Warning over one million homes at risk
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More than a million homeowners could be at risk of serious financial difficulty in an economic slowdown, City regulator warns
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Mozambican Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has warned that heavy rains lashing the country could soon fuel an emergency and wreak more havoc than heavy floods in 2001 when nearly 1,000 people died.
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Homes destroyed and thousands of acres burned as President Bush declares major disaster.
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Two housing bodies say they have identified a need for tens of thousands of affordable homes in Wales.
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The number of Americans facing the loss of their homes soared 75% last year, according to a report.
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Hundreds are warned they may face problems from ops under an assembly government bid to cut waiting lists.
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A Â£30m online map is launched telling homeowners in England and Wales what risk of flooding they face.
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Damages from the wildfires in California's San Diego County were expected to exceed $1 billion, a top official said on Wednesday.
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About one million cribs designed by Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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More than 1,000 people may have died in mudslides caused by a typhoon in the Philippines, officials warn.
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Some 1.6 million children in Britain are homeless or living in 'unfit' housing, says homelessness charity Shelter.
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Confusion over home information packs is fuelling a surge in the supply of houses, experts warn.
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The Planning Service is inundated with a flood of applications for new housing developments.
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Â· Up to Â£250m a year needed, say insurersÂ· Three dead and hundreds evacuated from homes.
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National housing advocacy group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now released a study showing the Boston metropolitan area had one foreclosure filing for every 177 households, ranking 75th out of 100 major US cities in 2006.
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HONG KONG  - At least 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds more are injured or missing as tsunami tidal waves unleashed by a massive earthquake off Indonesia hit the region.
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After decades putting up -- and tearing down -- hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge: to produce communities that last.