Latest Property News

• Parent loan for new Barratt home available for first-timers
  

  Published 19th Jan 2011

  Parents wanting to help their children buy a new Barratt home can apply for a loan worth up to £50,000

• Early housing boom greets the new year
  

  Published 19th Jan 2011

  The UK housing market saw a surge in the level of enquires, both for buyers and sellers in the first two weeks of January, according to estate agents

• Land Securities plans focus on UK developments
  

  Published 19th Jan 2011

  Land Securities, UK's largest listed landlord, will focus its efforts on developing new projects, which it expects to produce better returns than acquisitions as the commercial property market recovers

• PRUPIM fund buys Sainsbury supermarkets for £125 million
  

  Published 19th Jan 2011

  PRUPIM, the property investment arm of insurer Prudential, has bought three supermarkets occupied by Sainsbury for 125 million pounds for a fund that hedges inflation risk

• Rate rise fears spark rush to fix mortgages: Biggest jump in cost of living since records began
  

  Published 19th Jan 2011

  Homeowners were rushing to ‘fix’ their mortgages yesterday amid fears that soaring inflation will trigger a rate rise within months

• British couple sentenced to eight months in Spanish prison for building retirement villa on protected land
  

  Published 18th Jan 2011

  A British couple have been sentenced to eight months in prison and ordered to demolish their Spanish villa for breaching planning regulations

• Savills downgrades extent of Prime London bonus boom
  

  Published 18th Jan 2011

  The UK's residential property market is set to benefit from a £1 billion injection of bonus cash over the next few months, the majority of which will be invested in prime central London, analysis from Savills suggests