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Three million homes not enough to house increased population in 2020
The target to build three million new homes by 2020 is not high enough to meet
the growth in the number of elderly people and young families, a report says.
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The seed of a higher house price is planted in your garden
Ditch the dead shrubs, blast that paving slime and send the garden gnome packing – money can grow on trees if you rejuvenate the space outside your home.
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Time and place: Alison Balsom
We moved to the house - where my parents still live – when I was about 13 and
I stayed there until I finished school at 18. It’s in Royston,
Hertfordshire, where I grew up from the age of 10 months. Our previous
house, which was in another part of the town, was Victorian and pretty, but
the garden [...]
Pitfour: The Blenheim of Buchan
They dubbed it the Blenheim of Buchan. Not on account of the architecture —
John Smith of Aberdeen was hardly Sir John Vanbrugh — but for its man-made
landscape: the lake and islands, bridges and Greek temple.
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Architects told to seek work abroad
IT IS not just construction workers who have been ensnared by Ireland’s
property downturn: the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has
warned of a job famine facing hundreds of new graduates who are preparing to
enter the workforce.
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‘Affordable’ and empty homes costing €7.5m
LOCAL authorities will spend at least €7.5m this year paying interest and
security costs on vacant buildings in the affordable-homes scheme.
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Property market is too big a gamble for owners who are selling homes by lottery
Desperate homeowners seeking to move house are resorting to a novel way of
bucking the becalmed property market: sale by prize draw.
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If a prize quiz for a house is the answer, just how difficult must the questions be?
Desperate homeowners seeking to move house are resorting to a novel way of
bucking the becalmed property market: sale by prize draw.
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Brief encounter: Can we trust the Ordinance Survey?
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Horatio Hornblower's real home?
A townhouse that was once the home of the real-life Horatio Hornblower has
come up for sale in the Wiltshire market town of Devizes.
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