NEWS STORIES
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..]
20-MAY-2008 | Don’t Build New Houses in Our Area
Gordon Brown’s proposal to build three million new homes before the end of the next decade has brought uproar to many villages and country towns. [cont..]
21-APR-2008 | Couple Told 'Your House is Unsafe'– Move Out
Fire fighters told couple Ian and Andrea Balm to move out of their house immediately after it was deemed unsafe for them to stay in anymore when it almost collapsed around them. [cont..]
06-APR-2008 | Houses are 30 Per Cent Too High
The International Monetary Fund warned yesterday that house prices in the UK are 30 per cent too high. For over a decade house prices have risen to almost 200 per cent in some parts of the country and the International Monetary Fund say it could soon crash with the UK experiencing one of the world’s ‘largest unexplained increases in house prices” during this period. [cont..]
30-MAR-2008 | Wind Turbine on Roof of David Cameron’s House
David Cameron is now planning to reinstall a wind turbine on the roof of his £1 million five bed-roomed house in Kensington after a wave of criticism forced him to take one down after only a week in 2006. [cont..]
24-MAR-2008 | Knocking Down Old Homes Adds to Climate Change
Victorian and Edwardian homes that are being demolished by the tens of thousands are not helping towards the concerning climate changes. [cont..]
18-MAR-2008 | House of Straw
For a fleeing moment visitors to the Lock in Dumfries may think they have entered the nursery world of the big bad wolf and the three little pigs when they come across a house made out of straw. [cont..]
13-MAR-2008 | British Gas Ripping Off The Poor
A survey by The National Housing Federation has found British Gas is charging up to £400 a year more for customers who use prepayment meters in their homes. [cont..]
07-MAR-2008 | A Call to Stop Selling Council Houses in Scotland
Housing spokesman Jim Tolson raised a concern at the Scottish Liberal Democrat party's conference in Aviemore of existing council houses being sold. He has called for Councils to be given the power to scrap tenants’ rights to buy their own homes. [cont..]
03-MAR-2008 | Cannabis Factory Behind Closed Doors
The four bed-roomed detached house on the outskirts of Coventry looked like any typical family home, but growing behind the walls were hundreds of cannabis plants! [cont..]
25-FEB-2008 | Swapping Houses is Becoming Popular
Home exchange for holidays has been ongoing for some years now and is a very popular way of having a cheaper and more comfortable holiday. Couples worldwide are now going one step further in the trend of swapping houses permanently. [cont..]
21-FEB-2008 | Houses Made From Steel
After several weeks of residents watching two story walls with no windows being built they are now relieved to find out it is not warehouses being erected in their neighbourhood but houses. [cont..]
18-FEB-2008 | Home for Families of War Wounded Soldiers Opens
Thanks to readers of the Daily Telegraph newspaper a home is to be opened for families of seriously injured soldiers to stay in while visiting them in hospital. [cont..]
08-FEB-2008 | British Shun Buying Homes in Spain
There has been a dramatic fall in the number of houses and villas being sold to non-Spaniards according to figurines released last week by the Costa del Sol Association of Constructors and Promoters. [cont..]
05-FEB-2008 | Residents Angry on Proposed New Houses to be Built
Hartlepool Borough Council has received a petition from angry residents who are up in arms reference a proposed housing development to build 13 semi-detached houses within the Rift House area. [cont..]
01-FEB-2008 | Flat Packed Homes now on Offer at IKEA
Welcome to the world of flat packed homes courtesy of Swedish furniture retailer Ikea and designer construction firm Skanska. After the initial first built BoKlok homes in Gateshead last year, the ‘go ahead’ has been given for more of these affordable houses to be constructed. [cont..]
28-JAN-2008 | Madonna turns £6 Million Pound Georgian House into Personal Gym
Having your own personal gym next door can certainly cut back on time spent having to find somewhere to park, and that is exactly what Madonna has done after buying the house next door to where she lives. [cont..]
23-JAN-2008 | Complaints on Bailiffs Gaining Illegal Entry to Homes
The National Debt line is giving warnings of bailiffs illegally entering houses to confiscate people’s possessions. Reports show that 40% of bailiffs are harassing and intimidating those who are not fully aware of the laws on allowing them access into their homes. [cont..]
17-JAN-2008 | Housing Tenants Offered £1,100 to Move to Smaller Homes
East Devon District Council has joined in with other councils within UK in the scheme of offering its housing tenants cash sums of up to £1,100 to move out of family homes that have become too big for them. [cont..]
11-JAN-2008 | The Disappearance of a Community in Skipsea
Homes in Skipsea are sitting precariously on the Yorkshire East Riding coastline which has been reported as the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. On entering Skipsea you are met with a sign of “Danger – Enter at your own risk” and just ahead there is a huge hole in the middle of the road just in case you missed the sign! [cont..]
06-JAN-2008 | Metal Shutter on Empty Properties are Given a Modern Art Design
Ugly metal shutters on a row of imposing terraced houses in Edge Lane have been brightened up with an array of modern artwork designs. [cont..]
02-JAN-2008 | 266,322 Vacant Properties in the Republic of Ireland
A giant tree house that was built and opened to the public in January 2003 at a cost of £3.3m has had to close down after firemen fought and failed to save the roof in a 4 hour blazing battle. [cont..]
29-DEC-2007 | Fire Closes down Giant Tree House
A giant tree house that was built and opened to the public in January 2003 at a cost of £3.3m has had to close down after firemen fought and failed to save the roof in a 4 hour blazing battle. [cont..]
23-DEC-2007 | MoD Wasting 25m a Year on Vacant Houses
With the growing concern of a housing shortage in the UK, its been announced this week that the MOD are wasting more than £25 million a year ‘sitting’ on unoccupied properties. [cont..]
16-DEC-2007 | Reports on Home Information Packs from August 1st
The HIPs for homes with four or more bedrooms was introducted in England and Wales on August 1st and three bedroomed properties on September 10th. [cont..]
10-DEC-2007 | England's Housing Shortage
Despite the Governments pledge to build an extra three million homes by 2002, England is heading for a housing crisis according to the latest reports. [cont..]
07-DEC-2007 | Botched DIY Cover Up from Home Sellers
According to research results from the Zurich Insurance Company almost two-thirds of people have been duped when buying a property that has turned out to be in far worse condition than expected. [cont..]
02-DEC-2007 | House Prices Set to Fall in 2008
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) announced that the slowdown of the housing market (except for London) is becoming more pronounced after its latest survey suggests October prices fell for the third month in a row and at the fastest pace since July 2005. [cont..]
29-NOV-2007 | Shared Ownership Developments
The Old City Hospital in Truro, Cornwall has this week seen the first of nearly 200 families move into a major affordable housing development. [cont..]
