It remains a fantastic time to move and buy property in Devon and the wider south west as house prices are continuing their unrelenting rise. New figures show the average cost of rising up the property ladder is a huge seventeen percent higher than around 5 years ago. 

The Lloyds Bank Homemovers Review says that the average 'step-up' home in the South West is priced at £256,318. However, a few property hotspots like Salcombe in Devon and Padstow in Cornwall cost much more.
 

Andrew Mason, L...

The latest research from Halifax has shown that there were approximately 12% more first time buyers in 2012, an increase of 193,000 since 2011. This is the largest annual total since 2007.

Halifax’s research further detailed that the average price paid by the typical first time buyer in November 2012 was affordable based on the average UK wage.

The typical property price paid by a first time buyer last year was £139,921 showing a 3% increase on 2011. The Telegraph recently reported that appr...