Latest Property News

• Digital Britain: new landline tax to pay for broadband roll-out
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  A new 50p per month broadband tax is to be levied on every home and business with a phone line under government plans to raise up to £1.5bn to pay for the next generation of internet connections

• Young people 'giving up on the property dream'
  

  Published 15th Jun 2009

  Young people are increasingly falling out of love with the idea of owning their own home, new research shows, as prices remain too high for most to afford

• Buyers face hike in mortgage rates as inflation fears mount
  

  Published 12th Jun 2009

  Homebuyers are facing their first rise in mortgage rates for a year in a move by banks and building societies that could extinguish the nascent recovery in the housing market

• New mortgage approvals rise 16% in April
  

  Published 12th Jun 2009

  Further evidence of a revival in the housing market was provided this morning when the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reported that its members granted 16 per cent more home loans in April than in March

• Nationwide hits buyers with mortgage rate rise
  

  Published 11th Jun 2009

  Nationwide Building Society, Britain's third biggest lender, is planning to raise interest rates on its most popular mortgage deals, in a move expected to force rivals to follow suit

• Surveyors are stifling property market recovery
  

  Published 10th Jun 2009

  Surveyors have been accused of undervaluing properties and stifling the property market recovery, according to a new analysis

• Greene King in £30m raid on rival Punch Pubs
  

  Published 09th Jun 2009

  Greene King bolstered its estate today with the acquisition of 11 'high quality' pubs from debt-laden rival Punch Taverns