If you’re a renter, or have ever rented a home, you’ll already know the toe-curling truth about the sector – it’s expensive and involves, at least at the beginning of a lease, an awful lot of money changing hands. The other thing about renting is that it’s a wholly unregulated industry, which means anyone can [...]

It’s not unusual to glimpse Oscar winning actor Colin Firth wandering the swanky high street near his Chiswick home in well-heeled west London. But the star of The Kings Speech and Pride and Prejudice had a decidedly more suburban property start in life. It turns out that Firth, who is married to the Italian film producer [...]

We’d shell out more for a home if it had an extra bedroom, study or bathroom, but it turns out nearly half of us would also pay extra for a property with a good neighbour – £15,321 to be exact. As long working hours and technology force many of us to spend more time out [...]