Latest Property News

• Neill drops £400m empty rates bombshell on small businesses
  

  Published 14th Dec 2010

  Empty rates relief for small properties has been scrapped in a move likely to cost businesses £400m a year

• House price index unexpectedly improves
  

  Published 14th Dec 2010

  House prices in England and Wales fell for a fifth consecutive month in November, albeit at a slower pace than analysts had expected, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Tuesday

• Skanska announces move into UK housebuilding
  

  Published 10th Dec 2010

  The builder of London's Gherkin and Heron Tower skyscrapers became the newest name in UK housebuilding today as it sought to take advantage of opportunities thrown up by the credit crunch

• Bank of England maintains interest rates at historic low of 0.5pc
  

  Published 09th Dec 2010

  The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold at 0.5 per cent for the 20th month consecutive month

• Signs of property market bottoming out
  

  Published 09th Dec 2010

  House prices fell 0.7% in the three months to November compared to the same period last year, figures revealed today - the first fall on that measure since November last year

• DG HYP to pull out of UK property lending
  

  Published 09th Dec 2010

  German property lender DG HYP is to shut its international lending business, removing one of the more active banks from an already debt-starved UK property market

• A year in Provence? We prefer America... where you can get a holiday apartment for £15,000
  

  Published 07th Dec 2010

  Living in France is losing its appeal among Britons, with a large drop in the number of people looking to buy a second home there