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One of the country’s most popular tourist destinations may ban the sale of new builds to second home buyers. The council in Padstow -...

What’s the happiest place in Britain? Rightmove has the answer. In a new ‘Happy At Home’ index calculated by the portal and...

Another west country tourist hotspot looks set to ban any future new-build home being sold as a holiday or additional property. Bigbury...

Another westcountry town may ban new-build homes being sold as holiday properties, even though the idea has backfired elsewhere. Fowey in Cornwall -...

You are an enterprising lot! Today we’ve got two fantastic Christmas videos from agents who’ve kindly responded to our call for...

A new study by the London School of Economics suggests that a high profile ban on the sale of new homes...

A bid to ban the building of new homes for out-of-town buyers has backfired on a Cornish community - and now...

There’s been a landslide vote to ban new-build second homes in another tourist hotspot. Some 90 per cent of those who voted...

Holiday home sales in one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations are holding up, despite stamp duty and the age...

With the year in full swing we have some more heroic fund-raising and grant-giving stories to tell this week. Thanks so much...

This might just be one of the busiest Agents Do Charity columns we’ve ever had with many firms having a mixture...

Two more local referendums have, as expected, agreed neighbourhood plans which ban the sale of new-build homes to anyone other than...

Residents in two parts of Cornwall will vote tomorrow on whether to join the holiday resort of St Ives in banning...

A solicitor has asked how the ban on the sale of new-build apartments and houses to holiday home buyers in a...

The result of a referendum in a tourist hotspot seeking a ban on the sale of new-build flats and houses to...

A key decision that may have far-reaching implications for the sale of holiday homes has been delayed by a High Court...

Next week sees a court case which will decide whether there will have to be a re-run of the ‘second homes...

The highest number of second homes in UK local authority areas exist not in the south west, the Lake District or...

There is likely to be an October court date set for a judicial review into a ban on new-build houses and...

A report says agents in the Cornish holiday home haven of St Ives admit the local market has been hit by...

With a number of agent partner programmes available nationwide, estate agents can often increase business by offering sales by auction, especially...

The MP who pledged his support to a campaign against portal juggling has now submitted an application for a Westminster Hall...

A judicial review into the process surrounding the controversial 'second homes referendum' in St Ives means the result could, in theory,...

A Conservative MP is to raise the portal juggling controversy in the House of Commons. Derek Thomas, MP for St Ives in...

Estate agency marketing organisation Cream Club - formally known as Cabec Limited - has been put into administration. It was almost two...