Latest Property News

• Buy-to-let tax break plan attacked as further blow to first-time buyers
  

  Published 16th Mar 2010

  Thousands of first time buyers will be priced out of the housing market if the Treasury presses ahead with plans to offer new tax breaks to buy-to-let investors, campaigners warn today

• Asking prices hit by sudden increase in homes for sale
  

  Published 16th Mar 2010

  The number of homeowners selling their properties rose to an 18-month high in March, bringing down the rate of increase in asking prices to the lowest level recorded

• Rightmove: UK market 'unpredictable'
  

  Published 16th Mar 2010

  The annual growth in asking prices for residential property in England and Wales slowed in March for the first time in a year after a glut of houses came on to the market, property website Rightmove said on Monday

• Lloyds to spin off billions in property assets
  

  Published 14th Mar 2010

  Lloyds Banking Group is believed to be considering plans to hive off a portion of its giant commercial property portfolio into a separate, tax-efficient company

• Mortgage lending falls as buyers leave market
  

  Published 12th Mar 2010

  Homebuyers abandoned the housing market in January after the end of the holiday on stamp duty

• Scottish Power trumps EDF with gas prices cut
  

  Published 12th Mar 2010

  Scottish Power has become the latest company to reduce the price of its gas, doubling the cut made by rival EDF Energy just hours earlier

• HSBC launches 1.99% discount mortgage
  

  Published 12th Mar 2010

  HSBC is offering a market beating discount mortgage with a rate of 1.99% from Monday