Latest Property News

• Barratt sales prices jump 4 per cent
  

  Published 14th Jan 2010

  Barratt Developments, the UK housebuilder, said today that a switch to building more houses rather than flats has led to a rise in average sales price of 4 per cent over the past six months

• China property prices accelerate
  

  Published 14th Jan 2010

  Chinese property prices rose at their fastest annual rate in 18 months in December, official figures show

• Aviva warns of shortfall in 88% of its mortgage endowments
  

  Published 13th Jan 2010

  Britain's biggest insurer today warned there was a high risk that nine in 10 of its mortgage endowment policies would not pay off customers' home loans, despite last year's strong stockmarket performance

• Competition fuels mortgage cuts
  

  Published 13th Jan 2010

  Santander and Yorkshire become the latest lenders to reduce rates as RBS reveals that it is approving 90 per cent of applications

• British ex-pats take to the streets in Spain to protest against plans to bulldoze their illegally built homes
  

  Published 12th Jan 2010

  Hundreds of expats stopped traffic in Spain yesterday as they protested against plans to bulldoze illegally built homes

• Shelter says Homeowners paying mortgage with plastic
  

  Published 12th Jan 2010

  About 1 million families have resorted to using credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent during the past year, the housing charity Shelter claimed today

• Figures show blots on the landscape for house prices
  

  Published 12th Jan 2010

  House prices fell in the North and the West Midlands in December as market activity dampened, exposing those regions where the recovery has been weakest