“We enjoy watching the river traffic go by, as well as the many pubs, restaurants and coffee shops,” said Mr Pegley, 74. “We are looking forward to…

Dickens had to keep the incident under wraps. He had been travelling secretly with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. He avoided appearing at the inquest…

For great schools but lower prices, Lichfield in Staffordshire ranks highly. Here, homes cost that cost roughly half those in St Albans, at £322,437. It has become…

The cathedral city: Ely, Cambridgeshire Average house price: £361,406; travel time to London: one hour and 20 minutes Long overshadowed by nearby Cambridge, buyers who rule out this cathedral…

Since the start of the pandemic, house prices have jumped nearly £39,000 higher after a race for space and demand was propped up by the Government’s stamp…

First-time buyers Natalie Quail, 31, and her husband Nick, 34, have a tale of woe from the other end of the property ladder. The couple lived with…

For great schools but lower prices, Lichfield in Staffordshire ranks highly. Here, homes cost that cost roughly half those in St Albans, at £322,437. It has become…

Sellers are also feeling the pain of a system that cannot cope. In February 2007, the average sale took 102 days to complete. Now, the process takes…

The Government’s energy efficiency drive will force 15 million homeowners to each spend thousands of pounds on home improvements.  Around 60pc of all homes in England and Wales…

But rising values have priced out many landlords. In two years, prices have jumped 20pc. Mr Cooke estimated the share of investors buying property fell from 30pc…

In the ward of Stone & Waddesdon, which encompasses the two villages on the western side of Aylesbury, homes cost £361,619, or 7.5 times earnings. On the…

Previously, parents would send their children to school from areas outside Birmingham such as Warwickshire. Local landlords rented out properties to teenagers who would live near their…

For an 11-hour sitting at Monte Carlo Casino in July 1891, a man named Charles Wells had an exceptional winning streak. In a run of 30 spins…

With a budget of €250,000, they shifted their search north of the Dordogne to the Poitou-Charentes département, for better value, warmer winters and a shorter drive (4½…

Henry VIII was a man of insatiable appetites. The historian David Starkey aptly dubbed him “the king whose shape everybody remembers”. He was famously fat, famously free…

Investors who put tens of thousands of pounds into a £60m student accommodation project in Cardiff have been left fearing for their life savings, after the scheme…

The 11th century owner of Holmwood Common in Dorking, Surrey, had a rough time of it. King Harold was England’s last Anglo-Saxon king. He had one of…

Those 15 newly-minted wards that surged past the £1m threshold were largely in London’s commuter belt, where bidding wars broke out amid a race for space, a…

The Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Congo River Basin’s Mokele-mbembe are a motley crew championed by a strange subculture known as cryptozoology.  Is this…

In a competitive, cut-throat property market, buyers will do anything they can to get the home they want. And they need to fight hard – each estate…