Latest Property News

• House prices rise 0.4% to end year where they began
  

  Published 03rd Jan 2011

  The UK housing market has ended a volatile 2010 roughly where it began, after Nationwide reported a surprise 0.4% rise in house prices in December

• I'll stop housing boom for good, promises minister as experts warn of 6% house price falls
  

  Published 03rd Jan 2011

  Britain's property boom could be over for good, the housing ­minister said last night – as experts warned prices could fall by 6 per cent this year

• Minister pledges an end to the housing price rollercoaster
  

  Published 02nd Jan 2011

  The era of booming house prices, in which people saw property as an investment for retirement, is over, the housing minister declares today

• Gas rises on storage supply cut, high exports
  

  Published 30th Dec 2010

  Prompt gas prices rose on Thursday as exports to Belgium and a reduction in storage withdrawals tightened supply, market participants said

• India's Sahara buys Grosvenor House hotel for £470 million
  

  Published 30th Dec 2010

  Indian diversified group Sahara India said on Thursday its unit Aamby Valley has purchased London's Grosvenor House hotel from the Royal Bank of Scotland for 470 million pounds

• Homeowners paying back mortgages at rapid rate
  

  Published 29th Dec 2010

  Homeowners are paying off mortgages more rapidly, reducing their outstanding debt by £6.1bn during the three months to the end of September, according to the Bank of England

• Pain in Spain's housing market goes on
  

  Published 28th Dec 2010

  Reports on Spain's ailing housing market show sales volumes are down almost 50% since the summer and prices may suffer further falls of up to 30% — with holiday homes in tourist areas likely to fare worst of all