Finance and Property News

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau, sales of newly built, single-family homes in the U.S. during April dropped for the first time in 2017, falling 11.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 569,000...

Located in North East England, Newcastle sits on the River Tyne, a position that once made it one of the biggest shipbuilding hubs of the Industrial Revolution. Today, the city has transformed itself into a science and business centre, retaining its industrial grit...

Spain has once again been awarded the highest number of Blue Flags for its beaches this year. The Blue Flag is an internationally recognised eco-label that identifies a beach as clean, safe and committed to sustainability, based on strict criteria addressing water...

Where is it? The French Riviera is the part of southeastern France that graces the country’s Mediterranean coast. Effectively the unofficial name for Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the area is famous for its stunning scenery and equally stunning inhabitants, with the...

House price growth in England and Wales stayed subdued in April, according to new figures, although prices in the West Midlands raced higher. Property values edged up just 0.1 per cent for the second month in a row, according to the latest data from LSL Property...

Irish rents have soared to a new high in 2017, as the supply of available property has decreased. Research by ECA last year found that the subdued global economic growth had helped to drive up rental rates in Ireland, as expats and companies both flocked to the...

Prime London property transactions are on the up at the start of 2017. According to Strutt & Parker’s Residential Quarterly report for Q1, transactions have increased across Prime Central London (PCL) for the past three quarters. London has historically been the...

Portugal’s Golden Visa rush continues in 2017, with the scheme now on course to grant a record number of residence permits. New research by TheMoveChannel.com charts the scheme’s success since it began five years ago. Official data shows that the number of approved...

Now is the time to buy Spanish property, say 7 in 10 Spaniards, as confidence in the country’s real estate climbs. 71 per cent of those responding to a survey by Solvia and Kalvar TNS said that it is “good time” to buy property. The poll of 1,000 people asked for them...

Spanish property sales have surged 28 per cent in the last year, according to official figures. Data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) show that the number of sales recorded in the Land Registry rose 28 per cent in March 2017. There were 36,332 home...