Latest Property News

• Lenders remain tough on loan to value deals
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2009

  First-time buyers and homeowners with only a small amount of equity in their property who want to move or remortgage should have greater choice after the launch of new loan deals

• 'We're falling apart' - A couple's Spanish dream in ruins as home cracks up
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2009

  Barrie and Janet Waterfall were full of hope when they moved to Spain nine years ago

• Average cost of fixed rate mortgage falls below 5% for first time in five months
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2009

  The average cost of a two-year fixed-rate mortgage has fallen below 5 per cent for the first time in five months, research showed today

• Mortgage rates up ahead of ‘double dip’ Lenders raise mortgage costs amid property fears
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2009

  Government-backed banks raised mortgage rates and introduced stricter lending criteria last week amid concerns that this year’s house-price recovery is not sustainable

• Mortgage and housebuilding figures offer hope
  

  Published 20th Nov 2009

  Healthier mortgage lending and housebuilding figures published gave hope of a return to better housing market conditions, but remained far below normal levels

• 125 per cent loans to homemovers
  

  Published 20th Nov 2009

  Mortgage brokers have welcomed moves by Coventry Building Society to offer 125 per cent loan-to-value mortgages to existing customers who need to move house

• Bovis forecasts improving housing market as sales rise
  

  Published 18th Nov 2009

  Housebuilder Bovis Homes today said it had seen further signs of an improving market and expects more price stability in 2010