NEWS STORIES
28-FEB-2009 | Crane Refused Installation on Housing Estate
After residents from a housing estate complained to the Housing Group about damage to their properties, they have prevented a large crane access to the work site. [cont..]
20-FEB-2009 | Houses Lit Up for Charity
For the third year running for just under a month, a house located in Bramley in Surrey, becomes the brightest house on the street when it is covered in thousands of lights as well as the interior being decorated by a plethora of snowmen, Christmas trees and a Santa Claus. [cont..]
12-JAN-2009 | Man Found Guilty of Smear Campaign against Estate Agent
A fifty three year old man from Oldham in Lancashire was given a suspended sentence by the Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court over a campaign intended to smear the reputation of an Estate Agent he had dealings with when he was trying to repurchase his house. [cont..]
12-DEC-2009 | Burnley Homes to be Transformed
A local councillor has reported that the development of up to one hundred and eighteen new homes are to be built in Burnley Wood which they hope will transform the area. [cont..]
12-NOV-2009 | Beach Home Could be Demolished
Located on the Gower Peninsula on Three Cliffs Bay, the construction of a lavish beach home owned by an hotelier from Wales could be halted permanently as the actual building is apparently much larger than originally designed! [cont..]
31-OCT-2009 | Housing Planned for Farmland
A large farmland area in Penwortham could be the possible site for a new urban village for approximately three thousand new homes. [cont..]
14-OCT-2009 | Petition Launched in Bristol
Hundreds of homes are to be planned for the south Bristol area and in an effort to stop this from taking place; the public have launched a petition. [cont..]
29-SEP-2009 | Complaints about Boarded Up Houses
In most communities there is usually a building or a sign that spoils the view of something beautiful or scenic. This is the case in the village of Hadston in Northumberland where two empty bungalows have remained boarded up for some time and are causing an eyesore to its residents and visitors to the village. [cont..]
10-SEP-2009 | Council Tenants Making a Profit
Local authorities are aware that hundreds of council homed tenants are making large profits by illegal means. [cont..]
14-AUG-2009 | Peterborough Home Crime Figures
The Home Office has this week released statistics on an alarming rise in robberies committed since last year’s figures, with a 15 per cent increase in house burglaries alone. [cont..]
10-AUG-2009 | Homes to be Built Not Pizza Place
A district of Farncombe in Surrey has had an application to erect a new Domino’s pizza takeaway unit rejected and in its place will be a row of eleven two bedroomed terraced houses. [cont..]
27-JUL-2009 | Open House Thief
A woman from Brampton in Southern Ontario was accused of stealing electronics and jewellery from open house viewings early in June. [cont..]
23-JUL-2009 | Draw System Introduced For Homes
A vast number of people in Northern Ireland require housing and because of these numbers, the Northern Ireland Co-ownership Housing Association decided to change its system of allocation for housing. [cont..]
19-JUL-2009 | Garden Covered in Mud Slide
Entering his garden one day Mark Henderson from Fernhill in Scotland was greeted by the sight of mud and dirt piled up high in his back garden. [cont..]
08-JUL-2009 | Church to be Demolished for Housing
A City Church which has been unused for over twelve months has been scheduled for demolition by the Plymouth City Council. In its place there will be twenty new houses built instead. [cont..]
04-JUL-2009 | Fans of Agatha Christie Opposed to Housing Estate
A housing estate is planned near a home where Agatha Christie once lived in Oxfordshire. Fans of the writer are objecting to these plans and have begun campaigns to stop it. [cont..]
29-JUN-2009 | Home Sliding into Tonawanda Creek
Last month the Tonawanda Creek in north east Amherst in America recently had an addition into its riverbed when part of a 1950’s Cape Cod house porch and its backyard collapsed into its flowing waters. [cont..]
19-MAY-2009 | New Regulations for Corded Window Coverings in Canada
In order for window coverings to be safer for smaller children, Canada's Government has announced new safety regulations. The regulations are intended to lessen the amount of dangerous incidents that occur through accidental strangulation. [cont..]
15-MAY-2009 | Housing Charity Demand Cheaper Homes
Redbridge Council in London have been called upon by a Housing Charity to supply homes within their borough to be more reasonably priced in an effort to aide the many families who live in bed and breakfasts or houses that are overloaded with inhabitants. [cont..]
11-MAY-2009 | Substandard Homes For Many Soldiers
More than half of the men and women serving overseas in our Armed Forces are living in appalling accommodation with conditions that fall way below the standard that would be expected, forcing some personnel to sign off. [cont..]
04-MAY-2009 | Boost for Elderly Homes in Gateshead
Over one million pounds of improvements are due to take place on the homes within Mulgrave Villas in central Gateshead which has a total overhaul planned in the near future. [cont..]
28-APR-2009 | Funding Doubled for Council Homes in Scotland
Scotland's Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon has announced that the Scottish Government will increase funding over the next couple of years for new council homes to £50 million, double what the current budget stands at. [cont..]
24-APR-2009 | Longer Housing Waiting Lists Because Houses are Left Empty
Over 30,000 people on the Birmingham City Council housing list are facing longer delays in being allocated a home because repair contractors are failing to meet targets for doing up empty homes. [cont..]
10-MAR-2009 | London’s Mayor’s Plans for Affordable Homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has underlined plans to build affordable homes by 2011 at a cost of £135 million pounds. [cont..]
03-MAR-2009 | Paper Houses Created by Swiss Company
Paper homes have been created by a Swiss company known as The Wall AG as a solution towards housing long-term refugees in third-world towns. [cont..]
26-FEB-2009 | Garden Sheds’ Being Used as Outside Offices
Television’s property guru Kirstie Allsopp is no stranger to showing prospective buyers round properties and has a clear understanding of how to make the most out of your home to the extent that she now has a purpose built ‘home office’ in the garden of her flat at her London home. [cont..]
17-FEB-2009 | House is Pulled Across a Frozen Lake
Onlookers at White Bear Lake at St Paul, Minnesota watched open mouthed as a 60 ton house was reeled across the frozen ice like a hooked fish. [cont..]
09-FEB-2009 | Bail Homes in Residential Areas for Early Release Prisoners
Residents’ are up in arms about bail homes within their neighbourhood being used to house early release prisoners. [cont..]
21-JAN-2009 | Cuban Citizens Can Now Build Their Own Homes
For the first time in almost 50 years Cubans are now able to build their own homes using their own money. [cont..]
11-JAN-2009 | House Prices Fall by £100 a Day
Newspapers this week reported that house prices are falling at a rate of £100 a day and shocking figures reveal they may well continue to fall even further. [cont..]
31-DEC-2008 | Festering Garbage Has Residents Up in Arms with Council
Residents of 106 new houses and flats on the Peach Maltings site in Bury St Edmunds are fuming after being left with no bins and having to live with festering garbage mountains slowly building up around their homes. [cont..]
28-DEC-2008 | Celebration for Lock Keepers Homes
Lock Keepers along the River Thames and their families breathed a sigh of relief and celebrated after news reached them that plans to dispose of properties were to be scrapped and they would now not have to move out of their homes. [cont..]
13-DEC-2008 | 250 New Homes Built in One Week for Impoverished People
Christmas came early for some of Africa’s poorest residents this week with the completion and hand over of 250 free homes that had been built by 2,000 volunteers in just one week. [cont..]
06-DEC-2008 | The 2008 Holiday Candlelight Home Tour - America
Kevin and Margaret Moorehead’s house is one of the eight carefully selected candidates that have been chosen to take place in the Holiday Candlelight Home Tour this year. [cont..]
05-NOV-2008 | Homeowners to Pay Property Developers for their own Gardens
Residents in a Mid Bedfordshire village are up in arms after receiving news from a property developer telling them they have to pay for their own gardens. [cont..]
25-OCT-2008 | Mine Shaft Found Under New House
House builder company Taylor Wimpey are again in the news after a disused mineshaft has been found underneath the foundations of a four bedroom house in Country Durham. [cont..]
14-OCT-2008 | One Building Society Doing Great during Credit Crunch Time
Bad news on the property market is fast becoming a daily part of our lives and with mortgage lending in August having the lowest figure for 30 years it’s a breath of fresh air to see one building society that is doing well in today’s credit crunch. [cont..]
06-OCT-2008 | Sheltered Accommodation to be Bulldozed
Landmark buildings in Quinton Birmingham are to be demolished later this year to be replaced with an old age pensioners’ housing development at a cost of £11.8 million pounds. [cont..]
29-AUG-2008 | Love the House so Much They Took it With Them
When Brian and Nicky needed a bigger home for their six children they decided they really could not leave behind their beloved house so moved it lock, stock and barrel with them. [cont..]
17-AUG-2008 | House Being Eaten Away
A house in the northeast area of Ivanhoe in California had been invested with termites for years before it was discovered when the family started redecorating and moving the furniture around they found what looked like a dried clump of dirt on the wall. [cont..]
11-AUG-2008 | Four Hundred Year Old Windmill Converted to A Family Home
All over the UK it is not been unusual to see barns and churches converted into homes and now it seems the latest trend is to turn rustic old windmills into homes. One such couple is Glyn and Debbie Larcombe who decided to downsize the family home by building something smaller in their own back garden after their three daughters had all grown up and left and was left with just one teenager son living at home. [cont..]
04-AUG-2008 | Estate Agents Raise Prices to Cover their Loss in Earnings
With the decline in house sales, some of Britian’s biggest estate agents are suffering losses in wages and are now trying to compensate the fall in their income by raising prices. [cont..]
21-JUL-2008 | One in Every Thirty Houses Abandoned
The city of Indianapolis in America has been struggling to cope with the ever increasing rise in houses being left abandoned by those who could no longer afford to keep up with the rising costs of taxes and mortgages. [cont..]
07-JUL-2008 | Houses Demolished Before they Drop 100 feet Down
A row of bungalows is now teetering on the edge of a cliff after a staggering 20ft of land has fallen away leaving the houses unsafe to live in. [cont..]
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