Latest Property Advice

• Borrowers have just months to escape Sam trap
  

  Published 08th Oct 2009

  Homeowners planning to join a class action against lenders who sold them hideously expensive "shared appreciation mortgages" (Sams) have just months to act to avoid their claim being time-barred

• Prime EU property yields stabilising
  

  Published 07th Oct 2009

  Prime commercial property yields across Europe are showing signs of stabilising in the third quarter and are even dropping on average in London and Paris, global property broker CB Richard Ellis said on Tuesday

• Northern Rock turns its back on equity release
  

  Published 07th Oct 2009

  Northern Rock, the Government owned mortgage lender, is to stop offering equity release mortgages, claiming low customer demand

• Homeowner group granted right to sue over shared-appreciation mortgages
  

  Published 07th Oct 2009

  A group of 300 homeowners has been given permission to sue Barclays and Bank of Scotland over a mortgage product that they claim is unfair

• British Gas's insurance quote is plumbing new heights
  

  Published 03rd Oct 2009

  Millions of households that have British Gas HomeCare policies face price rises of up to 50%, taking the annual cost of insuring against central heating and plumbing disasters for some customers to £450

• Consumers let down badly by energy regulator
  

  Published 03rd Oct 2009

  Millions of people are paying too much for their electricity and gas because Ofgem, the energy regulator, has failed to enforce a fair deal for the consumers it was set up to protect

• Neighbour from hell ordered to clear up 'unbearably smelly' garden that he's transformed into a scrapyard
  

  Published 02nd Oct 2009

  A neighbour from hell who has turned his back garden into an ugly scrapyard is facing prosecution for the third time