The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a “Higher Velocity Missile system” could be placed on a water tower. A [...]
A London council has been accused of starting “social cleansing” in the capital by asking a Stoke-on-Trent housing association to take on up to 500 families on housing benefit. Newham Council says it can no longer afford to house tenants [...]
For many years I would never take a holiday because I felt I couldn’t leave the business. Then back in the late nineties a client asked me to accompany him on a property finding trip to the Costa Del Sol. [...]
The Prime Minister will formally unveil a “reinvigorated” version of the ‘right to buy’ policy pioneered by Margaret Thatcher’s Government during the 1980s. If successful it could see another two million council homes sold off. Mr Cameron will say he [...]
One couple signed up for a PV installation in their roof – then found the 25-year lease made it hard to remortgage their home, despite official guidelines The owners of the house have been refused a new mortgage because of [...]
The stamp duty holiday for first-time house buyers ends later today, meaning they will join others in paying 1% tax on properties worth more than £125,000. The government says it ended the holiday because it had been ineffective in helping [...]
The UK Government has “run out of money” according to Chancellor George Osborne. He warned that as a result, the country could not afford any fuel tax cuts or extra spending in next month’s Budget. “The British Government has run [...]
Huge amounts of doom and gloom already reported in the news and we are only one day into February… Astra Zenica shed 7,300 jobs American Airlines cuts 13,000 positions Sony reports massive quarterly loss Tesco loses market share But Facebook [...]
A government scheme aimed at kick-starting the housing market by underwriting 95% mortgages will be available to people spending up to £500,000 on a new-build property, the housing minister has announced. The NewBuy Guarantee scheme, which will be launched in March, will [...]
