Latest Property Advice

• House price 'spring bounce' as average asking price hits £236,939 - or £455,159 in London
  

  Published 19th Mar 2012

  The biggest 'spring bounce' in house prices for six years has sparked hopes the property market will strengthen in 2012

• Buy-to-let landlords warned about new rules on Energy Performance Certificates
  

  Published 16th Mar 2012

  Buy-to-let landlords are being warned that eco-laws on property rental will be tightened up next month

• Accidental landlords are caught in high-rate trap as they fail to tell bank about tenants
  

  Published 07th Mar 2012

  Accidental landlords are being stung with more expensive ‘let-to-buy’ mortgages as lenders take advantage of desperate sellers unable to move

• Halifax could deliver shock mortgage rate hike soon for 1m SVR borrowers
  

  Published 29th Feb 2012

  Homeowners sat on Halifax standard variable rate mortgages at 3.5 per cent could be in for a rude shock, as the lender has paved the way to hike their monthly payments, an expert has warned

• Innocent man who rang 999 from back of police van while being 'roughed up' by officers gets five-figure pay out
  

  Published 01st Feb 2012

  An insurance worker who rang 999 from the back of a police van after officers 'roughed him up' has won £10,000 in damages

• Why cheap loans aren't helping first-time buyers to get onto the property ladder
  

  Published 26th Jan 2012

  First-time buyers will struggle to get a mortgage in 2012, despite banks promising to increase the number of cheap deals available to them, experts have warned

• Frozen out of the mortgage market and forced to pay a punishing rent
  

  Published 10th Jan 2012

  The growing number of those who cannot raise enough of a deposit to get a mortgage are in a worse position than ever