Latest Property News

• Deloitte expands into commercial property with Drivers Jonas deal
  

  Published 22nd Jan 2010

  Deloitte, Britain’s second-biggest professional services group, is to seize a foothold in the £2 billion commercial property consulting market by acquiring one of Britain’s oldest real estate firms

• London Mayor launches 'rents map'
  

  Published 21st Jan 2010

  In order to give landlords, tenants and letting agents the inside track on the private rented sector in London, Boris Johnson has launched a new website offering the chance to view a new online pricing guide to property..

• Mortgage lending soars 14% in rush to beat end of stamp duty holiday
  

  Published 21st Jan 2010

  Mortgage lending jumped by 14 per cent during December as people rushed to buy a home before the Government's stamp duty holiday ended, figures showed today

• Mortgage costs leap as Skipton Building Society lifts rate
  

  Published 21st Jan 2010

  Tens of thousands of borrowers face a shock jump in mortgage payments after Skipton Building Society, Britain’s fifth-largest building society, confirmed plans to raise its standard variable rate from 3.5 per cent to 4.95 per cent

• Buying a home costs four times as much as 50 years ago, says Halifax
  

  Published 21st Jan 2010

  Buying a home costs four times as much as it did half a century ago in real terms, according to research by Halifax

• Mortgage war launched by foreign banks
  

  Published 20th Jan 2010

  Big foreign banks have sparked a mortgage price war which is squeezing interest rates and forcing home-grown lenders to revise their best deals at an ever-increasing rate

• Rival lenders cut tracker rates
  

  Published 20th Jan 2010

  Renewed competition in the mortgage market has prompted the UK's biggest lenders to cut the cost of new home loans and ease lending criteria