United Kingdom

Why shops did not save our town centres

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:46:32 -0600

How regeneration of our inner cities failed to materialise and why developments have gone from boom to bust

Riverside property: Tide is high for seafaring buyers seeking waterfront bolt-holes

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:44:32 -0600

Riverside properties have held their value over the past couple of years, commanding an average of 30 per cent more than elsewhere, says Caroline McGhie.

First-time buyers 'may only be able to purchase a home in their 30s'

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:37:56 -0600

The comments of one housing expert could make gloomy reading for potential first-time buyers in their twenties.

City of London commercial property market tipped for resurgence

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:34:59 -0600

The City of London is set to lead the UK office market resurgence in 2010, a new survey suggests. According to the King Sturge: Office Markets 2010 report, the City of London is seeing increased demand for office space following the end of two years of instability caused by the global economic downturn.

Property prices in UK’s most expensive street soar, survey reveals

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:30:36 -0600

The average cost of a property in the most expensive street in England and Wales has soared by £300,000 during the past year, according to new research.

UK housing affordability hits 7-year high

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:28:55 -0600

A drop in both house prices and mortgage rates has improved the affordability of housing in the United Kingdom to its highest level since 2003.

Property: Get ready for the triple dip

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:38:32 -0600

UK property is likely to enter an unprecedented triple dip through 2011, say some of the sector’s leading managers and advisers, although the 2010 outlook has been upgraded. The total return is likely to halve to 6.6% between 2010/11, with capital values falling 1.5%, respondents told the Investment Property Forum’s long-term trend Consensus Forecast

What the king & queen of buy-to-let can tell us about UK house prices

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:49:18 -0600

Fergus and Judith Wilson, a couple of maths teachers from Kent, became the unlikely pin-ups of the buy-to-let industry during the property boom years.

UK retail investors pile into property

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:33:24 -0600

UK retail investors put £1.8bn (€2bn) into investment funds in January, the highest amount ever for the first month of a year, with continued enthusiasm for property funds fuelling the record inflows.

Buyers yet to warm to green home buzz

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:37:39 -0600

LONDON, March 5 (Reuters Life!) – The building industry wants to ease green home standards as the public balk at the 20 percent or higher costs of low-carbon homes, exhibitors told a major London conference this week.

City of London Developers Start Skyscrapers as Rents End Slide

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:34:23 -0600

March 9 (Bloomberg) -- Brookfield Asset Management Inc., owner of a stake in the U.K.’s tallest building, is about to start constructing an even higher tower in the City of London.

Meyer Bergman Pays $196 Million for 50% Stake in London Mall

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:32:46 -0600

(LONDON, ENGLAND) -- Believing the commercial real estate market in London is turning positive again, Meyer Bergman Group has bought a 50 percent stake in a London mall for 130 million pounds ($196 million USD) from Aviva (AV.L),

House prices could fall for several years

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:30:33 -0600

House prices may start rising again after last month's fall but the market will drop later in 2010 and this time the correction could last for several years, economists warn.

Second home ownership pushes up property prices in top spots in UK, research shows

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:32:49 -0600

Second home ownership drives up prices in the UK in areas with a high concentration of these types of property and the effect is not just limited to the popular south coast towns, research reveals.

House swapping in the UK

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:30:09 -0600

House swapping is a simple way of enjoying a city break closer to home, finds Jessie Hewiston.

Is East London's property market back on track?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:27:30 -0600

With the Olympics just two years away, this area of the capital is on an upward curve

UK housing recovery 'stronger than Europe'

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:22:22 -0600

The UK property market is ahead of many other European nations in its recovery from the recession, according to a new report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).

House building should be priority spending area, says BSHF

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:30:02 -0600

Housing needs to be "prioritised" as a key spending area for central government, the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) has argued.