Latest Property News

• Regus angers landlords with insolvency threat
  

  Published 12th Mar 2010

  A simmering row between some of Britain's largest landlords and Regus, the biggest provider of serviced offices, broke out today after the company threatened to put parts of its business into administration unless it reached agreement on a package of rental cuts and other concessions

• Wetherspoon set to expand as financing secured
  

  Published 11th Mar 2010

  Pubs group JD Wetherspoon (JDW.L) unveiled a new 530 million pound debt facility today, giving it the firepower to ramp up expansion as its struggling rivals look to sell assets

• Millions of families' homes are at risk from shock interest rate rises or falls in property prices, warns financial regulator
  

  Published 11th Mar 2010

  Millions of families' homes are at risk from shock interest rate rises or falls in property prices, Britain's financial regulator warned yesterday

• Commercial property may cause new crisis, says FSA
  

  Published 11th Mar 2010

  The City watchdog has sounded alarm about the prospect of a meltdown in commercial property

• Costain sees nuclear future
  

  Published 11th Mar 2010

  The boom in school and hospital building is over and the future of civil engineering is nuclear, according to Costain, the engineering and construction group

• Northern Rock: more than 4% of mortgage customers are in arrears
  

  Published 10th Mar 2010

  More than 22,500 Northern Rock customers – over 4% - have missed monthy mortgage payments, the nationalised mortgage lender admitted today as it reported a sharp fall in losses for last year

• Npower joins the gang with a 7% gas price cut
  

  Published 10th Mar 2010

  Npower became the fourth of the UK’s big six energy companies to cut its prices yesterday, reducing its gas bills by 7 per cent in a move that will benefit about two million households