Latest Property News

• Nationwide's sneaky raid on mortgage borrowers
  

  Published 13th May 2010

  Nationwide borrowers who rent out their homes face a massive 1.5 percentage points rise in their interest

• Smile returns to estate agents’ faces
  

  Published 11th May 2010

  Estate agents reported a rise in house prices and increased demand and sales in April, despite predictions of a pre-election slowdown

• Dubai house prices up but oversupply looms
  

  Published 10th May 2010

  The completion of a “significant” number of new homes in Dubai later year will further pressure prices that rose 2% in the first quarter, Colliers International said

• Lenders provide boost for landlords
  

  Published 10th May 2010

  Landlords who have struggled to remortgage since the credit crunch struck have been offered a glimmer of hope after one of the UK’s biggest buy-to-let lenders loosened the criteria on its new deals

• Interest rates stay at 0.5% as Bank of England reassures markets
  

  Published 10th May 2010

  The Bank of England has kept interest rates at a record low of 0.5 per cent for the 14th consecutive month, it announced today

• The council snoopers sizing up your garden for a 'tax database'
  

  Published 07th May 2010

  Details of every garden in England have been put on a database by government officials

• Mortgage lending dives 83% as housing recovery runs out of steam
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  Mortgage lending was down 83per cent during March, fuelling speculation that the housing market recovery has stalled