Landlords to launch legal challenge to George Osborne’s tax relief changes

Buy-to-let group says plans introduced in chancellor’s autumn statement are an unfair tax grab that could be unlawful

UK buyers need to save for up to 24 years to get on housing ladder

Resolution Foundation research shows it can now take almost a quarter of a century for UK households to accumulate deposit

UK house prices will continue to rise strongly, says Halifax

Year-on-year growth at 9% despite slight decrease last month, says lender as Bank of England reports further fall in rates on gross mortgage advances

The roof is being fixed but beware the house crashing beneath it

Consumer spending is driving economic growth but household debt and the house price-income ratio is at a record high. Be afraid

George Osborne scraps tax credit cuts in welfare U-turn

Chancellor says in autumn statement that improvement in public finances means he is able to ditch controversial cut

George Osborne unveils his ‘bold plan’ to tackle housing crisis

Stamp duty rise, doubling of interest-free loans in London and more affordable homes will benefit first-time buyers, says chancellor

Buyers snap up first batch of BBC Television Centre homes

Initial 180 properties planned for inside broadcaster’s former White City headquarters sold to mostly UK buyers

Housing bill will be catastrophic for London, says Sadiq Khan analysis

Right-to-buy plans and forced sale of council houses will broaden housing crisis, according to Labour mayoral candidate

‘It’s an insult’: Chinese property developers race to the top of London’s skyline

Giant luxury towers (with their own karaoke rooms) to spring up around the city as eastern investors look to Britain. But residents fear deals will force them out

George Osborne’s housing-based revival stands on flawed foundations

The preconditions for another boom-bust are already in place thanks to the chancellor’s strategy of heating up the property market

House price gap widest for 20 years between London and other cities

Homes in Liverpool and Glasgow 75% cheaper than in capital, where property values have hit record of 12 times earnings

The great global house price quiz: can you guess these property values?

As house prices skyrocket in many cities around the world, try your luck at identifying the asking prices for these 10 very different dwellings

Revealed: the widening gulf between salaries and house prices

Buyers in England and Wales forced to spend up to 12 times their income as gap between earnings and house prices widens

Economic growth will not be the answer to the UK’s housing crisis

Britain’s economy is likely to grow but so too will house prices and rents, prolonging the country’s crisis of unaffordable housing

Towns the UK property boom forgot: ‘We sold at a £410,000 loss’

Buyers in Newry, Northern Ireland, lost it all after believing prices would keep rising – while other UK towns such as Ferryhill and Conwy are also suffering