Figures from Nationwide suggest there is an 18% premium for a property situated within a National Park and an 8% premium for a property within 5km of a National Park.
"Around 190,000 households in Great Britain are located within the boundaries of National Parks," said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's Chief Economist. "National Parks are highly desirable areas to live thanks to the beautiful countryside. Development is also strictly controlled, with very little in the way of new housing construction, which also helps to explain why prices are relatively high.
The last handful of London homes to go on the market for less than £100,000 have been sold or are under offer, research revealed last week.
Agents said a “milestone” had been reached, with flats never again likely to be valued in five figures, barring a property market collapse.
At the end of last year, just five flats were on sale for less than £100,000, four in east or south-east London and one in Barnet, although this was on a short lease. All five now have buyers and one, a second-floor repossessed flat in Barking eventually fetched £112.500.
The top 20 burglary hotspots in the UK have been named - and London is home to more than half of them.
According to research by MoneySupermarket.com the nation's capital has 12 of the postcodes on the list.
But Manchester had the most burglary claims overall in the past 12 months - with 45.2 per thousand people. Herne Hill and Tulse Hill in SE24 in London were close behind with 41.8, and Muswell Hill in N10 chalked up 40.9. Birmingham and Liverpool each have two postcode districts in the top 20. Leeds saw the biggest decrease in robbery claim hotspots.
Tower Hamlets trumped Kensington this month as London’s less glamorous boroughs showed the biggest increase in property asking prices, according to property website Rightmove.
The average asking price demanded by sellers in Tower Hamlets jumped 3.6% to £531,917 in January — closely followed by Barking & Dagenham, where prices rose 3.4%. In contrast, Westminster saw an 8.3% slide in asking prices, albeit to £1.39 million while prices in Kensington & Chelsea were down 6.9% to a mere £2.05 million. Across the capital, overall average asking prices eased 0.2% to £514,704 in January.
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The London home jointly owned by the Monty Pythons – John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman and Terry Gilliam – is for sale for £12m.
Together at the three bedroom detached property, they produced and edited some of their most famous sketches for the television series Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Milkwood Studios, named after after a nearby house where poet Dylan Thomas worked, is a conversion on a vast scale.
The double height reception room measures almost 4,000 square feet. In total, the New York style loft property is in excess of 9,500 square feet and is set
AuctionLets.com will be revolutionizing the Lettings market combining auctions which are the tried and tested method of selling residential property and a process that will be familiar to users of one of the world's largest online auctions.
AuctionLets.com is dedicated to Landlords and Tenants. Landlords can upload their vacant properties while potential pre-referenced tenants can bid on the property they desire.
This online letting agent will bring tenants and landlords together, with a solution that they believe will become an industry standard for property rentals.
The average house price paid by first-time buyers rose by 6.4% in the year to November, a faster rate than the market generally, official figures show.
The Office for National Statistics said that new entrants to the housing market paid an average of £187,000 during the month – £14,000 more than in the same month of 2012. The average price paid by movers was higher, at £284,000, which was 5.3% up on 12 months previously, while the average increase across the board was 5.4%.
First-time buyers have been assisted by the government's Help to Buy scheme, which has made properties available to those
Auction House, the UK’s largest and most successful auctioneer has announced strategic expansion across its West of England territory.
The award-winning group has created dedicated auction rooms and support teams for two distinct areas: Auction House Bristol & Somerset North – which has been formed to cover the city, suburbs and much of Somerset, and Auction House Gloucestershire – which has been created to offer auction services throughout the county.
Auction House Founding Director Roger Lake said: “We now have 33 auction rooms around the UK and sold a massive 2,575 lots in 2013 – more than
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