Latest Property News

• Cambridge: Britain's blandest shopping town
  

  Published 15th Sep 2010

  Cambridge, famous for its brilliant students, college towers and grassy meadows, is bottom of the class in Britain when it comes to the diversity of its high street stores, a think tank said on Wednesday

• Mortgage squeeze looms as banks insist lending will be affected by new deposit rules
  

  Published 14th Sep 2010

  Bank chiefs came under fire today after claiming that new rules will force them to lend less and offer worse rates to borrowers

• First-time buyers squeezed out the market as banks tighten their belts - again
  

  Published 14th Sep 2010

  The number of mortgages taken out by first-time buyers fell slightly in July, indicating that the market is still jittery as banks and building societites tighten their lending criteria again

• Coalition targets a £25billion sale of Government owned property
  

  Published 13th Sep 2010

  Plans to sell Government property worth £25 billion – nearly seven per cent of all Stateowned buildings and land – over the next three years will be unveiled next month by Chancellor George Osborne

• House prices rise in August - Halifax
  

  Published 08th Sep 2010

  British house prices rose for the second month running in August, mortgage lender Halifax said on Wednesday, confounding expectations for a fall though it still expected house prices to stagnate overall this year

• Commercial property price growth falls in August - CBRE
  

  Published 08th Sep 2010

  British commercial property price growth fell for the fifth consecutive month in August as worries over tenant strength curbed investor enthusiasm for buying discounted assets, data showed on Wednesday

• House prices fall for second consecutive month, says Nationwide
  

  Published 02nd Sep 2010

  House prices fell by 0.9% in August, the second consecutive monthly fall following July's 0.5% decline, taking the average price of a home in the UK to £166,507, according to the Nationwide building society