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The number of mortgages approved has more than doubled during the past year as the property market continues to recover, figures showed today. A total of 60,518 loans for people buying a new home were in the pipeline during November, the highest level since March 2008 and more than double the record low of 27,162 [...]

House prices rose by 5.9 per cent in 2009 as the UK property market bounced back from last year’s double digit declines. The average cost of a UK home rose by another 0.4 per cent in December to £162,103, marking the eighth consecutive month of price increases, according to Nationwide Building Society. The performance in [...]

With a new album on the horizon and a baby clamped to her side, the last thing singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor needed this year was a major property renovation project. But that’s exactly what she has faced – and conquered – in an action-packed 2009. ‘It sounds like a stressful combination of things to be doing [...]