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Steve Coogan, the british comedian has just bought Ovingdean Grange. A grade II listed building near Brighton in West Sussex for a reported £2.45 million.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has put its London Television Centre up for sale. The centre, which opened in 1960, was one of the first properties in the world to be designed for the sole purpose of making television programmes.

Recent property blogs and articles have focussed on the impact celebrity connections may have on and business and the price of property.

The Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, has bought what is set to become Britain’s most expensive apartment at One Hyde Park.

Darwoods is part of Leaders, the UK’s largest independent lettings chain. Every year the firm awards prizes to a number of its branches and staff for outstanding achievements in a variety of categories...

According to a leading group of economists, interest rates in Britain will have to stay at their record low of 0.5% for the next four years - much longer than previously expected.

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The level of online searches regarding commercial property in the UK recovered to in January to the level it was at before the festive slowdown according to the Property Search Index (PSI) compiled by Revolution Public Relations.

Online searches in the UK regarding commercial property slowed during December but showed a marked increase in activity by the end of the month according to the Property Search Index (PSI) compiled by Revolution Public Relations.

Aiming to banish irrelevant search results, Gartoo.co.uk is the first search site to experiment with specialised semantic search technology which focuses on UK property keywords entered by the house hunter to find the most accurate fit.

Numerous factors determine which house we buy – but now location, size of rooms, garden and proximity to good schools are becoming less important as new research reveals that we really are living in the age of the computer...

UKMoney.tv, a website devoted to everything related to UK money, launches its new social networking site. The site aims to help users learn about UK property, insurance, banking and everything else related to finances.

Overseas investors armed with strong currencies relative to sterling are eager to snap up repossessed properties in London, with savvy buyers seeing long-term value in the UK’s capital city.

Housebuilders and Housing Associations across the UK can enter the most coveted accolades in the new homes market – The What House? Awards 2009.

For homebuyers, the emergence of daffodils, longer hours of sunshine and Easter mean one thing: it is time to get viewing. The downturn has not stopped people window-shopping.

There is talk that the sequel to the hugely successful Sex and the City film will be partly shot in London – whisking Carrie Bradshaw and her pals out of the Big Apple and into the big smoke…

Twinning and you’re winning? TheMoveChannel investigates the phenomenon of town twinning and asks whether it really is just an excuse for a bunch of councillors to have a free holiday or whether it brings any benefits to the towns in question…

In a bid to further assist first time buyers to get their foot onto that first all important rung of the property ladder, the Scottish Government has expanded a scheme...

One of England’s most beautiful stretches of countryside, the South Downs, has been granted National Park status after a 60 year battle to decide on the park’s boundaries…

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has pledged to plough a whopping £22 million into renovating more than 1,300 derelict or empty homes in London and turn them into family houses…

Whilst jobs related to the construction industry are amongst the hardest hit by the credit crunch, architecture is suffering the most, with more architects now collecting benefits than any other profession…

The Little House Company has made selling property privately as easy for disabled people as it is for everyone else.

A recent survey commissioned by the Association of Property Finders and Buyers Agents (APFBA) highlights a requirement for more clarity in the role of UK estate agents when dealing with both sellers and buyers to avoid conflicts of interest.

New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that two in five homes in England will be occupied by only one person within the next 20 years…

Western Europe’s tallest building, the Shard London Bridge, has been in the pipeline for longer than I care to remember, but construction is finally beginning in London today, against a backdrop of economic gloom…

If you are looking for a below-market-value property bargain in the UK, now's the time to start looking, according to investment consultants Property Frontiers.

New HIP laws will make selling UK property privately easier, by forcing sellers to prepare in advance of the first enquiry, which comes quite quickly when you advertise online.

Affording a holiday during the credit crunch takes some creative thinking – thus a new trend of house swapping has sprung up...

If your elderly parent has just died and you are dithering about what to do with their house, or you have moved out of your home and are trying to sell it during the current recession – don’t delay too long...

Press release on how selling property privately can sometimes beat using estate agents.

You probably wouldn’t leave your credit card in a stranger’s hands for fear of what damage they might do with it, so why are people so willing to leave one of the most expensive things they own - their home...

With the credit crunch continuing to bite, caravan parks and camping grounds have started to soar in popularity, as people look to holiday on a budget closer to home – and getting back to basics is more fun than you may think…

Famous for penning some of the best loved thrillers and murder mysteries of all time, Agatha Christie’s own home is thankfully less of a crime scene and has just been opened up to the public for the first time…

Most of us are so used to seeing For Sale boards scattered around our neighbourhoods that we don’t even notice them anymore - they are as much a part of the scenery as road signs and house numbers - but some councils...

Balli Real Estate has predicted that the UK property market will enjoy an influx of overseas funds, due to the fall in the value of Sterling caused by the global financial crisis

Brits have been bailing out of their homeland faster than you can say bye bye blighty – so why are they all going and where on earth are they ending up? TheMoveChannel.com finds out the truth behind the run for the sun…

As probate properties are usually sold for less than their expected market value and owners are often keen to offload them quickly, this type of house sale is having a positive effect on the ailing UK housing market…

Beautiful Devon in the West Country has been voted England’s best county, scoring the highest marks in Country Life Magazine’s survey for green policy, landscape, wildlife, heritage, local food and pubs…

From the Hollywood Hills to Notting Hill – one landlord knew his luck was in when A-listers Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal turned up to rent his Victorian terraced home for a whopping £4,000 a week...

Investors and house hunters want the best deals. But in 2009, that increasingly means looking further a field. Tailored Home explains why its free property finding service is winner with clients.

There are clearly more important things to think about than flower beds at the moment, with the current economic meltdown continuing to freeze global property prices...

New research from the Halifax has revealed that a large proportion of first time buyers are unsure of what the acronyms and technical terms related to mortgage jargon mean...

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Here is your chance to snap up a slice of true film history - the remote Cumbrian cottage to which Richard E Grant and his sidekick escaped to in the cult 1986 film Withnail and I will be going under the hammer next month…

Are you feeling the need to brighten up your life? Well think carefully when choosing new wall colours or materials to liven up your home, as your favourite colour may say far more about you than you think…

Many of us spend years searching for the perfect match – house trained, steady job, correct age – the list goes on – and now new research has done the leg work for you – revealing the ideal tenant for your buy-to-let property…

Finally some good news – the falling house prices in the UK have helped to close the gap at the lower end of the property ladder, which could spell positive news for owners of one bedroom properties who wish to upgrade to a two bed…

Whilst many foreigners can’t wait to try out London living, London locals have had enough of the big smoke and are moving out in droves....

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