Latest Property News

• Land Securities signals signs of stabilisation led by London
  

  Published 16th Jul 2009

  The property giant Land Securities yesterday signalled signs of stabilisation in the commercial property market after a wretched two years, but warned that vacancies continue to rise and capital values are still declining

• Squatters move into Billionaires’ Row as concern grows over homes left empty
  

  Published 16th Jul 2009

  Squatters have moved into a London super-mansion in a road dubbed “Billionaires’ Row”, a few doors from a house owned by the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal

• House prices will stay in the doldrums for years, report predicts
  

  Published 15th Jul 2009

  Britain's housing market will stay in the doldrums until the middle of the next decade, and there is a 30% chance that prices will take until 2020 to return to their peak before the crash, a consultancy firm predicts

• Housing market is far stronger than a year ago according to estate agent president
  

  Published 13th Jul 2009

  The difference between the asking and selling prices for homes shrank to just 1.9 per cent last month, a report shows

• Mortgage lenders report fraud on the rise
  

  Published 13th Jul 2009

  A rush for cut-price property by bargain-hunting buyers has led to an increase in fraudulent mortgage applications, with the number of inflated salary claims soaring

• US prices see first gain
  

  Published 10th Jul 2009

  Finally there is some good news for the US market - residential property prices posted their first quarterly gain since 2006 - a sign that things are starting to look up in one of the countries hardest hit by the credit crisis..

• Landmark ruling on sale-and-rent-back schemes
  

  Published 10th Jul 2009

  A family who were about to lose their home to a sale-and-rent-back scheme have won a landmark ruling that will allow them to stay in the property for life