Latest Property News

• Northern Rock directors fined and banned by FSA
  

  Published 13th Apr 2010

  Two former Northern Rock directors, including the deputy chief executive, have been fined and banned from regulated financial work

• Householders in a hurry to sell before the election 'decimates the property market'
  

  Published 13th Apr 2010

  Homeowners are rushing to sell their properties before the election, a report will reveal today

• MPs slate HMRC’s £3.9bn offshore PFI deal
  

  Published 09th Apr 2010

  HM Revenue and Customs has wasted taxpayers’ money by ineffectively running its 20-year PFI property management deal with offshore firm Mapeley, MPs have said today

• House prices rise 1.1% as market balances out
  

  Published 09th Apr 2010

  House prices rose by 1.1 per cent in March, as distortions to the housing market caused by the bad weather and the change in the stamp duty threshold in January began to even out

• Raffles Hotel sold to Qatari Diar for $275m
  

  Published 08th Apr 2010

  The historic Raffles Hotel in Singapore, famed for its colonial grandeur and the Singapore Sling cocktail, is to change hands in a deal worth $275 million (£180 million)

• Southampton City Council buys £25m office
  

  Published 07th Apr 2010

  Southampton City Council has bought a £25m office development it is set to occupy in the summer

• Property bounces back nine months earlier than expected
  

  Published 07th Apr 2010

  The strength of London’s economy has led to a recovery in commercial property rental values nine months earlier than expected, according to research from Cluttons