Latest Property Advice

• Letting agents warned to check their small print
  

  Published 26th Jul 2011

  The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is warning the letting agents sector to check that their terms and conditions are fair and transparent as it publishes an evaluation of its consumer enforcement case against Foxtons for breaching the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999

• Landlords urged to protect against 'property thieves' after mortgage adviser is convicted of £500k scam
  

  Published 19th Jul 2011

  Fraudster Feruza Mettrick was jailed for five years last week, after attempting to scam lenders out of millions by stealing landlords’ identities, in a case heard at Leeds Crown Court

• A new nation of renters? Homeowners decline while private renting sees a sharp increase
  

  Published 06th Jul 2011

  The property slump and recession has taken its toll on our love affair with home ownership, with the number of owner-occupied homes falling four per cent in five years

• Warning to half a million families as deadly fridge freezer causes tower block inferno
  

  Published 05th Jul 2011

  Fire chiefs warned today that lives are at risk after a model of fridge freezer, owned by thousands of homes and businesses, was pinpointed as a serious danger

• British Gas hints again at energy price rises on the way
  

  Published 05th Jul 2011

  British Gas, one of the big six energy companies, has hinted that it will announce a price hike within weeks

• HMRC targets property valuations in inheritance tax inquiry
  

  Published 06th Jun 2011

  HM Revenue & Customs has targeted increasing numbers of bereaved middle England families by carrying out almost 9,500 investigations into inheritance tax valuations last year, according to a leading accountancy firm

• Rent generation fuels a buy-to-let bonanza
  

  Published 06th Jun 2011

  Rising rents, cheaper mortgage deals and positive house price forecasts are behind a huge resurgence of interest in buying property to let