Plymouth City Council is launching an awareness campaign to remind people to inform them of any changes in circumstances for housing benefits.
The ‘It’s great to be up to date’ campaign - which has been grant funded by the Department of Work and Pensions - aims to encourage more people to come forward and tell the Council about important life changes.
With average house prices in Plymouth now reaching a staggering £177,000, over a third of people in Plymouth (36 percent) are avoiding the property ladder and looking for other means of shelter to call home.
A survey carried out by LOOK Insurance, the boat and caravan insurance specialists, found a whopping 36 percent of residents in Plymouth still don’t own their own home.
More homes in Plymouth are getting disabled adaptations, including the conversion of two houses into one for a severely disabled teenager.
The teenager and their family (who do not want to be named), will move into the latest house which has been adapted at Cherry Tree Gardens, Plymouth on Friday 3 July.
Plymouth City Council, Taylor Wimpey and Westward Housing Group had to...
House price growth increased again in the South West in June, pointing to renewed acceleration in house price inflation during the second half of the year, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.
In the region, 50% more surveyors expect house prices to rise over the next three months, which is the highest proportion since April 2014. As new instructions continue to...
New improved homes, more jobs and training are in the pipeline as the third phase of a major £168million housing regeneration project moves a step closer.
When complete, the North Prospect development, a joint project between Plymouth Community Homes and Plymouth City Council, will see up to 1,100 new homes being built and 300 homes refurbished to meet a higher standard. Phase 1 is now...
A new rent-to-own housing model that will give thousands of tenants their first step onto the housing ladder has been launched with plans to deliver 5,000 affordable homes across England by 2020.
The new model has been created by housing company Rentplus with the financial backing of private and institutional investors and the first agreements to deliver 900 homes have been approved by...
As more powers shift from Whitehall to town halls, the South West Housing Initiative (SWHI) is rallying businesses to call for politicians to shape UK devolution in a way which will solve the region’s housing crisis. This crisis is having a detrimental impact on businesses.
SWHI, a partnership of housing professionals committed to combating the region’s housing crisis, said that...
New research identifies emerging social tribes –‘first time flyers’, ‘first time triers’ and ‘renting lifers’
Families in the South West who are never able to get on the property ladder will be more than £603,800 worse off over their lifetime than those who can buy a home in their twenties, new research from Shelter shows.
The unique study by the housing charity paints a...
Ash Mill Developments Limited has released a collection of three houses with private water frontage and running moorings in Newton Ferrers, South Devon.
Each house at Riverside Newton Ferrers will be different and all will all be finished to a high specification, offering the charm of period style whilst still having all of the amenities required for 21st Century living. Each house...
Think buying a house and you think estate agents. But increasingly people in the South-West are turning to auctions to buy a home or land because they want the certainty a deal will go through.
The number of “fall-throughs” – the term used for when the house buying process falls apart for after a sale has been agreed – has increased by 12% since 2013. Combined with the popularity of TV...
