Latest Property Advice

• Banks hike mortgage fees for new borrowers
  

  Published 09th Sep 2009

  Banks and building societies are increasingly imposing percentage fees on new mortgages, a report has found, causing a headache for borrowers requiring larger loans

• Let's get positive: The worst of the commercial property price crash may be over
  

  Published 07th Sep 2009

  A consensus is forming among analysts, fund managers and financial advisers - it is time to be positive again about the devastated commercial property sector

• Making the most of mortgage overpayments
  

  Published 07th Sep 2009

  British households are, for the first time, repaying more debt than they're taking out

• CML: UK heading for 'seasonal dip'
  

  Published 03rd Sep 2009

  Mortgage lenders are warning of a challenging autumn despite a 26 per cent rise in lending in July

• £500 fine if you put out wheelie bin on the wrong day
  

  Published 02nd Sep 2009

  Families could face fines of more than £500 for breaking wheelie bin rules

• Prices might be going up, but the new homes aren't
  

  Published 30th Aug 2009

  Estate agents may be feeling more optimistic, but better news from the market conceals the truth of Britain's chronic failure to build new homes and keep the dream of ownership alive

• Holiday homes mortgage trap
  

  Published 29th Aug 2009

  Thousands of UK investors who were tempted into the foreign property markets of Dubai and Bulgaria may never be able to sell out or refinance, following the withdrawal of domestic mortgage products