Latest Property News

• Nationwide: Sluggish 2012 ahead for house prices after December dip rounds off 'mixed' year for UK
  

  Published 30th Dec 2011

  House prices will tread water again in 2012 having dipped slightly this December, Britain's biggest building society says

• London properties defy gloom as wealthy buyers push prices for top homes up 10% last year
  

  Published 29th Dec 2011

  Prices of upmarket homes in London hit record highs in 2011 as the capital left the rest of the country in its wake, a report showed yesterday

• Brussels rules let 11,000 migrants a year slip into the UK by the back door
  

  Published 29th Dec 2011

  Brussels rules are letting thousands of migrants into Britain ‘by the back door’

• First-time home buyers at record low - Halifax
  

  Published 26th Dec 2011

  The number of first-time home buyers in Britain fell to a record low in 2011, despite house prices declining to their most affordable levels in eight years, mortgage lender Halifax said in a survey on Monday

• House prices 'will slump by 3% as they drop in 2012 for the fifth year running'
  

  Published 26th Dec 2011

  House prices will slump by 3 per cent next year, marking the fifth consecutive year when they have fallen rather than risen, a report warns today

• Right to Buy scheme discount set to increase to as much as £50,000 in boost for council tenants
  

  Published 23rd Dec 2011

  Council tenants are to be offered increased discounts of up to £50,000 to buy their homes in a shake-up if the Right to Buy scheme

• Britain's costliest house this year went for £19m... but cheapest was just £16,000
  

  Published 23rd Dec 2011

  The most expensive house sold so far this year has gone for £19.25million