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UK house prices increased by 6.1% in the year to September 2015, up from 5.5% in the year to August 2015. House price annual inflation was 6.4% in England, 1.1% in Wales, 1.1% in Scotland and 10.2% in Northern Ireland. Annual house price increases in England were...

BBC News reported online today that the London housing market has formed the world's biggest house price bubble, according to the Swiss bank, UBS. It said the ratios of property prices to incomes, and property prices to rents, have reached all-time highs. And it...

Huddersfield Town Football Club's commercial partners and sponsors were invited to join Bastion Estates for a Property Academy event. Hosted at PPG Canalside around fourty local and regional business people took part in a Q & A session. On stage representing Bastion...

We are staggered by the former business minister Sir Vince Cable poorly informed, naive and narrow minded  views on the UK buy to pet property market. The below is taken from Property Industry Eye and it's almost laughable. Comment on things you know about, and have...

Working in a small team and ultimately being self employed means there is no escape from work. I'm not sure if I respect people that can shut off from their work when they get home or feel sorry for their overall mindset. Family holidays are always littered by work...

UK rental price growth slows but still over 10% higher than a year ago Rent price rises slowed in every region of the UK over the three months to August 2015 compared to the previous three months, the latest lettings index shows, but they are still rising at double...

UK house prices rose by 3.2% year-on-year in August, according to the latest survey from mortgage provider Nationwide. That is the weakest annula pace rsince June 2013, and marks a slight slowdown from July. Month on month, prices rose by 0.3% in August, compared with...

Bastion Estates were one of the many guests invited along by Big Property Sale to York Races. This annual event is always a great day out and huge credit to Richard Brown's (MD of Big Property Sale) generosity. There were around fifty of us and all from the property...

Not quite as the title suggests but Bastion Estates was talked into a last minute Man of the Match sponsorship opportunity at Huddersfield Town AFC. The 'mighty' Terriers (hence the mad dogs) were hosting Brighton & Hove Albion. Our select band of supporters...

Another week when it's great to see more referrals. A phone call from a new house builder asking if we can help sell some houses for him. We had never heard of him before nor had we heard of his company, so the obvious question is why call us! The answer is great to...