Here’s an interesting graph from the latest Hometrack survey. What it shows is the recovery in house prices over recent months.
The proportion of the asking price achieved rose to 92.4 per cent in September from a recent low of 88.3 per cent.

This is confirmed by our own research – our recently launched House Prices & [...]

If you’ve been watching the current Phillipe Starck thingy on the box (Design For Life) you’ll know that designers … well … they can be a bit precious, a bit daft, and occasionally quite mad.

Some of the ideas pitched by the students beggar belief, but none of them can quite match the antic capers of [...]

The Property: The ruined remains of a Grade II* listed country house

The Place: Chepstow, Monmouthshire
The Price: £2,000,000

The Pain: When we say ruined, we mean ruined: the place is a roofless echoing shell. It is, however, a Grade II* listed echoing shell, which means if you do take it on you’ll have to work closely [...]

First off, apologies for that headline … I have no excuse aside from the fact that it was marginally better than “Home-buyers will be singing in the terraces” (see what I did there … terra … oh forget it).

If association football is not your thing, look away now because we’re talking here, my friends, about [...]

Here’s an interesting table showing FindaProperty.com’s hotspots in August.
The ranking is based on the most enquiries (sales and rent) generated per area, which, I think, is a more genuine measure of actual activity than, say, the number of pages or properties clicked on.
City centres and London dominate the list, and Bristol also seems to be [...]

If you use Google today you’ll notice the current Google Doodle features a spaceship hovering over an English village – H.G. Wells was born on 21 September 1866 and the image is a reference to one of his most famous books: The War of the Worlds.

I’ve always found it mildly amusing that extraterrestrial commuters in [...]

This week’s graph comes from our shiny new House Prices & Affordability Index, the first edition of which was launched today.
What it shows is divergence in the marketplace: house prices rising at the upper end and falling at first-time buyer level.
Why the two-tier trend? Because those at the higher end – either cash rich or [...]

This week’s linear lovely comes from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors’ latest lettings market survey.
What’s it telling us? Basically that the decline in rents is slowing.  Or in their own words:
“A slowdown in the number of properties coming on to the rental market saw the rate at which rents decreased ease slightly in the [...]

The Property: Grade II listed detached oast
The Place: Tenterden Road, Rolvenden, Kent.
The Price: £395,000 OIEO
Click pics for full details
The Pain: Oasts are not the easiest things in the world to convert, and a listed oast will inevitably come with its own challenges.
This one will need to have all the utilities connected. It is, says the [...]

Our research team has just sent round some pretty amazing figures: in August the number of visitors to FindaProperty.com passed the three million mark.
The actual total was 3.1 million, a whopping 34.2 per cent year-on-year increase, and the highest monthly total since records began way back in 1997.
That means that in August one of you [...]