Melissa York

Ask any estate agent and they will tell you not to list your home for sale in winter. Traditionally the property market slows down in the run-up to the Christma

Years of hard saving and careful spending have paid off. You’re finally in a position to buy a house — but should you? This is the strange dilemma haunting fir

At a time when reaching for the thermostat is basically a fiscal event — a mini-brrrdget? — are you still winning the battle against your central heating? Ac

With fierce battles over planning, Tom and Barbara’s life in Surbiton would be very different today

A level results are far from the only worry keeping students up at night. The ones who get the grades they need next week to progress to university will then ha

In 2013 the government introduced Help to Buy to plug the widening gap between earnings and house prices. It meant the taxpayer took on the risk from mortgage l

So, you’ve decided that 2022 is the year you will get on to the property ladder. You have saved hard through several lockdowns, waited out the stamp duty frenzy

Standing in the bathroom of Britain’s richest plumber is quite a surreal experience. For the record, the taps are gleaming and Charlie Mullins has a freestandin

House of the week Cambridgeshire, £1.45 millionIn the village of West Wratting, half an hour’s drive from Cambridge, this is a single-storey house with two bed

HOUSE OF THE WEEKGloucestershire, £795,000Live the Cotswold stone cottage dream in this three-bedroom house near Winchcombe. The decor is a tasteful mix of con

What will it take for you to put your home on the market? This is the question preoccupying the nation’s estate agents, who have started the year morbidly wonde

Warwickshire, £650,000Bluebell Cottage sits pretty on a country lane in Shrewley, a village that’s a 20-minute drive from Coventry. A wood-burner an

France’s housing minister had to perform an embarrassing volte-face last week after she hit out at detached houses. Emmanuelle Wargon angered French residents

Being green is now mainstream. Only woolly hatted hippies used to cycle, recycle and eschew meat but practically every household in the UK now dabbles in all th

Help to Buy was the government’s great promise of homeownership to the priced-out generation, but now many who took their first step on to the property ladder

London W6 £7.95mEntertain in opulence on the banks of the Thames, with front-row views of the Boat Race thrown in. The gleaming white facade of this six-bedroom Georgian house is grade II listed and featured in the classic children’s book Madeline in London. The 6,300 sq ft property has six receptio

Norfolk £939,950For an ancestral seat with a sense of fun, look no further than the Old Rectory. The Howard family — hereditary dukes of Norfolk since the 15th century — gifted it to the Church of England in 1870, and their crest is still displayed on its vivid plum facade. The Queen is a nei

London from £2.9mLive like royalty on the edge of Regent’s Park, in the only grade I listed new-build homes in the capital. Historic England has awarded its highest rating to Regent’s Crescent, a terrace that was built by the architect John Nash for the Prince Regent (later George IV) to house h

With its disused warehouses and abandoned commercial buildings lining the banks of Regent’s Canal, a visit to Hackney Wick may not overwhelm you

Hairdressers Capri Hair Fashions faces the chop after nearly 50 years in Canning Town following council plans to evict them.