Property

Political uncertainty and financial constraints have seen a halt to growth in London’s construction sector as sentiment turns negative in the capital, according to the RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey, Q1 2019. Growth in workloads has slowed or declined across almost all sectors of construction this quarter in London. At the headline level, 2% of respondents in London reported a fall (rather than rise) in workloads, the lowest net balance since November 2010. Workloads in public housing and...

The Devil's Stone Inn in Shebbear, Devon, is said to be one of the most haunted pubs in Britain

Burnley, County Durham and Blaenau Gwent have been revealed among the places in the UK where you could buy seven houses for the price of one Kensington flat. The Western Isles topped the table for the whole of the UK where the price of a Kensington flat would secure at least eight detached properties on the islands. In Liverpool and Sheffield you could also buy more than four detached homes for this cost. GetAgent took the current average house price...

Demand for offices and retail space in London continued to fall during the first quarter of the year, according to the Q1 2019 RICS UK Commercial Property Market Survey. Alongside this, anecdotal evidence suggests uncertainty over Brexit continues to deter investors and occupiers across the board. London’s retail sector continued to struggle during the first quarter of the year, with 65% more commercial surveyors in the region reporting a decline rather than rise in demand from occupiers for retail space....

Cleaning and renovating any property is a long and arduous process. It can be hard to lower the costs while increasing your return on investment. Thankfully, it doesn't have to consume all of your money or time. Here are six efficient tips that can help you improve your property while increasing its income potential. Turn it Into a Fixer Upper The average renovation costs less than $40,000 (£30,649). That doesn't mean all renovations cost the same though. Some renovations cost...

Croydon Hall in Somerset is being investigated after claims it is being used for swinger’s events where 20 to 55 year olds slip into body stockings at 10.30pm, venture to 'playrooms' and spill out into the gardens at 3am

Janet Marchant, 67, from Southend-on-Sea says her life has become a misery since a new taxi runway was opened at the bottom of her garden in 2017

Janine Renshaw-Beauchamp, from Cirencester, said the door had "always been colourful".

Just 25,000 landowners – typically members of the aristocracy and corporations – have control of half of the country, according to new data shared with the Guardian. The findings show that owners such as the Duke of Buccleuch, the Queen, several large grouse moor estates and the entrepreneur James Dyson own an “astonishingly unequal” proportion of the country. If land were distributed evenly across the entire population, each person would have almost an acre – an area roughly the size...