Homes & Gardens

More residents will soon be able to install energy efficiency measures into their homes thanks to an extra £3 million secured by Plymouth City Council.

The announcement follows a bid to the Department of Energy and Climate Change as part of their Green Deal Communities Fund.

Plymouth is one of only 24 Local Authorities across the country to be awarded funds following a very...

A third (33%) of parents in the South West now see it as their ‘parental duty’ to contribute to their child’s first property purchase, with nearly half (49%) gifting over £10,000 to their child and one in eight (12%) over £50,000, according to new research from QualitySolicitors.

In the process, parents in the region are making major sacrifices, with one in five (20%) of parents in...

Thousands of renters in the South West are too scared of being evicted to ask their private landlord to fix a problem in their home, according to Shelter research released today.

A YouGov poll of more than 4,500 private renters across the country found that 1 in 12 renters (8%) in the South West avoided asking their landlord to repair a problem or improve conditions in the last year...

Local people must say ‘Yes to Homes’ to repair the South West housing market according to a report by the National Housing Federation (NHF).

The report by the NHF, an industry body which represents the providers of affordable housing in the UK, claims that a shortage of affordable homes resulting in rising house prices means that the South West housing market is now at ‘breaking point...