10 February 2012 12:00 AM
Q. My fiancée and I have found the perfect home – almost. It has an electrical substation in a fenced-off area just behind the house. The place has been on the market for quite a while and I think the substation is putting buyers off.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
Home, as historian Witold Rybczynski puts it in his book Home, brings together the "meanings of house and of household, of dwelling and of refuge, of ownership and of affection". Somewhere, this vision turned into a two-bed edge-of-town starter box: but nonetheless, the noble sentiment stands. As a campaigning exhibition at RIBA in London confirms, Britain has led the way in home-ownership and, to an extent, in good quality mass residential architecture.
09 February 2012 06:42 PM
We hunt out the best places on offer
03 February 2012 12:00 AM
Lena Corner reports on her struggle to turn her three-bed into a 2012 money-spinner.
03 February 2012 12:00 AM
Q. I own two homes but am selling the main one. Can you advise how long I have to wait before selling the second one without having to pay capital gains tax on it?
01 February 2012 07:40 AM
House prices dipped by 0.2 per cent in January, as analysts predicted that the market could tilt further in buyers' favour over the coming months.
23 January 2012 12:00 AM
20 January 2012 12:00 AM
A warm welcome, good food and a fine ale can make living in a commuter village about more than just motorway links and train connections, says Ruth Bloomfield
20 January 2012 12:00 AM
The design diary is filling up with new shows faster than you can knock up an Ikea storage solution. As this year's season kicks off, Lena Corner gives an insider's view of bagging a bargain.
10 January 2012 01:12 AM
The number of sellers putting their house on the market rose for the third successive month during December, but vendors may need to cut their prices to do a deal, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Its latest monthly survey, published today, suggests sellers returned in time for the new year, with London leading the way.
09 January 2012 12:00 AM
Websites lure would-be tenants into paying a deposit on properties that do not exist
06 January 2012 08:47 AM
The UK's average house price fell by 1.3% in 2011 after a monthly decline of 0.9% between November and December, lender Halifax said today.
06 January 2012 12:00 AM
It's not all documents on the dining table or conference calls over the cornflakes, as Huma Qureshi finds out
02 January 2012 12:00 AM
Council tenants who sublet their homes face prosecution and possible prison terms in a blitz on abuse of social housing. High earners could also be forced to pay the market rate for continuing to live in their council homes.
30 December 2011 12:29 PM
Nine out of 13 regions in the UK recorded a house price rise over 2011, in a year of contrasting fortunes ranging from a 5.4% increase in London to an 8.9% drop in Northern Ireland, Nationwide said today.
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