Just a quick one to let you know that we've uploaded unsold/available lots from the auctions held yesterday and today - check them out in our database! Lots more auctions being held this week, so all unsold properties will be displayed as soon as the details are released by the auctioneers.

Check out Chestnut Farm, 109 St. Pauls Road South, Walton Highway, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE14 7DD at www.goldingsauctions.co.uk - Wonderful equestrian opportunity ... cottage with 14 acres. Guide Price £300,000 to £350,00.

The site of approaching 14 acres offers 3 phase electricity and contains a 3 bed detached cottage with en suite accommodation, an 8000 sq ft indoor riding school, an outdoor menage, tack room, over 30 stables, 8 fenced paddocks, a triple car port and outside WC. A truly special lot with an extremely competitive guide price that's sure to generate significant interest

Savills Private Finance (SPF) has today launched an exclusive bridging product for those purchasing a buy-to-let property at auction in London and the South East. This new product will offer borrowers a pay rate of 0.99% (12.5% APR), a product arrangement fee of 0.75% and no early repayment charges.

Andre Bartlett, Associate Director at SPF, says, ''We have been involved in bridging finance for a long time but this is the first time we have had a product that is exclusively available to our clients. We see bridging finance as an area of growth and one which we are delighted to put our name

It has been reported today by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)  that the number of homes repossessed in the UK last year dropped by 24% to 36,300. The number of people in arrears by 2.5% or more of their outstanding loans also fell last year, by 13% to 169,600.

The continued low level of interest rates has helped many home owners in financial difficulties.

However, the CML repeated its warning that arrears and repossessions may rise this year.

"As we go through 2011, the number of people facing payment pressures may increase if interest rates rise, and as a result of the spending

Sadly for the previous owners, repossessions can often be picked up at bargain prices through auctions and are featured more and more in auction catalogues across the UK.

We have found that some banks/building societies can be somewhat sheepish about revealing that they are selling repossessed properties so you need to be alert in the auction for clues.

Where possible, when uploading a property into our database we will let you know if it is a repossession (if the auction house has released this information in their catalogue). Auction adverts may reveal that a bank may be the seller of

Property prices in the UK almost doubled during the last decade - despite the recent house price crash - according to new data.

The typical home's value soared by a massive 91% - or £78,000 - between 2000 and 2010, according to the Halifax, meaning the average home jumped from £86,095 to £164,310.

But the rate of growth differs drastically when you look at the data on a regional level. To reveal the areas where house prices have risen the fastest - and the slowest - over the decade click http://money.uk.msn.com/msn-local/photos.aspx?cp-documentid=156044344

(Note that house price rises

New figures have revealed that house prices rose by 0.8% during January as values bounced back after steep falls amid the pre-Christmas snow disruption.

Leading mortgage giant, Halifax said the average cost of a home in Britain rose to £164,173 last month, but this followed a 1.3% plunge in December as snowed-in buyers stayed away from the market.

Its quarter-on-quarter measure of house prices - seen as a smoother indicator of market trends - registered a drop of 0.7%, according to the group.

More doom and gloom for consumers as today we hear that EDF Energy has become the last of the big six suppliers to rise its prices from next month. Standard tariffs for electricity bills will rise by an average 7.5%, while gas bills will increase by an average of 6.5%. An average annual standard dual fuel bill paid by direct debit will rise by £68 to £1,051, or an extra £1.31 a week, after the March 2 hike.

(Sitting in the dark and washing in cold water may save a few pennies?)

It should be noted however that EDF, which has 5.5 million customers in the UK, held its prices through the

The UK's most prestigious home and product design awards return for their 6th year.

The search has begun for people with passion who have transformed their homes, and for the brains or inventors behind brilliant products.

The competition is FREE and OPEN TO ALL, so you don't have to be a professional architect or designer to enter.

If you've designed a fabulous new house, redesigned or converted a crumbling ruin, added a remarkable extension or sompleted a cutting edge ego project these awards are for you.

Visit http://www.grandesignsawards.com for further information, and remember

Hi everyone, just reminding you that we've uploaded quite a few new properties for auction into our database this week.  Merseyside, Kent and Scotland being key areas.  London property will start being uploaded over the weekend and from next week more catalogues will be released for all over the UK.

To view full property details, photos, maps, streetviews, local services, auctioneer contact details, auction calendar dates, etc... become a fully fledged UKAL member for just £9.95 a month or £19.95 for 3 months.  Register today!

And remember if you're thinking about selling your property