Latest Property News

• Oz and NZ crackdown on foreign buyers
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  Australia is cracking down on foreign real estate buyers as they price ordinary people out of the real estate market and now calls for a similar move are being voiced in New Zealand..

• House prices to rise 5pc this year, predicts cebr
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  House prices will rise by 5 per cent during 2010 despite their sluggish start to the year, research claimed today

• Higher loan-to-value mortgages make slight return
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  Mortgage deals for homebuyers with smaller deposits are trickling back, with the Co-operative Bank and Britannia returning to 90% lending

• Property owners tell valuers ‘it’s your fault’ after crash
  

  Published 04th May 2010

  Legal actions against estate agents and surveyors reached record levels last year, as property owners counted the cost of steep falls in the values of their assets

• House price growth hits three-year high
  

  Published 29th Apr 2010

  House price growth has broken the double-digit barrier for the first time in almost three years, suggesting that confidence in the market has returned

• Housing market 'losing momentum' as election nears
  

  Published 27th Apr 2010

  The housing market continued to lose momentum during April as potential buyers remained cautious in the face of the general election, according to research by Hometrack, the property intelligence company

• Housebuilder Redrow forecasts profits revival
  

  Published 26th Apr 2010

  Property developer Redrow today predicted a return to profit for the first time since 2007 in another sign that the decline in the housing market is slowly improving