When we see reports on the housing market, we often just look at year-on-year property price comparisons. But when you think about it, that just doesn’t work for buyers and sellers and that’s because many people today stay in their homes for around 20 years. If we look back over the past two decades, property
Local property tax returns are due on Friday, with the owners of around 2.25 million residential properties obliged to send updated valuations for their homes to the Revenue Commissioners. These valuations, setting out what the properties were worth last Saturday (November 1st), will determine how much local property tax households will pay each year between
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Rightmove shares tumbled as much as 25 per cent on Friday after the UK property listings site warned that profit growth would slow as it increased investment in artificial intelligence. The FTSE 100 group forecast
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Singaporean lender United Overseas Bank set aside its largest ever loan provision of S$615mn (US$470mn) on Thursday in anticipation of potential losses in the Hong Kong and US property markets. South-east Asia’s third-biggest bank by
Do you have a story? Email lettice.bromovsky@dailymail.co.uk By LETTICE BROMOVSKY, NEWS REPORTER Published: 19:58, 5 November 2025 | Updated: 20:01, 5 November 2025 A disgraced property tycoon who paid for his divorce with a massive property fraud after his wife left him for footballer Cesc Fabregas has saved £3.2 million following a successful appeal against
The UK property market is currently performing in line with long-term expectations, buoyed by a stable economic environment, albeit one which is harsher than expected in the longer term. Despite some claims that the market is slowing, up-to-date data tells a more optimistic story. Sales activity remains robust despite elevated interest rates and inflation; rent
DERBY, England, Nov. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Homemove, the fast-growing UK proptech platform simplifying home-moving, has acquired long-established property website Home.co.uk in a move set to inject fresh competition and innovation into the UK property portal market. Founded in 1995, Home.co.uk is one of the UK’s original independent property search and analysis websites. Under Homemove’s
Undervalued assets, tricky disposal rules, poor global sentiment; the real-estate investment trust (reit) regime, which promised so much when it first came into play back in 2013, is no longer seen as fit for purpose by some industry players, with all but one reit no longer listed on the Iseq index. “It’s not working the
The political decisions the Government is going to make in its imminent new housing plan will impact property valuations, residential and commercial, for years to come, auctioneers and valuers have said. Irish house prices rose at an annualised rate of 7.4 per cent in August, unchanged from the previous month, while the average price paid
A young couple struggling to get on the property ladder has been forced to buy a house of horrors where a sadistic zoologist kept a squalid torture chamber. The three-bedroom home was owned by evil UK-born crocodile expert Adam Britton, who was jailed for a decade last year for brutally raping, torturing and mutilating pet