Latest Property News

• NM Rothschild pitches motorway privatisation plan
  

  Published 31st Aug 2009

  A radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network has been presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank

• Construction giants could be fined millions for rigging contract bids
  

  Published 31st Aug 2009

  The Office of Fair Trading is expected to hit some of the biggest names in the construction industry with multimillion-pound fines next month, at the end of a four-year cartel inquiry

• Leaked letter warns Tories to delay property developments
  

  Published 30th Aug 2009

  Caroline Spelman wrote to Conservative MPs and councils advising them to delay housing developments

• London sales of £1m-plus homes leap
  

  Published 29th Aug 2009

  The number of homes sold for more than £1m in London soared in August as buyer confidence returned on the back of a fifth successive month of rising prices

• China Investment Corp bails out Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates
  

  Published 29th Aug 2009

  China’s state sovereign wealth fund has bailed out the heavily indebted majority owner of Canary Wharf in its first big investment in Britain

• Builders benefit as retired couples decide to go back to town
  

  Published 29th Aug 2009

  Empty-nesters and retiring couples are riding to the rescue of developers trying to sell apartments in city blocks

• Housing revival puts pressure on lenders for easier mortgages
  

  Published 28th Aug 2009

  The unexpected revival in the housing market continued in August with prices rising by an average 1.6 per cent over the month and housebuilders returning to sites in some of the country’s worst-hit regions