Latest Property News

• Home builders to the stars in a £1.3m hole
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  A couple who built up a £15million business designing luxury homes for celebrities and footballers including glamour model Katie Price and England star Wayne Rooney have become the latest victims of the credit crunch

• More trouble ahead for mortgage market
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  The mortgage market is rebounding as lenders boost the number of deals approved for homebuyers, according to new figures

• Threshers owner falls into administration
  

  Published 30th Oct 2009

  The company that owns Threshers, the 112-year-old off-licence chain, collapsed into administration last night, putting 6,500 jobs at risk

• Tesco rules out Northern Rock takeover
  

  Published 29th Oct 2009

  Tesco ruled itself out of the bidding to take control of the Northern Rock "good bank" today as it outlined its plans to build a new full-service bank offering current accounts, mortgages and, in time, small business banking facilities

• Norway becomes first European country to raise interest rates since financial crisis
  

  Published 28th Oct 2009

  Norway's central bank raised its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 1.5 per cent today, making the oil-rich country the first European economy to boost rates since the height of the global financial crisis

• High street insurer Swinton ordered to give refunds to 350,000 customers over PPI 'failings'
  

  Published 28th Oct 2009

  High street insurance broker Swinton was fined £770,000 today and ordered to offer refunds to 350,000 customers after the City watchdog found 'serious failings' in its sales of payment protection insurance (PPI)

• Long term landlords rewarded
  

  Published 28th Oct 2009

  The UK rental market looks to be strengthening as rents continue to rise and stock levels continue to fall, bringing supply back to the level seen almost a year ago - the FindaProperty.com October Rental Index found that buy to let landlords who have stayed the course over the last eighteen months are now being rewarded with a rapidly normalising market..