The roofs of two redbrick houses are visible with a blue sky in the background. The sun can be seen in the reflection of second-storey window.

  • Grant trialled for 'crippling cost of childcare'

    North East Mayor Kim McGuinness primary School pupils at their breakfast club. They are sitting around a small table playing with plastic plant pots.

  • Martin Lewis wearing a blue shirt in front of a blue and orange background

  • Bank of mum and dad 'helps half of first-time buyers'

    Couple sitting on a rolled up carpet with their dog take a selfie in their new home surrounded by cardboard boxes.

  • 'Tree of the year' threatened by housing scheme

    • London
    Large pagoda tree

  • London's 'spiralling' housing crisis in numbers

    • London
    Picture of the top of a row of houses in London

  • Uber starts allowing customers to pay in cash

    Man holding a phone stands next to a black car in a street.

  • Unlawful renting of short-term lets on the rise

    • London
    A stock image of a row of white houses with porticos at each entrance and small black railings above each one.

  • Housing boss has 'more optimism' for young owners

    New Andium CEO Lindsay Wood stands on a building site. Scaffolding is visible behind her. She is wearing a red coat with a fluorescent vest and a helmet.

  • What is going on with Australia's housing market?

  • Ex-mining town worst hit by Pip cuts, study claims

    Close-up of a grey metal sign which says "Department for Work and Pensions". The government's logo containing a unicorn and a lion is above it in the top left corner.

  • Rate of house sales increases by 90%, data shows

    • Jersey
    Aerial view of buildings.

  • Cash has benefits, say Wiltshire small businesses

    Bradley Buechel wears a grey t-shirt and looks into the camera from behind his professional coffee machine. A price list is behind him on the wall and there are coffee cups lined up on the top of the machine.

  • Improvement needed over housing complaint backlog

    • Tyne
    A new Gateshead Council housing development at Whitley Court, Wrekenton. It is a modern, two-storey housing block with a patio, grass and wooden benches. The units are a combination of red brick, white and grey stone. A wooden canopy structure sits between the ground and first floors, ed by dark grey pillars.

  • Affordable homes built on Cairngorms ski hotel site

    The flats are white walled properties with windows along the walls and on a corner of a wall. The complex has peaked roofs.

  • Shops could be forced to accept cash in future, MPs warn

    Signs showing prices on a fruit and veg stall, including £1.50 each for celeriac, with a couple shopping in the background.

  • House prices fall in April as stamp duty changes kick in

    A woman looking at house prices in an estate agent's window

  • Residents still in limbo two years after flats blaze

    A mum dressed in black with blonde hair is holding a one-year -old boy. Next to them is a toddler girl. To the right there are two older boys wearing white school polo shirts. They are standing in the doorway to a static caravan.

  • 'Mould means a new shower curtain every three weeks'

    Peter looks at the camera wearing glasses and a grey jumper. While bathroom tiles in the background.

  • Homes approved in long-running Castle Cary scheme

    A planning map shows an aerial view of what the new development will look like. It shows the lay out of the new homes as well as the site for a new school and the Torbay Road industrial estate

  • Concern over 'backwards' plans for new homes

    An artistic interpretation of the finished site. There are people walking a cycling through a park-like area with white houses and a community building in the background.

  • Wales facing unrecognisable future, warns commissioner

    • Wales
    • 330
    Rows of terraced houses in Wales with chimneys and slate roofs, in low sunshine

  • Mortgages under 4% are back but dangers lurk for borrowers

    Couple seen looking at paperwork through the window of an estate agent with adverts seen on the window.