The Property Directory

Property information, real estate and house price directory for the UK and worldwide.

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Property portals - for sale and to rent

The place to start if you are looking for listings of houses and flats to rent or buy.

Property search engines

Search engines that aggregate property listings from portals or estate agents.

Property blogs

Read what the most influential property bloggers are saying about the housing market.

Sell your home

The Little House Company - online private house sales.
Tepilo - Sarah Beeny's flashy effort at private selling - not many listings though.

Property and house prices research

Zoopla - free UK sold house prices paid, home value estimates from their uber-algorithm plus listings too; cool mashup
HM Land Registry - official government site offering free basic information and various forms and paid for services

Property articles and features

AOL Property - property channel on AOL.
BBC Homes and Property - good ole auntie provides some handy guides, articles and market stats.
Channel 4 - 4 Homes - if you can't get enough of Phil, Kirstie and co off the telly.
Estate Agency News - industry insider newspaper and website.
Guardian - see what the liberals haev been writing about.
Independent
Telegraph
Times - Rupert Murdoch says...

Property forums and communities

GlobalHousePriceCrash - pure forum, old school style
HousePriceCrash - predictions, data, forum discussions
AskMe property community - property question and answer format on Zoopla

Property software and services

Estate Create - create your own website to advertise your house, flat or cottage.
Home Flow - simple estate agent websites, tools and software.
Expert Agent - popular estate agent website and office management software.
DezRez - popular estate agent website and office management software.

Government and industry bodies

National Association of Estate Agents - industry body representing about half of agents
Ombudsman of Estate Agents - industry arbitration & standards body for their member agents

Holiday rentals

Holiday Rentals - thousands of holiday rental properties across UK, Europe and US, mostly let directly by owners.
Holiday Lettings - another UK site offering similar services

Estate agents

Letting agents

New homes websites

New home developers

Property auctions

Local information

Property valuations

Mortgages

Property tweets

Property news

The cost of keeping warm in an old house
Just over a week ago my wife and I were pacing the bare wooden floor of our sitting room wearing hats and scarves. It was -2C outside and, clearly, not much warmer inside. We had a fire lit and the central heating going full blast, but did it make any difference? No. As we ...

We?re all in this together
What do you share with your neighbours? A cup of sugar? A dividing wall? Despair over the way that your recycling boxes always seem to be thrown back over the hedge?

Time and Place: Manda Scott
We moved to a new house in Eaglesham when I was 18 months old. At the time, it was wonderful and exciting to live in a brand new building. Ever since then, I?ve always tried to live in the oldest house I can find.

Ask the experts: the solicitor and the tech consultant
The solicitor

Upwardly mobile: finding a future hot spot
The mini boom that the housing market has experienced in recent months, confounding experts and buyers alike, may be over. Halifax reported last week that prices fell by 1.5% last month ? an even sharper drop than the 1% decline already reported by the Nationwide. The feare ...

Wormold's Week: strawberries and horseradish
Special cold-stored, bare-rooted strawberry plants can be put in now to flower and fruit in 60-90 days? time. Select a variety such as ?Florence? or ?Hapil?, planting 12in apart in a sunny spot with good, well-drained soil. Alternatively, raise in grow bags, containers and ...

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