Latest Property News

• Istithmar sells £173m West End asset
  

  Published 12th Aug 2010

  One of the largest office investment deals in London’s West End has been carried out

• Admiral takes Cardiff’s biggest ever pre-let
  

  Published 12th Aug 2010

  Stoford is to develop a 220,000 sq ft headquarters for Admiral Group in Cardiff - the biggest ever pre-let deal in Cardiff’s history

• First Direct swamped by lifetime tracker mortgage applications
  

  Published 12th Aug 2010

  First Direct mortgage customers are having to wait four weeks for interviews to apply for the bank's lifetime tracker mortgage following a deluge of applications

• Balfour Beaty reveal healthy profits in half year results
  

  Published 12th Aug 2010

  Balfour Beatty has shrugged off the threat of government spending cuts to post a 25 per cent rise in half year profits

• State banks clobber first time buyers with high mortgage rates
  

  Published 11th Aug 2010

  First-time buyers are being hit with high mortgage rates by State-backed banks Lloyds and RBS

• House price fall fuels fears of double-dip recession
  

  Published 10th Aug 2010

  Fears of a double dip recession rose yesterday after the majority of estate agents reported price falls for the first time in a year

• Lenders slash fixed rates
  

  Published 09th Aug 2010

  A handful of lenders has taken a knife to the cost of fixed-rate mortgages, despite the Bank of England keeping base rate at 0.5 per cent