Towns
Housing market in UK ended 2016 strongly, latest index shows
The residential housing market in the UK finished 2016 strongly with prices up 1.7% month on month in December, taking the annual growth to 6.5%. The quarterly growth was also strong, up 2.5% in the final quarter of the year, taking the average price of a home to £222,484, the figures from lender the Halifax […] The post Housing market in UK ended 2016 strongly, latest index shows appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
Cambridge records biggest house price growth outside of London in last decade
Towns and cities within commuting distance of London have seen property asking prices increase substantially in the last decade, according to new research. Cambridge has seen values rise the most with growth of 75.3% from 2006 to 2016, taking the average asking price to £463,093, followed by Walton on Thames with a rise of 71.8% […] The post Cambridge records biggest house price growth outside of London in last decade appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →
First ever garden villages to be built in England with support from Government funds
Details of the first ever garden villages to be built across England which will have the capacity to provide 48,000 new homes have been published. The 14 new garden villages are an expansion of the Government’s existing garden towns programmes and will be smaller projects of between 1,500 and 10,000 homes. Three new garden town […] The post First ever garden villages to be built in England with support from Government funds appeared first on PropertyWire . Continue reading →