Latest Property News

• Receivers appointed to £150m Piccadilly Estate
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  Allsop has been appointed as LPA Receiver of the Piccadilly Estate in central London, including the former premises of the In & Out Club at 90-100 Piccadilly

• DCOG loses £4.3bn in property slump
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group (DCOG), the real estate and hospitality business, today reported a net loss of 22.8 billion dirhams (£4.3 billion) for last year

• Capital Gains fears send rents soaring
  

  Published 02nd Jun 2010

  Rents are soaring as fears over capital gains tax threaten to kill off the struggling buy-to-let sector

• Lloyds scraps mortgage cap
  

  Published 01st Jun 2010

  Lloyds TSB, which owns Cheltenham & Gloucester, will no longer give new mortgage customers a rate guarantee once their introductory rate comes to an end

• The growing CGT rebellion: Fear of tax grab sparks mass sale of homes and shares
  

  Published 01st Jun 2010

  Homes are flooding on to the property market and shares are being dumped by worried investors who hope to dodge the Government's controversial plans to hike Capital Gains Tax

• Lloyds lifts standard variable rate as mortgage pledge dents profits
  

  Published 28th May 2010

  Lloyds TSB has become the second big lender to buckle under the pressure of guaranteeing that its standard variable rate will not rise more than 2% above the Bank of England's base rate: the bank is to introduce a second, more expensive rate for new borrowers from 1 June

• C&G pushes up rates for new customers
  

  Published 28th May 2010

  Cheltenham & Gloucester (C&G), part of the Lloyds Banking Group, has hiked its standard variable rate (SVR) for new mortgage customers, potentially raising the cost of monthly repayments on a typical loan by £185 a month