Latest Property News

• UK interest rates held
  

  Published 07th Jan 2010

  The Bank of England held interest rates at a record low today as policymakers treated recent signs of a tentative recovery with caution..

• City rents set to soar as banks drop threats to quit UK
  

  Published 06th Jan 2010

  City of London office rents will rise sharply this year thanks to improving confidence among financial institutions and supply shortages, according to a report that plays down fears that banks are fleeing the UK

• British Gas fails to pass on £400 boiler grants to customers
  

  Published 06th Jan 2010

  British Gas is profiting from the Government’s boiler scrappage scheme by failing to pass on the full value of the grants

• Money held in building society accounts fell by £800m
  

  Published 05th Jan 2010

  Building societies have complained that they had lost £800m in deposits from investors because of unfair competition from taxpayer-backed institutions as speculation swirled about the possible sale of the cleaned-up nationalised Northern Rock

• Cambridge University follows Ivy League trend with £400m bond issue
  

  Published 05th Jan 2010

  For 800 years the University of Cambridge has stood solid as a rock, independent and, as universities go, strikingly rich

• Outdone by Dubai, Taiwan tower seeks green award
  

  Published 04th Jan 2010

  Outdone by an tower extending over 800 meters in Dubai, the world's former tallest building, Taipei 101, wants to become the highest green structure by completing a checklist of clean energy standards, a spokesman said on Monday

• Dubai's "superscraper" makes history in hard times
  

  Published 04th Jan 2010

  Started at the height of the economic boom and built by some 12,000 laborers, the world's tallest building will open today in Dubai as the glitzy emirate seeks to rekindle optimism after its financial crisis