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Property developers should not only take into account affordability when planning project, but also consider what age group they are building for, says the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says there may be ‘a few chinks of light' which may allow its members to avoid FSA regulatory requirements when selling insurance in the property or construction sector.

House prices slowed slightly for the first time in six months, signaling the property market is cooling figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggest.

Buy-to-let investors show no signs of wanting to sell their properties despite recent rate rise and speculation about a housing market bust, reveals the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

The UK property market is heading for new highs as annual house price inflation hit its highest pace since October 2002, suggests lthe atest survey by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has told the Financial Services Authority to get its "tanks off their lawn" and is voicing its objection to FSA regulation of the insurance market surrounding property management.

The UK housing market is steaming ahead full pelt according to a troika of surveys just out, which will more than offset news inflation as measured by the government's preferred index fell last month.

Housing markets in the UK, Spain, France and Ireland saw double-digit growth in 2003, but none are expected to maintain such high rates of inflation during 2004, suggests the RICS European housing survey.