Latest Property News

• Gatwick sale ready for take-off
  

  Published 11th Oct 2009

  Gatwick Airport could change hands within the next few days as BAA edges closer to a deal to sell it to an investment fund

• They built up a £180m property empire in buy-to-let boom but now the suburban tycoons are selling up ... do they know something we don't?
  

  Published 11th Oct 2009

  This certainly doesn’t look like the stately pile of a billionaire

• Trinity College Cambridge buys lease of O2 complex at Millennium Dome
  

  Published 10th Oct 2009

  Cambridge University's Trinity College has bought the lease to the O2 entertainment complex at the Millennium Dome for £24m

• Mortgage rates fall as interest kept at 0.5% for eighth month
  

  Published 09th Oct 2009

  Competition is starting to push down interest rates on mortgages, brokers said , as the Bank of England left the bank rate at a record 0.5% low for the eighth month running

• Property investor prepares AIM float
  

  Published 09th Oct 2009

  A property company backed by the chairman of New Look and the founder of the Seriously Strong Cheddar brand plans to list on the London Stock Exchange's junior market and raise £100 million from institutional investors

• Homeowners to receive £60m PPI mortgage insurance refund
  

  Published 08th Oct 2009

  Mortgage payment protection insurance providers that have raised borrowers' premiums or reduced the level of cover will have to pay back around £60m to consumers, the City watchdog announced today

• Building contractors face tax crackdown
  

  Published 08th Oct 2009

  A Government proposal to reclassify the income of self-employed construction workers so they pay income tax on a pay-as-you-earn basis will result in extra tax payments worth hundreds of pounds and a “huge administrative burden” for the companies that employ them