Figures out today show that sales of properties across the UK fell 26.8% last month compared to the end of 2009 underlining just how difficult the housing market is as we enter 2011. The numbers produced in such a timely fashion by the tax man records just 71,000 sales in the month before Christmas compared ...

We have ended 2010 with calls from many for the monthly house price barometers to be reformed to try and reflect the differences between Clapham in SW11 and Clapham in north Yorkshire. Housing minister Eric Pickles plans to over-haul the Communities and Local Government house price index but it is hard to see how one ...

Someone is going to make a killing in property in 2011 and, as the National Lottery slogan goes, “it could be you.” Despite most forecasters predicting falling house prices, look at what the property investors of yore did. They didn’t make money in property because they sold it for a lot but because they bought ...