Latest Property News

• Central London office rents are set to rise
  

  Published 01st Jan 2010

  The cost of renting an office in Central London is set to rise this year as the effect of a two-year development drought finally bites

• Artist buys £3,000 home slipping into the sea ... to paint it being washed away
  

  Published 31st Dec 2009

  An artist has bought a property that is slipping into the sea so he can paint it being washed away

• Homebuyers rush to beat increase in stamp duty
  

  Published 31st Dec 2009

  Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January

• Nationwide says house prices rose 5.9% in 2009
  

  Published 31st Dec 2009

  House prices rose for the eighth consecutive month in December and are now almost 6 per cent higher than a year ago, according to Nationwide, the building society, which warned that the market remains uncertain

• 'Happy New Year... we're going to bulldoze your homes': British ex-pats in Spain face having their houses torn down
  

  Published 30th Dec 2009

  Britons who sold up to move to Spain are facing homelessness in the New Year after being told their dream homes will be bulldozed

• British homeowners continue to trim mortgage debt
  

  Published 30th Dec 2009

  Britons reduced their outstanding mortgage debt by £4.9bn during the third quarter of the year, figures from the Bank of England showed today

• House prices predicted to fall in 2010
  

  Published 28th Dec 2009

  Rising unemployment, strained household incomes and a fragile economic backdrop are likely to push house prices lower in the coming year, according to the property research group Hometrack's latest housing market outlook