Latest Property News

• House prices rise despite more stock on market
  

  Published 10th Nov 2009

  More properties coming on to the market did not stop house prices rising in October, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

• Government impose ‘carbon capture levy’ to fund coal-fired power plants
  

  Published 10th Nov 2009

  Families will pay a new levy on electricity bills for at least the next 20 years to fund technology designed to capture the carbon from coal-fired power stations

• House price 'bubble' as buyers outnumber sellers five to one
  

  Published 06th Nov 2009

  Homebuyers are outnumbering sellers by a ratio of five to one, creating a price bubble, it is claimed today

• Sir John Ritblat tipped to buy back Merchant Inns
  

  Published 06th Nov 2009

  Sir John Ritblat, the former chairman of British Land, is tipped to regain control of Merchant Inns, his fledgling pub chain, less than a month after its collapse into administration

• The number of homes worth more than £1million has fallen by a third during the past two years
  

  Published 05th Nov 2009

  Millionaires rows have been hit hard by the effects of the credit crunch, with buyers unwilling to pay huge sums for the country's most exclusive properties, according to new figures

• Police remove street signs bearing family's name as they are reminder of 'fear, intimidation and criminal activity'
  

  Published 04th Nov 2009

  For years the street names were a constant reminder to villagers of a family accused of a string of crimes

• Commercial sites gloom 'hit valuation accuracy'
  

  Published 03rd Nov 2009

  The slide in commercial property prices was responsible for a decline in the accuracy of surveyors’ valuations last year, according to a report published today