Latest Property News

• Tel Aviv investor secures pioneering online deal
  

  Published 20th May 2010

  A private investor in Tel Aviv has become the first Israeli to exchange contracts online while buying an investment property in the UK

• Buy-to-let landlords rush to sell before capital gains tax rise
  

  Published 20th May 2010

  Estate agents are being deluged with inquiries from panicked buy-to-let landlords hoping to offload properties before proposed increases in capital gains tax (CGT)

• America’s one in ten still suffering in loan crisis
  

  Published 20th May 2010

  More than one homeowner in ten in the United States missed at least one mortgage payment in the first quarter of the year, setting a record that suggests America’s housing and repossession crisis is far from over

• Dubai World reaches deal over $23bn debt
  

  Published 20th May 2010

  Dubai World, Dubai’s debt-laden group, said that it had reached an agreement “in principle” with most of its bank lenders to restructure its $23.5 billion (£16 billion) debt

• Great Portland swoops in the City
  

  Published 19th May 2010

  Great Portland Estates is close to sealing two acquisitions that could pave the way for a 600,000 sq ft prime City of London office scheme

• Mortgage lending jumps 45% as first-time buyers return to market
  

  Published 19th May 2010

  House purchase lending increased by 45% year on year in March, the ninth consecutive month of growth, according to figures published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders today

• Asking prices edge higher but demand falls
  

  Published 19th May 2010

  Asking prices edged up by 0.7 per cent in the four weeks to May 8, despite a fall in demand from buyers, according to new figures from Rightmove.com, the property website