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With rental values rising across the country, property investor appetite among landlords is unsurprisingly growing, with one in five landlords having added additional residential property assets to their portfolios during 2011, according to the latest Young Index report of Private Rented Sector.

The report says that investor activity was driven by positive expectations for both capital growth and income returns for the year ahead.

New homes developer Linden Homes is celebrating its best January for five years - selling a home a day for the entire month.

The early part of 2012 has already seen new homes sales top £5m at the company's developments across Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire.

U.S. property tycoon Donald Trump will almost certainly withdraw a proposal to develop what he considered would be the "world's greatest golf course" and hundreds of new homes in Aberdeenshire due to plans to develop an offshore windfarm.

New homes builder Banner Homes has announced a new £120m bank facility that will enable the firm to buy more land and plan ahead for the construction of more new homes.

The funding was secured with three major banks, RBS, HSBC and Santander. This four year facility will secure the future growth of Banner Homes and allow the firm to accelerate its land and development operations. In addition Banner's major shareholder has extended its investment loan until December 2015.

More landlords should consider buying "hassle free" new build homes which are instantly ready for occupancy upon completion makng them ideal buy-to-let investments, according to north-London based estate agency Robert Anthony.

Adam Feather, the company's managing director, says that new homes are a "landlords dream" because they do not require any modifications and are immediately ready to let out to tenants.

Housebuilder Bellway has announced that reservations for its new build homes has increased in recent months raising hopes that the country's housing market is improving particularly the new build sector.

High demand for new homes means that visitor levels have remained steady despite wider economic concerns, with reservations between August and the end of November having increased, pushing the average selling price up by 7%, thanks to a shift towards building more family homes.

Housing provider Affinity Sutton and new homes developer Mount Anvil believe that the values of homes located in the City fringes of the centre of London could reach new heights next year thanks to the introduction of a new landmark development called Silicon Tower.

The two companies plan to develop the new homes on 261 City Road, London, EC1, in a joint venture. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects, who designed the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has already been appointed as architects for the delivery of the scheme.

With research showing that more landlords are actively looking to add to their property portfolios in the coming months, Lee Watts, managing director of Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward estate agents, believes that housebuilders will increase the supply of

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Housebuilder CALA Group Limited has reported a 45% increase in home sales for the year ending June 2011, on the back of a general improvement in the new homes sector.

The company sold 649 new homes over the period compared to 449 new homes during the previous financial year.

A growing number of housebuilders want to construct new homes in London, while increasingly ignoring other parts of the country, because prospects for price growth are far greater in the capital.