- Evening Standard•5 hours ago
Keep your cool: 15 fans to buy right now from Amazon available for next day delivery
How are you feeling – hot? Yep, us too. And it’s only going to get hotter.The UK is on track to see the hottest July day ever recorded, and with predictions of a sweltering 37 degrees, it’s time to get ahead of the heat and prepare now.There’s no need to sweat it if you’ve left it to the last minute
- The Telegraph•8 hours ago
The Telegraph's ultimate guide to buying your first home
It's harder than ever for young people to get on the property ladder. In some parts of the country you need as much as 13 times your salary to buy an average house in the area.
- Yahoo News UK•yesterday
In pictures: Inside the Scottish ‘mini Beirut’ ghost town where only 20 people live in 430 flats
These stunning photos show life inside one of Britain’s last ghost towns. Dubbed a ‘mini Beirut’ by one of its inhabitants, the Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, once housed hundreds of shipyard workers, but is now home to only about 20 people living in a handful of its 430 flats. Property
- Evening Standard•yesterday
This Yankee candle exclusive gift set is now half price
As well as our Best lists looking at the top products to shop online, we’re always on the look out to bring you the best deals before anyone else.One such deal that we’ve stumbled upon is at Tesco, first spotted by the eagle-eye bargain hunters at Hotdeals UK, where the price of a bumper Yankee Candles
- Evening Standard•2 days ago
'Blacklisted' landlords to be named on public database
Renters will be able to check if a landlord has been 'blacklisted' under government plans.The Government plans to open up its "Rogue Landlords Database" to renters, it emerged today.The register of blacklisted landlords is currently only open to local authorities but Communities Secretary
- Sky News•2 days ago
Renters will be able to look up rogue landlords under government proposals
Renters will be able to look up blacklisted landlords in a database under new government plans. The proposal would give tenants access to a register currently only available to local authorities and allow them to search landlords and letting agents by name to check their track records. Housing campaigners
- House Beautiful•2 days ago
Award-winning village house for sale in Hertfordshire
Take a tour of this contemporary home...
- PA Ready News UK•3 days ago
Campaigners welcome plan to open Rogue Landlords Database to tenants
The blacklist includes illegal landlords convicted over shoddy housing and other serious crimes.
AFP UK•3 days agoThai farmers on the cash trail with snail slime
Once feared by Thai rice farmers, giant snails are now being pampered for their precious slime, which is prized by the cosmetics industry, particularly in South Korea and the United States.
- Evening Standard•4 days ago
Best Moon landing anniversary gifts, collectibles and commemorative items
Five decades have passed since NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down from the Eagle spacecraft and made history as the first person to walk on the moon.On July 20th, some 238,855 miles away on planet Earth, hundreds of millions of people watched breathlessly as humankind triumphed in its greatest
- Evening Standard•4 days ago
Best sustainable furniture brands: From reclaimed wood to locally-sourced materials, the best eco-friendly furniture in the UK and beyond
Sustainable interiors is one of the biggest home decor trends of the moment but, rather than being a passing fad, it can be incorporated into our lives as an ongoing lifestyle choice that will go towards protecting our planet for years to come. So what exactly is sustainable furniture? Essentially, at
- Refinery 29 UK•4 days ago
Rent Control In London: About To Change Our Lives (& Finances) Forever?
How do you solve a problem like London’s private rental market? For years it has been an expensive race to the bottom as our capital quickly became the epicentre of Britain’s housing crisis. It is now a city of wild extremes – a place where steel-boned, gleaming glass high-rises sit empty, the flats
- Evening Standard•4 days ago
Comment: Don't be seduced by the Mayor's rent controls - in the long term, they make housing crisis worse
A few cheers erupted around the office here at the Mayor’s call for rent controls. You can understand why: millions of Londoners unable to afford to buy are being forced to rent, and are spending a fortune doing so — for a quarter of them, it’s half their monthly pay. The typical renter is no longer
- House Beautiful•4 days ago
Diane Keaton's former Laguna Beach home has just gone up for sale
It's as dreamy as you'd expect.
- Evening Standard•4 days ago
Property bosses rage against Sadiq Khan's London rent cap plan
Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday called for rent controls to be imposed on London landlords to protect tenants, but his plans triggered fury from property bosses who warned investors would be driven away from building new homes.The industry reacted with shock to Khan calling on the Government for extra powers
- The Independent•4 days ago
Sadiq Khan calls for rent control powers to help cash-strapped tenants in London
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for powers to control rents as part of an overhaul that would give tenants more rights and aim to bring down prices in the private rental market.Mr Khan wants tenants to be among the board members of a new private rent commission that will help design, implement, monitor
- Yahoo Finance UK•4 days ago
UK property: top tips to improve value of your home
These simple tricks could add 10% to your property price.
- The Guardian•4 days ago
Sadiq Khan calls for new powers to impose London rent controls
Sadiq Khan says it is ‘high time for private renting in London to be transformed’. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PASadiq Khan will demand an overhaul of tenancy laws in a campaign for London rent controls that is set to be the cornerstone of his 2020 re-election campaign.The London mayor has said he intends
- Yahoo Finance UK•6 days ago
Renters pay twice as much on rent as homeowners pay on mortgages
Official figures reveal the majority of renters in England have no savings, and that private and social tenants are just as likely as homeowners to rent homes out on sites like Airbnb.
- Yahoo Finance UK•6 days ago
From Stranger Things to Downtown Abbey: how much would it cost to own your favourite TV home?
Fancy buying a home straight out of your most loved TV show? Here's how much it will cost you
- PA Ready News UK•6 days ago
London house prices plunge at fastest annual rate since 2009
London property values fell by 4.4% in the year to May - the biggest decline since August 2009, the ONS and Land Registry said.
- PA Money News•6 days ago
London house prices plunge at fastest annual rate since 2009
London property values fell by 4.4% in the year to May - the biggest decline since August 2009, the ONS and Land Registry said.
- Sky News•6 days ago
London house prices fall at fastest rate in a decade
House prices in London fell in May at their fastest rate for almost a decade, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported a 4.4% decline, on an annual basis, in residential property costs in the capital. The wider ONS figures showed a continuation of the slowdown
- Evening Standard•6 days ago
Best alternatives to cling film: The best sustainable, reusable and plastic-free options for food storage
When cling film was first introduced to the market in the 1950s, it was revolutionary. Gone were the days of having to find a lid to cover every god forsaken morsel of leftovers - there was a new kid in town and you could cover your food with it to keep it fresher for longer without having to fasten
- The Guardian•6 days ago
London house prices fall at fastest rate in 10 years
Across the country as a whole, house price inflation dipped from 1.5% in April to 1.2% in May. Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/ShutterstockHouse prices in London have fallen at their fastest pace since the financial crash a decade ago as the capital bears the brunt of the nationwide torpor in the property
