UK house prices pick-up in July

The year-on-year rise in UK house prices accelerated in July, a major lender has said, with the cost of the average home at £217,010. The Nationwide Building Society said that the annual growth in house prices rose from 2% in June to 2.5% in July. However the lender...

Fall for the charms of a thoroughly modern mews

Property developers know they are on to a winner if they can create an authentic-looking mews, which Filmer Mews in Fulham certainly is. This gated, freshly cobbled passageway off Muster Road has nine new mews houses set over two storeys, each with up to three...

Rise in number of million-pound house sales taking place

Some 14,474 homes were sold for more than £1 million across Britain last year, up from 13,748 in 2016, Lloyds Bank Private Banking found – the highest annual figure on its records going back to 2007. The numbers increased despite a fall in million-pound house...