Latest Property Advice

• How to get a mortgage that is six times your salary
  

  Published 07th Nov 2009

  Homeowners have seen the mortgage market change seemingly irredeemably in the past two years, as lenders batten down the hatches and restrict the availability of deals

• Councils will lose the right to snoop using terror law
  

  Published 04th Nov 2009

  Town halls will today be banned by law from using anti-terror powers to spy on 'bin criminals' and litter louts

• Angry leaseholders count mounting cost of repairs
  

  Published 03rd Nov 2009

  Hundreds of thousands of private homeowners living in blocks of flats or houses owned or managed by local authorities are facing soaring annual charges and hefty bills for improvement works

• Housebuilders face home truths over complaints
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  Increasing complaints about properties under NHBC warranty show that buyers are not prepared to live with shoddy workmanship

• Banks’ tracker profits soaring
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  Lenders stand accused of cashing in on the zeal for tracker mortgages as brokers report ever-increasing interest in variable loans from borrowers

• ‘Act fast on home loans’
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, is urging those who want to benefit from the government’s stamp duty holiday to act “very quickly” to secure a mortgage

• How to beat the banking giants
  

  Published 01st Nov 2009

  Millions of customers are likely to get a raw deal from Britain’s state-backed banks for years to come as the European Commission seeks to limit their competitiveness