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Two first-home-buying couples battled it out for the five-bedroom Victorian terrace in Richmond, with the bank of mum and dad on hand to help to win the keys.

The trend marks a stark turn from earlier this decade, when sellers often received well above their asking price as home shoppers empowered by rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy that sent home prices soaring.

Apple is facing complaints of damaged screens on its newly launched iPhone Duo , with some early buyers reporting cracks and display failures only hours after using the company’s first foldable smartphone. Images shared on Reddit appear to show damage concentrated around the hinge of the device’s inner display, with vertical cracks running down the centre an

Apple's global launch of the foldable iPhone Duo brought scalpers to the Beijing flagship store looking to pay big for the already pricey devices.

The Your First Home scheme will offer government-backed loans for those buying new-builds in England.

BPFI report indicates there were 8,164 first-time buyer mortgages drawn down in third quarter

Seasoned Egyptian screenwriter and producer Mariam Naoum sees no shortage of creative talent in Arab television. The harder question is how to give that talent the time, development and routes to market it needs to thrive and build lasting careers. As head of the newly launched CineGouna Series, El Gouna Film Festival’s first development program […]

Buyers of properties in this Canberra suburb say they have been left stranded as they grapple with incomplete works while locked in contractual disputes with the builder.

Everything has a selling price, and in Xbox's case, Microsoft's gaming division could be worth at least $100 billion. That's according to a new report, which claims that several private equity firms mulled purchasing Xbox and were willing to go as high as $150 billion for Microsoft's gaming hub--enough cash to buy 15 billion rubber duckies, 50 billion McDoub