Latest Property News

• Property market 'returning to normal'
  

  Published 24th Mar 2010

  The property market is returning to more normal conditions as increasing numbers of people put their homes up for sale, research has showed

• FSA faces opposition to ban on 100% mortgages
  

  Published 24th Mar 2010

  The City watchdog has met with opposition to its proposals to ban riskier "100 per cent mortgages" which require borrowers to put down little or none of their own equity, it said today

• Skipton risks action over broken promise
  

  Published 22nd Mar 2010

  Skipton Building Society's decision to renege on a guarantee given to 64,000 mortgage borrowers could yet come back to haunt it

• Savills cautious after 24% drop in 2009 profit
  

  Published 18th Mar 2010

  Savills today reported a 24% drop in underlying pretax profit for 2009 and cautioned that its performance for this year would be similar

• FSA chairman Lord Turner calls for end to 100% mortgages
  

  Published 18th Mar 2010

  The City's top regulator has called for curbs on 100% mortgages and a return to mortgage rationing to prevent another boom and bust in the housing market

• Hundreds of British expats stage march in Malaga over plans to demolish 'illegal' holiday homes
  

  Published 18th Mar 2010

  Hundreds of furious expats have staged a march in Malaga today over Spanish government plans to demolish illegally built holiday homes in Andalucia

• Mortgage arrears cases fall by 4%
  

  Published 17th Mar 2010

  The number of borrowers behind with mortgage repayments fell by 4% in the last quarter of 2009, as low interest rates continued to help homeowners meet their monthly bills, figures showed today