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1. 1. Quality schools affect house prices

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 December 2004 HOUSE prices "significantly" reflect the quality of local schools, according to a report published today.

2. 2. Home improvements 'top use for windfall'

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 28 September 2004 BRITONS are a nation of home-lovers, with one in four saying they would spend an unexpected windfall on their property, research claimed today.

3. 3. Prices biggest cause of housing crisis

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 October 2004 THE price of property is the top housing problem facing Britain today, according to research by the charity Shelter.

4. 4. Spotlight on Sandbach

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 11 August 2004 MOST people probably associate Sandbach with the dreary motorway service station - recently voted the UK's worst - not the historic market town. But if you come off the M6 for your coffee instead you will find a town of half-timbered buildings, lovely traditional high street and, if you visit on a Thursday, a market that dates back to Elizabethan times.

5. 5. Taking a bite out of the doughnut

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 March 2004 THEY call it the doughnut effect: a ring around Manchester of areas that are a ten-minute commute away from the centre but temptingly less expensive than the city proper.

6. 6. Spotlight on Bolton

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 October 2004 GOOD sized town with its own identity, Bolton was one of the first to realise that good town centre shopping can bring people in and revamped its Victorian market and added a modern shopping centre.

7. 7. Spotlight on Chester

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 25 August 2004 With medieval half-timbered buildings, quaint shopping rows, Roman ruins, and riverside walks, Chester is a chocolate box picture of English living.

8. 8. Homeowners feeling the pinch from rate rises

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 September 2004 NEARLY one in five homeowners admit they are now struggling to meet their mortgage repayments following recent interest rate rises, research showed today.

9. 9. Spotlight on Clitheroe

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 22 September 2004 FAVOURITE place for affluent commuters to Preston, Blackburn and Manchester because of the grammar school catchment and property prices have always been high here. A local authority ban on any more new building has further fuelled the market although some new apartments are being developed close to the town centre.

10. 10. Designs on the future

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 27 May 2004

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