Interest Rates rise again; Housing Report Dec '06; price of new apartments falls; 67% of investors plan escape to the sun; views on rates rise; HIPs; Starck ligts up Leeds

Starck lights up Leeds

Lumiere, a ground breaking new mixed-used development comprising two stunning glass towers in Leeds city centre is launched to great acclaim.

Shock As Interest Rates Rise Again!

The Bank of England has raised UK interest rates to 5.25% from 5% in an effort to curb inflation.

Novice Landlords offered tribunal help

More than a million households in the UK now live in buy-to-let properties. This figure is set to rise by 2-3% a year over the next decade, meaning that novice landlords will need more help.

Housing Report Dec 06

Average house prices grew by 0.3% over December, down from 0.6% in November according to the latest monthly housing market survey by Hometrack, the housing information business.

He wants a house. She wants a home.

The views of men and women can often be so different that arguing on viewing trips and the eventual falling through of a sale is all too common.

HIPs Hype

HIPs are far from dead and are still very much on track. Sq Ft reveals more...

No Winter Chill

NOVEMBER 2006: NO WINTER CHILL FOR HOUSE PRICES

Views on Rate Rise

Views on interest rate rise to 5%...

67% plan escape to the sun

Two thirds of Brits plan to spend their retirement abroad, according to a new survey.

Small building firms fight to stay in the market

Volume housebuilders overtake smaller developers in the race to build homes.

Price of new apartments falls

Despite the current overall shortage of properties on the market, the price of new apartments fell in June, suggesting that builders are being wrongly forced to build too many apartments and not enough houses.

Nottingham tops UK poll

Pickfords, the UK’s largest moving company, launches the results of its annual Move Monitor, which tracks around 19,000 home moves each year. Nottingham is top of the city hotspots for the first time.

Key workers rely on renting

Key workers are struggling to get on the property ladder confirms the annual Halifax Key Worker Housing Review.