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Areas in England dominated by pricey holiday homes to get £60m for affordable housing
Community led housing in England it to get a further boost from a new annual £60 million fund which will help almost 150 councils tackle the problem of high levels of second home ownership, it has been announced. Housing Minister Gavin Barwell said that the new Community Housing Fund will put local groups in the […] The post Areas in England dominated by pricey holiday homes to get £60m for affordable housing appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
More people, especially first time buyers, moving away from costly London market
More people living in London are opting to move house with one in five going to the north of England or the Midlands, new research has found. It is suggested that some may be moving away due to the price of homes in the capital and while once they would have moved to surrounding areas […] The post More people, especially first time buyers, moving away from costly London market appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
New deal will see state of art modular homes built in UK
A £2.5 billion deal has been agreed which will see 25,000 new low state of the art carbon modular homes built per year by 2022 in the UK. Some might call them ‘flatpack’ homes but they are actually highly sophisticated buildings with solar power and energy saving attributes and will be built using British precision […] The post New deal will see state of art modular homes built in UK appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →