Latest Property News

• House prices up 1.5 percent in December - Land Registry
  

  Published 31st Jan 2011

  House prices in England and Wales fell 0.2 percent in December, leaving them 1.5 percent higher than the same month a year ago, figures from the Land Registry showed on Monday

• House prices rising faster in the North for first time on record
  

  Published 31st Jan 2011

  House prices have risen faster in the North than the South over the past decade for the first time on record, research reveals today

• Negative equity mortgage deal unveiled by Lloyds
  

  Published 28th Jan 2011

  A mortgage deal aimed at homeowners who are trapped in negative equity but keen to move was launched today by the Lloyds banking group

• House prices fall 2.2 percent in January - Hometrack
  

  Published 27th Jan 2011

  House prices in England and Wales fell for a seventh month in a row in January, dropping 2.2 percent from a year earlier, property data firm Hometrack said on Thursday

• Fewer first home buyers in UK market than ever
  

  Published 25th Jan 2011

  The number of financially independent first home buyers in the UK has fallen by 100,000 per year since 2006, the latest figures have shown

• Barclay brothers to expand hotels portfolio - report
  

  Published 25th Jan 2011

  Private investors David and Frederick Barclay are set to take a controlling stake in three of London's most prestigious hotels, the Financial Times said on Tuesday

• Gross mortgage lending down 18 percent in December - CML
  

  Published 21st Jan 2011

  Gross mortgage lending fell by 18 percent on the year to 11 billion pounds in December, the lowest figure for a month of December since 2000, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said on Friday