HOUSE prices in the North continue to tumble, with the average value of a house dropping below £150,000 (€175,616) for the first time in five years.

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A team including fraud investigators has started a major review of the organisation responsible for social housing in the North.

The chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board is delaying his return to office until a police investigation into his involvement in a Belfast land deal is completed.

The office and home of Northern Ireland Policing Board chairman Barry Gilligan were searched as part of an police investigation into a Belfast land deal.

The average house price has risen slightly in the North in a sign that the property market's steep decline may be levelling out, it emerged today.

A policeman forced from his home by dissident republican threats on his life must not be used as a pawn in a political push for extra funds, the North's First Minister said today.

The North's house prices have continued their downward plunge – showing a year-on-year drop of 35% during the first quarter of this year.

More than 100 homes used by soldiers during the Troubles are to be converted for people in housing need, it was announced today.

Millions are being wasted on energy inefficiency in homes throughout the North, new research claimed today.

A drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre on the border has been forced to close its doors because it could not address health and fire safety concerns, it emerged tonight.

Transport services in the North are facing major disruption today due to a strike by public service workers.

The British government has announced plans to more than halve the number of unelected public bodies operating in the North.

House prices in the North are now growing by an annual rate of 13%, a new report revealed today.

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is to work on two pilot projects for integrated housing, it confirmed today.

Home repair workers in north Belfast have walked out after loyalist paramilitary threats to staff, it was revealed today.

THE cost of providing safe houses for people facing death threats from Northern paramilitaries has sent the cost of protection schemes operated by the British authorities spiralling.

BIC Systems, a Belfast provider of IT solutions and skills throughout Ireland and the UK, has officially opened its eBusiness Systems Centre The Centre employs 70 people.

The SDLP is to press for National Insurance numbers to be used at polling stations in a bid to stamp out electoral fraud, the party revealed today.