Take a look around the luxurious pad of one of the country’s leading sports stars… Former boxing light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan is selling his £1.5million mansion in Lostock, Bolton. The plot, close to the boxer’s hometown, comprises of two properties including a six-bedroom detached property AND a four-bedroom bungalow. The 3500ft2 mansion, which the former I’m A Celebrity camp mate brought back …
There are hundreds of thousands of incredible homes showcased on Rightmove every day and we love to shout about the quirkiest properties we find. So to round off 2019, we’ve scoured the website high and low to pick five of our favourite and just downright unusual homes of the year. From a Victorian bathhouse that’s been converted into an indoor …
Estate agents come near the bottom of the latest ‘trusted’ professions poll. But there’s bad news for EYE – journalists are one place closer to the bottom. So, you probably shouldn’t trust a word we say … but the new MORI veracity poll shows politicians are the least trusted profession, coming bottom of the table. Estate agents are trusted by …
There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the same month in 2018 according to UK Finance. On the downside, however, there was a fall in the number of homes being bought by landlords. Some 29,100 new first-time buyer mortgages were handed out in September, a modest 1.6 …
Labour drops Right to Buy plans Labour has dropped its plans to allow private tenants to buy their homes at a discount. Press reports over the weekend indicated that the policy was now regarded as too complicated to be included in the party’s manifesto for the December 12 General Election. Two months ago Chancellor John McDonnell told the Financial Times …
The Government has confirmed that it has no plans to introduce a national register of private landlords. It has not even undertaken an assessment of the proposal, made in a report back in January when the Chartered Institutes of Housing and of Environmental Health jointly called for a register. The two organisations said that such a register would make it …
A letting agency has denied that ‘highly toxic’ gas is leaking into one of its tenant’s homes in Worcester. Leaders has said that it is confident that all safety procedures have been followed and that the home is both safe and compliant to gas safety standards. The tenant, Julie Parker, 58, has told a local newspaper that she believes an …
ARLA has slammed Labour’s intention to introduce rent controls if it gets into power at the next general election. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said in a speech which also promised 32-hour working weeks, that Labour would “cap rents and build a million genuinely affordable new homes so young people in particular aren’t pouring away thousands of pounds from their wages …
Reservation agreements are likely to be back in the news on Wednesday when the Government is due to announce the results of a survey of consumers on the specific topic. Public reaction is understood to be highly supportive of legally binding agreements being made at acceptance of offer stage, designed to prevent fall-throughs and money wasted by both buyers and …
Annual house price growth froze at the start of the summer, sticking at its seven-year low in June. Land Registry data has revealed that average prices grew 0.9% annually in June to £230,292, level with May and the lowest rate since November 2012. Monthly growth also remained at 0.7%. House price growth was strongest in Wales where prices increased by …