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🔥 Kitchen Gadget Trends of 2025: What’s Cooking in the Modern Home?

As the heart of the home continues to evolve, kitchens are becoming smarter, healthier, and more efficient than ever. In 2025, the latest kitchen gadget trends reflect a growing demand for high-tech tools that save time, promote wellness, and deliver restaurant-quality results—right from your countertop.

Whether you're a seasoned chef or a weeknight warrior, here are the must-have gadgets...

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Purchase a London pad with a pal at Leaside Lock

With the capital’s property prices continuing to rise, a recent survey has found that more than one third of buyers would consider purchasing a property with a friend.* Whether it’s to split the mortgage and household costs, or for the social benefits of sharing a space, the demand for part owning a home with a friend is becoming a popular route onto the property ladder.

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Couple Enjoy Retirement in a Bungalow in Morriston

WHEN retiree Vicky Jones was looking for a new, more peaceful, home, a bungalow was the last thing on her mind.

But when she and husband Philip saw the Budleigh bungalow show home on the first phase of the award-winning Parc Ceirw Garden Village in Morriston, she knew she had to have it.

Vicky, a former care home team leader, says: “I knew from the minute I saw it, it was my...

Fuel and energy costs outpace house price growth

Stipendium, the platform that simplifies life’s complex events , has revealed that while house prices continue to climb to record highs, homebuyers struggling to save are being hit hardest by the increase in household living costs, when it comes to the annual change of both energy and fuel.

House prices continue to climb and the latest Land Registry data on sold prices shows they’ve...

The Kitchen Design ‘Rules’ You Should Break

Julia Kendell, interior designer for the Homebuilding & Renovating Show , offers her tips on which kitchen design rules can be broken.

First of all, ignore the kitchen work triangle ‘rule’. This concept of ensuring minimal movement between the cooker, sink and fridge is a 100-year-old idea that is totally out of date now that we have a multitude of appliances, much larger...

L&Q to Host Homebuyer Event at L&Q at Huntley Wharf, Reading

On Saturday 21st May, L&Q is hosting a drop-in event for hopeful Shared Ownership buyers at their new development, Huntley Wharf in Reading, taking place between 10am and 4pm. Guests attending on the day will be able to take advantage of L&Q’s ‘Season Ticket’ incentive; meaning buyers who reserve a one-bedroom apartment before 31st May will receive a free 3-month season ticket for...

Marton Moss Homes Now On Sale

ELAN Homes has launched its second Lancashire development as it expands across the North West. New homes at Redwood Gardens, Marton Moss, on the Fylde Peninsula, have been released for sale off plan and by appointment only.

Spanning just over 10 acres, the site was the first Lancashire acquisition for Cheshire-based Elan.

The company has since acquired further sites in the...

Covid Cancelled Wedding Helps Couple Onto The Property Ladder

AFTER seven years of renting and two cancelled weddings, an impulse decision had a happy ending for Claire Rimmer and Paul Love.

Using their wedding fund as a deposit and with the aid of a Help to Buy equity loan, the couple have moved into a home of their own at Balmoral Gardens in Southport.

“We’d always talked about buying our own home but hadn’t really saved as it felt...

Boyer achieves Planning Consent for 235 new homes for Sleaford, Lincolnshire

National planning consultancy Boyer has achieved planning consent on behalf of Taylor Wimpey East Midlands for the development of 235 homes (of which 23 are dedicated affordable housing) on land at Stump Cross Hill, southeast of London Road, Handley Chase, Sleaford.

The 6.4ha site will form part of a new community also known as Sleaford South Quadrant Sustainable Urban Extension,...

Leading housebuilder supports the local area with new employment opportunities

Leading housebuilder, Barratt Developments Yorkshire East, which includes Barratt Homes and David Wilson homes brands, is creating multiple employment opportunities across the East Coast, following new sites in Whitby and Cayton.

Abbey View, the new development in Whitby, will consist of 233 homes, spanning a collection of two, three and four bedroom homes in order to meet the change...

Make the smart move South to Southmere on Saturday 21st May

On Saturday 21st May, Peabody are hosting an exclusive Shared Ownership open day event at their award winning Southmere development, in the South East London property hotspot, Thamesmead.

Perfect for first-time buyers, the brand new collection of 1, 2 and 3-bed apartments at Crane Court are available to purchase with Shared Ownership, a scheme which lowers some of the financial...

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