Latest Property News

• Tenants 'expecting further rent increases'
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2010

  Four out of 10 tenants expect the cost of renting a home to keep rising in the coming year as property supply fails to keep up with demand, a survey showed

• Frozen property market to continue 'well into 2012' as banks keep tight grip on lending
  

  Published 23rd Nov 2010

  Homeowners desperate to sell were warned today that Britain's property market will remain frozen until 2012 at the earliest

• Westfield sells £871.5 Million stake in London complex
  

  Published 22nd Nov 2010

  Australian shopping-mall owner Westfield Group (WDC.AX) is selling a stake in its Stratford City development in London to Dutch and Canadian pension funds for 871.5 million pounds, Westfield said on Monday

• British Land and USS poised to buy Drake Circus for £230m
  

  Published 19th Nov 2010

  British Land and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) are poised to buy the Drake Circus Shopping Centre in Plymouth for more than £230m

• UK rolls out new Estate Agents Licence
  

  Published 19th Nov 2010

  Alongside traffic wardens and tax collectors, estate agents are high on the list of those some of us love to hate - so a new licence being introduced by the The National Association of Estate Agents, which aims to improve standards in the industry, will be welcomed by many..

• Housebuilder Gleeson attacks government policy vacuum
  

  Published 19th Nov 2010

  Housebuilder M J Gleeson (GLEG.L) said on Friday that market conditions remained difficult and that a "policy vacuum" created by Britain's new coalition government in relation to planning law was adding to its woes

• Gross mortgage lending falls 9 percent y/y in October
  

  Published 18th Nov 2010

  Gross mortgage lending in Britain fell nine percent year-on-year in October to 12.4 billion pounds, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said on Thursday