This week’s graph comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index.
It shows that the two-tier market continues – prices on the rise for home movers (values are up seven per cent year-on-year) but falling for first-time buyers (down 4.1 per cent on last year).
Why the difference?
Those at the upper end of the market have [...]

We’ve just launched a new feature on the site which we think you’ll really like. It’s called My Places, and this is how it works.
What?
My Places allows you to check how many miles a property listed on the site is from up to 5 places that are important to you, such as your [...]

Psssst! Fancy a sneak preview of the new Apprentice house?
Well, come with us, fellow fans, to Bloomsbury’s Bedford Square, and catch a glimpse of the snazzy Georgian townhouse where next year’s contestants will soon be ensconced:

Suitably impressive exterior, huh?  And here’s a list of what we think are Potentially Fabulous Features (in TV terms):
Outstanding Master Bedroom:
Cue the catfights [...]

We like a nice homely shed here at Winging It, but we’re also partial to a bit of upmarket architectural eye-candy, so imagine our delight when we discovered that some genius has created a super cool, Kevin McCloud approved … shed for living!
We haven’t been this thrilled by a design ’solution’ since eglu applied a bit [...]

I came across a property the other day advertised with “duel aspect windows” (sic).
I was immediately put in mind of the incident when Lord Sash-Windowe famously called out Major P.V.C. Casement for suggesting he’d defenestrated his wife …

Both parties were injured, the local constabulary was called and the case eventually went to court where the [...]

In last week’s Brighton-focused Five to View, I featured a pea-green house as the first property.
Granted, it might be a shade too lurid to suit all tastes, but I think it’s a great example of the many brightly coloured homes that are dotted around Brighton.
Coincidentally, a couple of days later I read a Telegraph article [...]

You should never underestimate the power of a photo when marketing a property.
But sometimes discretion should definitely be the better part of valour and you really, really, really should just upload an ‘awaiting image’ pic, especially when the property you’re promoting looks like this:

or this:

or for sheer bizarro, how about:

Bear? What bear? I can’t see [...]

The Property: The Old Girls School
The Place: Butterwick, Boston, Lincolnshire
The Price: £199,950 (Guide)

The Pain: This is Grade II listed and quite old (c.1859), and as a consequence you’ll have to tread carefully with your conversion plans. Any building this old has the potential to throw up costly surprises.
The Gain: It’s a charming old Victorian structure [...]

You may remember that we reported the case of Adrian and Gail Wallbank a few years ago – the couple who were being asked to pay £230,000 towards the repair of St John the Baptist church in Warwickshire.

The bill came to them because they had inherited a farm that included ‘rectorial land’ (land that once [...]

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 & [...]