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Going up? The property market's top experts on what will happen to house prices in 2025

After a jam-packed year, could a brighter and more stable housing market be around the corner? Here’s our round-up of house price predictions from those in the know.

Dawn Chorus: The Secret of GK Chesterton, the owl-saving hero who's breaking the internet, and our Quiz of the Day

GK Chesterton's old house is up for sale in what is the final Dawn Chorus of 2024.

The most-viewed house of 2024 is a completely ordinary three-bed semi... with a literally fantastical interior

This incredible house in Rhyl, Wales, is emblazoned with murals of Disney characters. Do you dare step into the room full of villains?

The best wedding pictures you'll ever see, what's the point of a law you don't enforce and talking about gin with James May

Plus our property of the day and the quiz.

Dawn Chorus: Nature's 'wholesale fightback' is an inspiration for us all to keep trying

Tuesday's Dawn Chorus brings you five reasons to be cheerful — or six, if you count turning an austere City institution into a brightly-coloured Christmas delight.

Asian hornets losing ground, Britain's most bashed bridge bashed once again and how to buy a dinosaur

Plus sumptuous property for sale and our quiz of the day.

The cheetah playing hide-and-seek who's a Far Side cartoon come to life

A glorious cheetah has lit up our inbox this week — plus, can you help save the black poplar? And with the dust having settled, what does the budget really mean for country houses?

Minette Batters: 'I don’t believe this Government set out to wipe out the family farm. Yet it will be the consequence'

Minette Batters — a farmer, former NFU President and a Baroness sitting in the House of Lords — has a harsh warning for Keir Starmer's government.

Santa's making the kids cry, a vast organ finds its voice and letting the saltwater into Gloucestershire

Plus a very peculiar Northumberland property and the quiz of the day.

A spot of Bovaer: The dairy cow additive that's set tongues wagging isn't bad for anyone — and it's just what we need if we want both milk and clean air

Country Life's rural columnist Agromenes looks at the huge improvements being made to the air that we breathe, through the unlikeliest of ways.

Dawn Chorus: Symbiosis in action

A wonderful picture from Richmond Park and a look inside Country Life's biggest issue of the year.

What you'll find inside Country Life's 2024 Christmas Double issue, the biggest in 128 years of the magazine's history

Country Life 11/18 December 2024 is our iconic Christmas Double Issue, with 318 pages of Christmas cheer.

Dawn Chorus: Santa's sleigh up for sale, the Royal photographs and sketches going on show, plus our Quiz of the Day

Today's Dawn Chorus looks ahead to an exhibition set to delight at Buckingham Palace next year.

A farmhouse and 200 acres of the Lake District for sale at the same price as a two-bedroom flat in Barnet

A beautiful farm with spectacular views and potential to create a lifestyle business, plus a truly magical winter scene and our Quiz of the Day.

The happiest places to live in Britain, including the gorgeous town that's 'like living in a Constable painting'

This riverside spot has topped Rightmove’s annual ranking for the first time, taking the crown from Richmond upon Thames. Here’s why.

Britain has its own rainforests — and they're disappearing even faster than the ones in Brazil

The rainforests of Britain, a Cornwall light show, Christmas gardens and more in our Dawn Chorus round-up this morning.

Carla Carlisle: We've diversified, modernised and compromise — but now we're farming at a loss again for the first time since the 'Great Betrayal'

Carla Carlisle laments what has become of Wyken Farm — and worries how much worse it may yet get.

The best house for sale in the world right now, and we're furious that it's not in the UK

The gorgeous English city that's seen the nation's biggest house price rises in 2024

If you were thinking of moving to Winchester this time last year but didn't do anything about it, you might be left kicking yourself...

Killer whales with salmon hats, the secret lives of eels, the Nutcracker and some still lifes

Plus the quiz of the week, Country Life's best properties and the science of names.