Latest Property News

• House prices edge ahead
  

  Published 28th Sep 2010

  House prices in England and Wales edged ahead by 0.3% in August to stand at their highest level for two years, figures showed today

• Wolseley moves to Switzerland because of UK tax
  

  Published 28th Sep 2010

  Wolseley, the FTSE 100 plumbing and heating group, is relocating to Switzerland after failing to obtain a "clear enough view" from the Coalition government about their plans to overhaul the UK's corporation tax regime

• Paragon starts buy-to-let lending after two-year break
  

  Published 28th Sep 2010

  Paragon will begin lending to buy-to-let property investors again for the first time since early 2008, taking advantage of booming rents as would-be buyers fail to get on to the housing ladder

• Estate agent Knight Frank bonuses soar
  

  Published 27th Sep 2010

  Partners at Knight Frank have trousered bonuses worth an average of £600,000 after a rebound in the housing market bolstered profits

• House prices fall in every region of UK...Even London succumbs to mortgage drought
  

  Published 27th Sep 2010

  House prices are falling in every region of the UK for the first time since April last year, figures reveal today

• JC Flowers considers making a move for Skipton Building Society
  

  Published 26th Sep 2010

  J C Flowers, the US private equity investor, has recruited the former head of Skipton Building Society as it considers an assault on the leading mutual

• Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross set to break-up retail property empire
  

  Published 26th Sep 2010

  David Ross, the Conservative party donor and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, is on the brink of breaking-up his retail property empire