Latest Property News

• Mortgage repayments halved for first-time buyers, but many still can't get on the housing ladder
  

  Published 20th Aug 2010

  Mortgage repayments for first-time buyers have nearly halved during the past three years due to record low interest rates and house price falls

• No end in sight for mortgage drought
  

  Published 19th Aug 2010

  Home owners are seeing no end in sight to the mortgage drought despite banks profit margins reaching a record high

• House price indexes come under the spotlight
  

  Published 18th Aug 2010

  The Government has launched a review of housing market statistics following concerns that the different methods used for calculating house prices may be causing confusion

• Property crash? Not if you live in the right place
  

  Published 17th Aug 2010

  Prices are falling almost everywhere, but there are still hot spots bucking the trend

• End of the road for clampers: Cowboys who prey on millions parking on private land to be outlawed in victory for the Mail
  

  Published 17th Aug 2010

  In a sensational victory for the Daily Mail, wheel clamping is to be banned on all private land

• Quarter of a million Britons now have second homes as they cash in on staycation boom
  

  Published 17th Aug 2010

  The number of second home owners in England has soared to record levels, research revealed yesterday

• House asking prices fall in August
  

  Published 16th Aug 2010

  Asking prices for homes in England and Wales fell by 1.7 percent in August after an oversupply of property coincided with a seasonal dip in demand, property website Rightmove said on Monday