Latest Property News

• Lenders raise fixes for the second time in a fortnight
  

  Published 23rd Jun 2009

  Nationwide Building Society, the UK's third biggest mortgage lender, is raising the cost fixed-rate mortgages for the second time in two weeks

• Buy house, get free wife
  

  Published 22nd Jun 2009

  Just when we thought we'd heard every creative way of flogging off property when the chips are down - along comes a new one to prove me wrong - an entrepreneurial developer in Beijing, China, has decided to lure buyers to his luxury Ecological Bay project with the offer of a wedding to one of their sales ladies - and he's even throwing in a dowry to seal the deal..

• Lenders’ hidden mortgage deals New customers paying for borrowers in trouble.
  

  Published 21st Jun 2009

  Government banks are quietly offering much better deals to homeowners in negative equity than to new borrowers with larger deposits

• Taylor Wimpey sees 'stability' in UK housing market Housebuilder's order book swells by almost 75%
  

  Published 19th Jun 2009

  Taylor Wimpey has reported seeing "stability" in the UK's housing market and said its order book has grown by almost 75% since the start of this year

• Developers ‘run plans past Prince Charles’ to avoid rows later
  

  Published 19th Jun 2009

  The Prince of Wales is routinely shown plans for major building projects in London to avoid him raising damaging objections later on, developers have admitted

• Canada market on the up
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  The residential real estate market in Canada is improving with estate agents reporting improved sales and economists claiming that the worst of the slump is over..

• Dubai prices polled
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  Residential property prices in Dubai could fall at least another 20 per cent this year and there is little chance of an improvement before 2011, according to a new poll..