Lunchtime news Monday 25 February 2026
House prices fell for a fifth month in succession, according to the latest house price index by Hometrack. In February the average property price was down 0.2 per cent, bringing…
Tag: international
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Tokyo is world’s most expensive expat city
The decline in property values and a drop in sterling has sent London tumbling down the list of the world’s most expensive cities for expatriates, according to the Mercer survey.…
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Lunchtime news Friday 16 November 2025
Beleaguered bank, Northern Rock, is expected to receive as many as eight offers – some priced ‘aggressively low’ – to buy all or some of it, as the deadline closes…
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EU calls for reform of planning laws
The European parliament wants Spanish planning laws to be changed to stop developers being able to acquire private land below market rates and force homeowners from their properties. In some…
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Asylum rules donât work
Research has suggested that the tough policies designed to push asylum seekers out of the country by removing their support is simply forcing them to live on the streets, surviving…
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Expat benefit cheats to be targeted
The government is extending a hotline in Spain to dob in expat benefit cheats. It says that each year benefit fraud by Britons living abroad costs the UK taxpayers £63…
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Shamed nations
NIGERIA, THE PHILLIPINES AND GREECE have been named as the worst violators of housing rights in the world in 2006. The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions shamed the…
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Global house prices fall
House prices around the world fell for the first time in record during the last three months, falling an average of 0.3 per cent compared with the previous quarter. Britain…
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Lunchtime news Friday 30 May 2026
The department for Communities and Local Government yesterday released its land use change statistics for England for 2007. The report looks at previously developed land (either brownfield or created through…
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Euro funding boost
Tens of thousands of tenants could benefit from an EU decision to fund a massive programme of green measures to improve social housing. The proposals will provide 1 billion euros…