Auction houses are reporting huge rises in the number of residential properties being put up for auction – a symptom of continuing house price falls and a rise in the number of homes being repossessed.

In the West Country, Knight Frank’s residential development team is reporting a renewed interest in the buy-to-let sector on the basis it looks more attractive to invest in property than leaving savings in the bank not making any returns right now.

Distressed Assets, a Liverpool based property research and acquisition company has seen a sharp increase in the number of enquiries from investors for its bespoke property purchase service.

There has never been a better time to invest in buy-to-let housing in Lincoln, according to the city's Lighthouse Property Services.

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Figures released today show that the average UK home has lost £100 per day, every day since March 1st last year, wiping almost £1 trillion of value off the UK housing market in the past year.

Residents will receive wider access to affordable housing with a new Choice Based Lettings service delivered in partnerships across the region by Chester & District Housing Trust (CDHT).

Buyer enthusiasm continued to grow in February with interest in London at a high not seen for more than two years, says RICS’ UK housing market survey published today.

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.

After an absence of six months, Russian buyers are back in the market, with viewing levels from these buyers almost 100% higher in January and February when compared to the final two months of 2008.

With house prices falling across all European markets by the end of 2008 and prospects for 2009 even gloomier, the revival of European housing relies now on the ability of European governments to cope with the mortgage credit shortage and on the scale and duration of the economic recession, says the RICS European Housing Review 2009, published today.

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 have had enough of the rash of boards posted all over their boroughs and are taking action of the most modern kind – ASBOs.

Market sentiment has improved since January with potential ‘green shoots’ in many areas, but not all. How long will it last?

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), today unveiled a multi-million pound initiative which will help thousands of Londoners to get onto the property ladder as well as providing millions of pounds to kick start affordable housing developments that have stalled during the economic downturn.

It’s not surprising the country markets in the UK are doing badly in the recession.

Increasing investor interest in new build stock in prime London suggests that this market may be flattening out, according to Knight Frank’s latest London residential development review.

Whilst the steady stream of negative economic news attacks the senses, the weakened pound and the depressed UK property market create a unique set of circumstances which present a very attractive investment opportunity for overseas buyers.

Monthly house prices in England and Wales fell by 0.8 per cent in January, according to the latest figures from Land Registry.

Leicester's premier cash home buyers, An Instant Sale has this week raised concerns regarding the growing problems that auctioning a house is causing sellers.

Despite facing major challenges, housing associations inheriting former council housing since 1997 have been highly successful in delivering improvements promised to tenants.

First-time buyers in Tonbridge struggling to get a footing on the property ladder have been thrown a much needed lifeline.

Property developers and mortgage lenders report 3% rise in prices for corporate part-exchanged and repossessed properties.

“There are some very good buys in the house market at the moment”, says Dean Markall, Sales and Marketing Director at Hillreed Homes, “and we have seen a great increase in the number of sales in January and February compared to the latter few weeks of 2008.”

Recently released research from movewithus’ online property portal, whitehotproperty.co.uk, has revealed that children living at home for 5 years could cost their parents as much as £12,500, or the price of a 12.5% house deposit*.

The property market in Edinburgh and the Lothians is starting to show the first green shoots of recovery, as foreign investors are looking at snapping up homes across the city.