Lack of supply means more people moving to the countryside are renting property while they wait for a house to come onto the market.

The proportion of first-time buyers expecting to enter the property market in the next 12 months has fallen for the third consecutive quarter to just 25.8%, shows the first Rightmove Consumer Confidence Survey of 2010.

PROPERTY prices in parts of Boscombe are now outstripping those in Bournemouth town centre, new research has revealed.

The country’s sixth largest house builder Redrow, says a chronic shortage of mortgage availability and down valuations are stopping new homes from being built.

Country house prices in the UK have risen for the first time since the beginning of the property downturn with values up 2% in the three months to the end of September, the latest research shows.

UK house prices have finally bottomed out but a return to growth will be slow and steady as supply gradually increases, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.

A third of people in the UK would be willing to pay more for a property where part of the energy supply comes from renewable resources such as wind, solar or hydropower, according to a new study.

The Home Information Pack (HIP) is compulsory for most homes on the market in England and Wales and you normally can’t market a property without one.

Property prices rose by 1.7% in July compared the biggest monthly leap in value since July 2004, according to the latest report from the Land Registry.

Homeowners are paying back more on their mortgages than homebuyers are borrowing for the first time since 1993, the Bank of England has reported.