December 01, 2020 3:00 PMAdventure photographer Ross Bernards said four men arrived as if out of nowhere to dismantle the sculpture.

The number of tenants seeing rents increase fell for the second month in a row, the ARLA Propertymark October Private Rented Sector report has revealed. Only a third (37%) of agents saw landlords increasing rent in October, compared to 40% in September and 48% August. This is 13% lower than in October 2019, when the […] The post Fewer landlords hiking rents appeared first on PropertyWire.

UK lenders approved 97,532 mortgages in October, the most since September 2007, the Bank of England’s Money and Credit data shows. The housing market has gotten busier, as there were 92,091 given the green light in September, compared to 85,704 in August. Before the pandemic the were 73,384 mortgages approved in February, before the amount […] The post Mortgage approvals at 13-year high appeared first on PropertyWire.

December 01, 2020 2:26 PMWILMINGTON (REUTERS) - United States President-elect Joe Biden will formally introduce his top economic policy advisers on Tuesday (Dec 1) as his administration prepares to take power amid a slowing economic recovery hampered by the resurgent coronavirus pandemic.

A third (31%) of people who were rejected for a mortgage were left feeling depressed, a survey by specialist mortgage broker platform Haysto has found. More than half (53%) felt marginalised, unfairly treated and with a sense of injustice as a result, while 21% said the process had left a long-term negative effect on their […] The post Many feel depressed after a mortgage rejection appeared first on PropertyWire.

Guildford has been named the best place in the country for city dwellers to relocate to by Compare My Move, a firm which connects people with removal companies. This is based on the average house price, median salary, download speed and the annual average hours of sunlight. The town is a 35-minute train ride from […] The post Guildford seen as the best place to relocate to appeared first on PropertyWire.

Confidence in the housing market has cooled, though more people still think house prices are rising than falling, Halifax’s House Price Sentiment Tracker for November has found. Some 14% of people said they think their home has become more valuable, compared with 17% in September and October. Halifax’s house price sentiment tracker fell from 52.4 […] The post Housing market confidence falls appeared first on PropertyWire.

December 01, 2020 2:00 PMKIEV (AFP) - Ukrainian chef Ievgen Klopotenko never expected to find himself at the centre of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

December 01, 2020 1:34 PMNEW YORK (REUTERS) - The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Dec 1), dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year.

December 01, 2020 11:45 AM"We want to know the origin and we will do everything to know the origin," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.