Latest Property News

• RBS will let investors bet on property falls
  

  Published 14th Feb 2010

  State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland plans to launch a product in the next six months that will allow investors to bet on house price falls

• Home repossessions fall in Q4
  

  Published 11th Feb 2010

  Fewer Britons had their homes repossessed in the final three months of 2009 and there was a sharp drop in the number of court orders for properties to be seized, data showed Thursday

• New property price index for Cyprus
  

  Published 11th Feb 2010

  The beleaguered Cyprus property market is set to benefit from a brand new property price index introduced by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in a bid to make the country's real estate market more transparent..

• One-fifth of US homeowners are 'underwater'
  

  Published 10th Feb 2010

  More than a fifth of US homeowners owed more than their properties were worth in the fourth quarter as the number of houses and condominiums lost to foreclosure climbed to a record, according to Zillow.com

• Dubai World wants $22bn debt freeze this month
  

  Published 10th Feb 2010

  Dubai World intends to ask creditors for a six-month standstill on $22bn in debt this month, until it completes restructuring, an Arabic-language daily said on Wednesday

• Upbeat estate agents return to web advertising
  

  Published 10th Feb 2010

  Estate agents are boosting their online property advertising in response to the rebound in the housing market, according to Rightmove, Britain’s biggest home search website

• British Land Q3 NAV value up 18 percent
  

  Published 09th Feb 2010

  British Land (BLND.L) posted an 18 percent rise in third-quarter net asset value on Tuesday, providing ballast to a rebounding UK property market still haunted by worries over loan defaults and tenant failures