All news on the topic: House prices

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Agent who sold house for £6,000 in 1968 resells same home for staggering price
Andrew Morris was just 18 when he helped Michael and June Stafford buy their first home in Hereford for £6k. Now they've moved out and he's selling it again for almost 100 times that price
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Woman spends £200k turning home into Goth wonderland with Game of Thrones theme
Interiors enthusiast Sarahjane Corani has spent £200,000 refurbishing her home in York into a Gothic fairytale inspired by her love of metal music - but says it's added £300k to its value
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Life in 'UK's Magaluf' - drugs on beaches, police raids and £1million houses
Newquay in Cornwall used to have a reputation for being a party town but in recent years that has changed, but locals insist things are as bad as ever as drug taking runs rampant
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Mortgage deal with zero deposit is launching in the UK - what you need to know
Skipton Building Society says its Track Record Mortgage is designed to help renters who are struggling to stump up a deposit to get on the housing ladder - it is the first of its kind since 2008
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Tenants 'trapped' in rental cycle as prices soar for first-time buyers
A study of 2,000 adults, who live in a rental property, found 86% dream about one day stepping onto the property ladder
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Family house hits the market at just £30,000 - but it needs plenty of work
The two-bedroom terraced property in Farnworth, near Bolton in Greater Manchester is listed on property site Zoopla for just £30,000 - but it needs a lot of work
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Idyllic village has homes for £170k but you need permission to paint front door
Merseyside village Port Sunlight was founded in 1888 by industrialist William Hesketh Lever for his factory workers and today, to preserve the area, new inhabitants must follow strict aesthetic rules
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Inside tiny £1,600-a-month studio flat where the loo is in the shower
People have been left baffled at the extortionate price of a studio flat in London where two vital components of a bathroom have been put together - and people aren't impressed
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Private island where no one lives hits market - but you'll have to build house
This unspoilt green gem off the Scottish comes with 25 miles of space and is surrounded by vast swathes of the Atlantic Ocean - but it's cost you £150k
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Bedsit to rent in posh London suburb for £1,240 - but it's missing key feature
A bedsit in Bayswater, west London where the average price is £1.4million, is available to rent for £1,240 a month, but there is a hidden catch as it is missing a key feature
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Estate agents share 'naff' common feature now knocking £15,000 off house prices
A once popular feature of houses and a way of adding to the value of property is now seen as "naff" and it could take £15,000 off the price with energy efficient homes now the most sought after
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'I saved £3,000 selling my home without an estate agent - it took just 3 weeks'
Carrie Rose, 30, bought her semi-detached house in a popular village in south Yorkshire six years ago for £154,000 but after speaking to an agent when she opted to sell - Carrie thought she could do a job better herself
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Shepherd's hut and barn close to UK's priciest seaside town on sale for £475k
The tiny shepherd's hut and stone barn sit close to the village of East Prawle in South Devon, with the plot's £475,000 price tag twice that of the UK's average property value
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'Underrated' UK beach town named cheapest to buy home with £117K average price
Salcombe in Devon was been named as the country's priciest coastal place - with some hotels charge nearly £500 pound per night - but Newbiggin-by-the-Sea one room is advertised at just £25 per person.
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Most expensive seaside places where buying a property can cost you £1.2million
Average house prices in the coastal town of Salcombe, Devon, have hit just over £1.2 million - meaning it has replaced Sandbanks in Dorset as the priciest seaside spot
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Red Wall Tory blasts housebuilding fail as he demands 90,000 social homes a year
West Bromwich West MP Shaun Bailey attacked successive governments' records on meeting housebuilding pledges in an essay for the centre-right think tank, Bright Blue
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Renters asked to shell out £1000 a month for property - but it looks like a shed
The apartment, in posh Maidenhead, Berkshire has caused a further stink with potential lodgers because it's a stone's throw from sewage works
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Home-hunters baffled by 'shed' one-bed apartment that costs £1,000 a month
The housing market is in shambles but this one bed flat takes the cake at £1,000 per month - disgruntled house hunters are calling the cosy accommodation no better than a shed
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'Worst house in UK' for sale with sprawled graffiti, litter and warning signs
A house-hunter was left confused and sad after seeing the state of a bungalow in Bradford which contained graffiti, litter, and warning signs - but it costs just £15,000
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Huge Victorian mansion by Scottish loch costs less than a one-bed London flat
A Victorian mansion that looks over a stunning Scottish loch and boasts its own botanical gardens cost less than a one-bed flat in London
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Poundland replacing posh estate agent sparks row as resident calls it 'disaster'
The arrival of a Poundland in an exclusive London neighbourhood has led to a fierce debate ranging from residents calling it a "disaster" to one saying "what is the problem with it"
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From Sandbanks to food banks - Property hotspot is surrounded by poverty
An increasing number of people are forced to use foodbanks in Poole, the coastal town whose outcrop of Sandbanks this week became the most expensive place to live on the planet
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Liz Truss backers should apologise for £7,000 mortgage hikes, says Sadiq Khan
Startling research by Labour found some mortgage holders are being forced to find an extra £642 every month in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's botched economic experiment
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Man who bought £5k home on 'UK's most dangerous street' says it's now worth £1m
Hasan Rezvan, 75, bought the four-bed property in Brixton, south London in 1970 after moving to the UK from Cyprus - despite the area's bad reputation it has since skyrocketed in value
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Best place to work in UK named - and it's 'better than London'
Glassdoor has revealed its top 10 places to work in the UK after giving each city a rating for overall job satisfaction - local business owners can understand why