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UK house prices in 2016: Where the property market is going
House price growth set to slow as London market plateaus amid affordability problems.
UK housing crisis: Prices to jump 50% in next 10 years says CEBR report
The average price of a house in the UK is expected to be £419,000 by 2025.
Council house for life abolished? The proposed tenancy changes explained
Housing minister Brandon Lewis proposes end to 'home for life' council housing.
Fergus and Judith Wilson to exit buy-to-let business with £250m sale
Move follows recent government measures that raise taxes on landlords.
UK house prices: Will George Osborne's Help to Buy Isa scheme help first-time buyers?
Help to Buy Isa scheme will be introduced on 1 December.
UK housing crisis: Sorry George Osborne but 400,000 new homes is still not good enough
Osborne extends Help to Buy to London and promises hundreds of thousands more homes.
Autumn Statement verdict: Despite tax credits U-turn, Osborne still hits most vulnerable
Chancellor George Osborne delivered u-turns on tax credits and police cuts in his spending review.
UK house prices: Five reasons we should start worrying
Halifax signals yet more strong house price growth in the UK, but others sound warning siren.
Housing crisis: England requires more than 1.5m homes in five years
England needs to build 312,000 homes every year for the next 5 years to meet growing demand.
London Living Wage: Why £9.40 an hour is still not enough
Boris Johnson unveils higher London Living Wage as 724 employers back bigger pay.
UK house prices: Three quarters of Britons think costs will increase in 2016
In the UK, 37% of people think the low interest rates are pushing up house prices.
Landlord checks modern version to 'no dogs, no blacks, no Irish' signs warns Labour
Forcing landlords to check tenants' immigration status would lead to 'everyday racism', Labour has warned.
UK housing crisis: David Cameron's 'Starter Homes' flop leaves Generation Rent out in the cold
Starter Homes will not provide any meaningful solution to the shortage of housing in the UK.
UK housing: 90% of tenants unaware of new law banning 'revenge evictions' by landlords
Renters unaware of law protecting them from retaliatory evictions if they complain about property.
UK landlords add £161m to tenants' bills by not allowing them to switch energy suppliers
Landlords needlessly adding tens of millions to energy bills by wrongly imposing a 'preferred supplier'.
UK housing crisis: This is how Tim Farron would solve the homes shortage
Liberal Democrat leader sets up plan for ending UK housing shortage.
UK housing crisis: 55 people found crammed into just three terraced properties in Dagenham
Barking and Dagenham Council promises to clamp down on landlords making money from 'misery'.
Calais migrant crisis: This is what Eurotunnel asylum seekers get if they make it to Britain
Asylum seekers entitled to paltry weekly allowance and substandard housing.
London rents crisis: Room renting 'unaffordable for Living Wage earners' across entire city
SpareRoom.co.uk research shows the average cost of a room is unaffordable even in cheapest London postcode.
London rents crisis: We must steamroll over the greenbelt nimbys to get more houses built
The solution to London's housing crisis is complex, but relaxing planning rules plays a large part.
London rents crisis: 'I am looking for a slutty girl who wants to stay rent free in zone 1'
Poorest women at risk of sexual exploitation in London's evermore expensive housing market.
London rents crisis: Even property guardians are being gentrified
Property guardianship on the rise in London as the city's rents become unaffordable for many.
London rents crisis: A home on the city's canal boats and the zen of emptying the 's**t box'
More Londoners are taking to the city's waterways to escape the London housing crisis.
London rents crisis: Bedroom sharing and couch-surfing on the rise in an overcrowded city
Sharing a bedroom in London is the only way rents are affordable for some.
London rents crisis: This is how bad it is and things will get even worse [Infographic]
To kick off a series on London's worsening housing crisis, here is a stark infographic.
Summer budget 2015: UK still a 'buy-to-let paradise' despite Osborne's tax hike on landlords
Chancellor George Osborne targets buy-to-let mortgage relief for landlords in tax crackdown.
Summer budget 2015: Landlords targeted in tax relief crackdown by George Osborne
Osborne adjusts buy-to-let and rent-a-room reliefs so landlords pay more tax.
Conservatives promise fight over social housing and Housing Benefit cuts
David Cameron and George Osborne promise to 'take on' opponents to Tory's plans to reduce social housing.
Housebuilder Persimmon unaffected by General Election as sales expected to jump 12%
As property demand is a lot higher than supply it has become a popular safe haven investment.
UK rent prices almost twice as high as EU average
Soaring UK and London rent prices have made it impossible for a third of Londoners to live in the capital.