Latest Property Advice

• Homeowner fury over Pru's late-notice mortgage shortfall
  

  Published 24th Jun 2009

  Homeowners depending on Britain's largest endowment provider, Prudential, to pay off their mortgages have been warned they face shortfalls, even though they have been on target for almost 24 years

• As energy firms sit on £226m of customers' cash, we demand... GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK NOW!
  

  Published 24th Jun 2009

  Energy companies could be sitting on more than a quarter of a billion pounds of their customers' money because they charge too much on direct debits

• Retail rents to drop by a fifth
  

  Published 21st Jun 2009

  Rents across the UK’s high streets and shopping centres are set to drop by almost a fifth between now and the end of next year, quashing hopes of a revival of the troubled retail property sector, an influential property report has forecast

• Weeding them out
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is cracking down on estate agencies and individual agents who have broken the rules - naming and shaming them in an online public register for the first time - allowing consumers to see first hand which ones to steer clear of..

• Now tenants are losing homes in buy-to-let crisis
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  A growing number of tenants face losing their homes, as landlords find it increasingly difficult to meet mortgage payments

• Army of unqualified tradesmen botch home repairs
  

  Published 18th Jun 2009

  Insurers have warned homeowners of a surge in unqualified traders carrying out “dodgy” repairs to property

• Hot property? No, but ‘siege mentality’ has lifted
  

  Published 12th Jun 2009

  No one is calling the bottom just yet but there were some encouraging signs yesterday that the housing market may be heading for a softer landing than previously thought