Latest Property News

• Consumer spending and house prices pick up
  

  Published 11th Aug 2009

  Stronger spending on the high street and a pick up in activity in the housing market provided fresh evidence today that the British economy is emerging slowly from its steepest postwar decline

• Surveyors predict house prices this year will end higher than in 2008
  

  Published 06th Aug 2009

  Britain's housing market is emerging from the doldrums, and prices could end 2009 "slightly higher" than last year, according to a report from surveyors which points to growing evidence of a bounce, but warns that, "caution is still the watchword"

• Shortage of homes for sale expected to push up prices by end of the year
  

  Published 06th Aug 2009

  An acute shortage of homes being brought to the market will push property prices up this year as bargain-hunters vie for the best deals, a leading estate agency body forecast yesterday

• Nationalised Northern Rock is STILL borrowing £11million a day
  

  Published 05th Aug 2009

  Northern Rock is borrowing an extra £11million a day from taxpayers while stinging its customers with punitive interest rates

• Off-plan buyers return as London property market perks up
  

  Published 05th Aug 2009

  Off-plan buyers have returned to the London housing market and are putting down deposits of thousands of pounds for homes that will not be completed for at least a year, amid a shortage of property for sale in the capital

• London's burning
  

  Published 28th Jul 2009

  In a real departure from a few months ago, the London property market is swarming with buyers who are convinced they have missed the prime buying opportunities and are keen to get in now, before prices start to rise again in the face of renewed confidence in the market..

• The great home lending rip-off: Families pay £1,800 a year too much on mortgage
  

  Published 28th Jul 2009

  Homeowners are paying an average £1,800 a year extra for their mortgages as banks fail to pass on cuts in borrowing rates