise, from £25,000, will mean that thousands of contractual tenancies will now come under...
Estate Agent Today
Two Birmingham agents fined after HIPs probe Fri 07:20
A probe by Birmingham City Council trading standards has resulted in two agents being fined because they did not produce HIPs. Both agents have also been referred to the OFT. The investigation also claimed that 30% of HIPs were unsatisfactory. But the findings have come under fire because the HIPs were analysed...
Estate Agent Today
New agency jobs board to ban recruitment agencies Fri 07:18
A new online national jobs board for agents is set to launch at Easter. It will ban recruitment agencies, instead allowing bosses and candidates direct access to each other. Called PropertyJobsDirect, the board will advertise vacancies in residential sales, lettings, new homes, commercial agency and financial services. Vacancies will also be notified...
Estate Agent Today
Countrywide buys Sotheby's UK franchise for 25 years Fri 07:16
Countrywide, the UK’s largest estate agent, has bought the UK franchise of Sotheby’s International Realty. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will last 25 years and propel Countrywide into the realms of pricey global real estate. There is currently just one UK office, in London’s Mayfair, but Countrywide plans to grow...
Estate Agent Today
Battle between online and High Street that lies ahead Fri 07:14
This week, I was asked to say what I thought would happen with the property internet industry between now and 2015. This is what I wrote. But am I along the right lines? I’d be interested in your thoughts. Over the next five years, a battle royal will be fought between...
Estate Agent Today
All tenancy deposit schemes guaranteed, Parliament told Fri 07:11
All three of the tenancy deposit protection schemes have financial guarantees in place, a question and answer session in the Commons has revealed. A spokesman for Mydeposits confirmed that as part of the Government contract, Hamilton Frazer and the National Landlords Association had to sign a bond to the tune of...
Estate Agent Today
Homes are affordable – so where are the mortgages? Fri 07:07
Houses are more affordable now than since 2003, says property portal Zoopla. It says that because of lower house prices and mortgage rates, 58% of homes are now affordable by the average British earner, up from 34% three years ago. Over the past ten years, affordability levels reached their highest point in...
Estate Agent Today
Street wise Fri 00:01
It’s been a shaky start to the year, says Hometrack, the data company, which reports an increase of 0.3 per cent in prices in February. London continues to surge, with prices up by 0.7 per cent, the biggest monthly increase since themarket height in June 2007. The number of sales agreed has risen on average by just 10 per cent, compared with an average 30 per cent in February in each of the past eight years. Registrations are down (a rise of 8.3 per cent, compared with 14 per cent for the same month over the past eight years). A shortage of supply has pushed prices up but Hometrack warns that as more homes come on the market, they will sell for less than the asking price.
Property News from Times Online
Can retail-led development succeed once prices recover? Fri 00:01
The belief, widely touted in the Noughties, that “retail is therapy” has left hundreds of thousands of people in a morass of debt. But it is now emerging that it was not only individuals who were relying on the reinvigoration that, apparently, only shopping could produce. Town halls also became hooked on the transformative power of stores, viewing retail-led development as the way to regenerate a rundown city centre. There would be homes above the shops, plus libraries and offices that would bring jobs — happy ever after in a carrier bag.
Property News from Times Online
Brief encounter: Homeowner in the dark over the ‘right to light’ Fri 00:01
Q have received a letter from my neighbours’ solicitors saying that permission for one of my windows was granted under a “licence”, which has expired. My neighbours no longer agree to me having the window or any “right to light” over their land. I am puzzled by this, as my window is two storeys above my neighbours’ house. All I can see through it is their roof. Must I lose my view?
Property News from Times Online
Cool corners: where are the next Carnaby Streets? Fri 00:01
What precisely is a vibe and how do you get one? What drives culture? Where does business flourish? Why are some places interesting, others deadly dull? Why did Chelsea move to Hoxton? Why is Cleethorpes not a creative centre to rival Barcelona? Why are computers positively erotic in Palo Alto, but dreary in PC World?
Property News from Times Online
From this day forward, the phrase “museum chic” shall be added to our vocabulary. A group of six historic homes in London have opened their doors to the public and offer a first-hand peek at the best of vintage designs and retro decor — and all without having to use awful words such as “vintage” and “retro”.
Property News from Times Online
Growing great snowdrops Today: 00:01
Gardeners never have enough time, so shortcuts are a lifesaver. One effective shortcut is to divide snowdrops now, while they are in leaf. Look in the small ads of gardening magazines this month and you will see snowdrops for sale “in the green”, with fresh leaves and flowers. Maybe you once bought snowdrops dry, like a handful of black, leathery nuts; you planted them and only a few miserable specimens came up. What went wrong? What you were buying were small bulbs with naturally little reserves of moisture — bulbs that live in cool, moist woodland — which had been lifted, dried and shrunk in the sun to remove the soil and remains of leaf, and then packed dry for transit to stop them going mouldy. Does that sound like a recipe for success?
Property News from Times Online
Snowdrops are the stars of the spring show Today: 00:01
Snowdrops have put on a pretty good show this year. Or perhaps, after the harsh winter, they are that more welcome and noticeable as they finally signify that spring isn’t too far away.
Property News from Times Online
House Price News - FindaProperty.com Today: 00:00
Latest Prices Stories from FindaProperty.com
Find a Property House Prices
Buying & Selling Property - FindaProperty.com Today: 00:00
Latest Buying And Selling Stories from FindaProperty.com
Find a Property Buying and Selling
Property Market, Buying a house, Mortgages Fri 16:35
Search for property and find the latest property news from the Telegraph. Your source for buying and selling property, home improvements and mortgages
Telegraph: Property Market news
West Country house prices heading north Fri 16:35
Recovery sees West Country prices heading north again, says Anna Tyzack.
Telegraph: Property Market news
CML: Mortgages down by half in January Fri 12:15
About Property - News
BREAKING NEWSFLASH: AST threshold rise to be retrospective Fri 09:53
The threshold for Assured Shorthold Tenancies will rise to £100,000 on October 1. According to the National Landlords Association this morning, the rise will be made retrospective on existing tenancies, almost certainly back to April 6. The rise, from £25,000, will mean that thousands of contractual tenancies will now come under...
Estate Agent Today
Two Birmingham agents fined after HIPs probe Fri 07:20
A probe by Birmingham City Council trading standards has resulted in two agents being fined because they did not produce HIPs. Both agents have also been referred to the OFT. The investigation also claimed that 30% of HIPs were unsatisfactory. But the findings have come under fire because the HIPs were analysed...
Estate Agent Today
New agency jobs board to ban recruitment agencies Fri 07:18
A new online national jobs board for agents is set to launch at Easter. It will ban recruitment agencies, instead allowing bosses and candidates direct access to each other. Called PropertyJobsDirect, the board will advertise vacancies in residential sales, lettings, new homes, commercial agency and financial services. Vacancies will also be notified...
Estate Agent Today
Countrywide buys Sotheby's UK franchise for 25 years Fri 07:16
Countrywide, the UK’s largest estate agent, has bought the UK franchise of Sotheby’s International Realty. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will last 25 years and propel Countrywide into the realms of pricey global real estate. There is currently just one UK office, in London’s Mayfair, but Countrywide plans to grow...
Estate Agent Today
Battle between online and High Street that lies ahead Fri 07:14
This week, I was asked to say what I thought would happen with the property internet industry between now and 2015. This is what I wrote. But am I along the right lines? I’d be interested in your thoughts. Over the next five years, a battle royal will be fought between...
Estate Agent Today
All tenancy deposit schemes guaranteed, Parliament told Fri 07:11
All three of the tenancy deposit protection schemes have financial guarantees in place, a question and answer session in the Commons has revealed. A spokesman for Mydeposits confirmed that as part of the Government contract, Hamilton Frazer and the National Landlords Association had to sign a bond to the tune of...
Estate Agent Today
Homes are affordable – so where are the mortgages? Fri 07:07
Houses are more affordable now than since 2003, says property portal Zoopla. It says that because of lower house prices and mortgage rates, 58% of homes are now affordable by the average British earner, up from 34% three years ago. Over the past ten years, affordability levels reached their highest point in...
Estate Agent Today
Street wise Fri 00:01
It’s been a shaky start to the year, says Hometrack, the data company, which reports an increase of 0.3 per cent in prices in February. London continues to surge, with prices up by 0.7 per cent, the biggest monthly increase since themarket height in June 2007. The number of sales agreed has risen on average by just 10 per cent, compared with an average 30 per cent in February in each of the past eight years. Registrations are down (a rise of 8.3 per cent, compared with 14 per cent for the same month over the past eight years). A shortage of supply has pushed prices up but Hometrack warns that as more homes come on the market, they will sell for less than the asking price.
Property News from Times Online
Can retail-led development succeed once prices recover? Fri 00:01
The belief, widely touted in the Noughties, that “retail is therapy” has left hundreds of thousands of people in a morass of debt. But it is now emerging that it was not only individuals who were relying on the reinvigoration that, apparently, only shopping could produce. Town halls also became hooked on the transformative power of stores, viewing retail-led development as the way to regenerate a rundown city centre. There would be homes above the shops, plus libraries and offices that would bring jobs — happy ever after in a carrier bag.
Property News from Times Online
Brief encounter: Homeowner in the dark over the ‘right to light’ Fri 00:01
Q have received a letter from my neighbours’ solicitors saying that permission for one of my windows was granted under a “licence”, which has expired. My neighbours no longer agree to me having the window or any “right to light” over their land. I am puzzled by this, as my window is two storeys above my neighbours’ house. All I can see through it is their roof. Must I lose my view?
Property News from Times Online
Cool corners: where are the next Carnaby Streets? Fri 00:01
What precisely is a vibe and how do you get one? What drives culture? Where does business flourish? Why are some places interesting, others deadly dull? Why did Chelsea move to Hoxton? Why is Cleethorpes not a creative centre to rival Barcelona? Why are computers positively erotic in Palo Alto, but dreary in PC World?
Property News from Times Online
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