Property

House-hunters praying for divine inspiration can snap up a converted church - complete with its own stain glass window in the kitchen. The former church has just gone on the market as a three bedroom detached house with a £600,000 price tag. From the outside, the property is a beautiful, traditional church in the middle of the Worcestershire countryside near Malvern. The inside of the 19th century property, called Chancel House, has been converted into a contemporary living space. To...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent With property prices increasing rapidly, many are priced out of the market. Cash based savings are underperforming making it harder to save money. A new online Property ISA lets you invest in property from £100. Launched in the latter part of 2016, it has been awarded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) status for its first fund, bringing greater tax benefits to anyone who chooses to invest through...

Harry Potter's Diagon Alley may soon become a "lost relic" if plans to build a £400 million skyscraper are approved, conservation experts have warned. Leadenhall Market is used in the Potter films as the entrance to Diagon Alley while the wizard's pub The Leaky Cauldron is actually an opticians in the Victorian market. The proposed "glass lump" - a 36 storey development - would obscure the Grade II listed market's glass roof if it replaces the existing seven storey office...

A £200 million mansion described as "the eighth wonder of the world" has been unveiled. The staggering home in Los Angeles has 12 bedroom suites, 21 bathrooms, three kitchens, five bars and a 40-seat cinema. It also comes with an 85-foot Infinity swimming pool, a £25 million car collection and the helicopter used in the TV series Airwolf. The home, at 924 Bel Air Road, is the work of property developer Bruce Makowsky and at $250 million is one of...

A riverside home with a Michelin-starred restaurant on its doorstep is set to become one of the UK's most expensive council houses after it was put on the market for £750,000. Ferry House is a three-bedroom 'doer upper', which sits on the bank of the River Cam in Cambridge. It is in heart of the historic city centre and within half-a-mile of a mixture of ancient and modern buildings, colleges and shops. The double-fronted detached house had been leased to the...

House prices are continuing to rise but sales have slumped by one fifth - with transactions in London down by a staggering 40 per cent, it was announced yesterday. The latest figures from the Land Registry revealed the average house in England and Wales cost £217,928 in November. This represents an annual price increase of 6.7 per cent and a monthly increase of 1.1 per cent on October. However, figures show the number of completed house sales fell in September...

More than 16,000 new homes could be built across London on land occupied by unused or rundown garages owned by councils, according to new research. A study of local authority-owned lock-ups in the capital revealed 24 councils own a total of 53,640 - with 41 per cent empty or in disrepair. Demolishing them and replacing them with affordable one-bedroom flats could go someway to solving the London housing crisis where the average home now costs £475,000. The figures were revealed...

December is a busy time for PRs, many of whom struggle to cut through the noise with even the most worthy of campaigns. Which is why you have to salute the inventors of the Yule Log Clog. This Christmas, as families huddle together under the same roof, there is one housing component that all too often goes unnoticed; the drain pipes. With the average Brit consuming nearly 6,000 calories on Christmas Day alone (and a whopping 210g of fat) and more...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent Landlords are being warned to look out for tenants who go away over the Christmas holidays and sublet their rental properties without consent. Total Landlord Insurance has revealed a 14 per cent increase in the number of malicious and accidental damage claims received this year, as a direct result of illegal subletting, through holiday rental sites such as Airbnb. Airbnb, synonymous with the ‘sharing economy’ has seen...