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Scroll down for great legacy foundation video and please SHARE THE VIDEO SPREAD THE WORD.  Property and football joined teams in Cannes today as former England captain Rio Ferdinand football legend [centre photo] and housing minister Brandon Lewis  [far right] launched a new scheme to build thousands of affordable homes across the country. [R to L] Former England Captain Rio Ferdinand supported by star footballers Mark Noble and Bobby Zamora The ex-Manchester defender and fellow football stars Mark Noble [above right] and Bobby Zamora [above left] have clubbed together to set up Legacy, a charity designed to create sports-led mixed use regeneration schemes with McLaren as development partner and  Construction & Property Consultants, Stace LLP , Colliers   International - UK   as an real estate adviser. KSS Design Group  Architecture and Design,  kssgroup.com based in London. football legend Rio...

Ministerial foreword Thirty years ago, young people knew, if they worked hard, they would have the opportunity  to buy their own home. Today young people are working just as hard as their parents’  generation but are increasingly finding it difficult to get on the property ladder. Only 38% of  people under the age of 40 now own their home compared with 61% in the early 1990s. The Government is determined to change this and make home ownership more affordable  for a generation of people in their twenties and thirties. At the heart of our plans is the  commitment to build 200,000 quality starter homes by 2020 exclusively for young first time  buyers at a 20% discount on market value. We are introducing a comprehensive package of reforms and initiatives to meet this commitment, including £2.3 billion funding in the Spending Review to support up to 60,000  starter homes. As the Prime Minister announced in January, £1.2 billion of this funding is...

As Chinese property investors heat up prices in many of the world's biggest cities, China buyers are now searching beyond traditional hot spots for bargains and higher returns, ranging from land in Dubai to student housing in Manchester. The investors range from wealthy individuals and private equity funds buying residential units to companies and funds setting up local joint ventures to invest in property projects STUDENT DORMS Student housing, already a hot target for private equity, is also increasingly attracting Chinese investors, some of whom buy such properties without even visiting them first. "It's different if you're buying a 3 million pound ($4.16 million) mansion in London and you want to see it. They're buying primarily for investment, as long as the figures are right they'd be buying anything," said Julie Harvey, director of property investment company Pinnacle Alliance based in London . The Sell , Salford Manchester   ...