Latest Property News

• Lloyds Banking Group to restrict buy-to-let property deals
  

  Published 14th Sep 2009

  Britain's biggest mortgage lender has pulled the rug from under the buy-to-let market by imposing strict new controls on the number of properties it will lend against

• Lenders ignore Bank rate freeze
  

  Published 14th Sep 2009

  Two of Britain’s biggest lenders hiked the cost of new mortgages last week — one day after Bank rate was kept on hold for the sixth consecutive month

• House prices rise 0.8% to fuel rebound hopes
  

  Published 11th Sep 2009

  House prices rose for the second month in a row during August, according to Halifax

• Wetherspoon sales stabilise amid profit fall
  

  Published 11th Sep 2009

  JD Wetherspoon, the pub owner, reported a 17 per cent fall in full-year profits after the company was forced to writedown the value of pubs that traded badly in the depths of the recession

• Base rates on hold
  

  Published 10th Sep 2009

  Today, the Bank of England once again held base rates at 0.50 per cent, for a sixth consecutive month

• Ending in tiers in Dubai
  

  Published 10th Sep 2009

  In a bid to weed out all unscrupulous estate agents in Dubai, the Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA) has introduced a new tiered classification system that will link agent's licences to specific areas and will reduce the number of those operating..

• Fixed mortgage rates at highest for eleven months
  

  Published 10th Sep 2009

  The cost of fixed-rate mortgages rose to its highest level for 11 months during August despite steep falls in wholesale funding costs, according to figures published today