Latest Property News

• Help for the middle class 'mortgage prisoners': Banks to be told to ease restrictions on the thousands caught in negative equity
  

  Published 15th Dec 2011

  Banks are to be told to rescue middle-class ‘mortgage prisoners’ by loosening lending restrictions

• House price fall slows in Nov as demand rises - RICS
  

  Published 14th Dec 2011

  House prices fell at a slower pace in November as buyer interest picked up modestly, a survey showed on Tuesday

• Halifax: House prices to remain stuck in the doldrums in 2012
  

  Published 12th Dec 2011

  House prices will remain stuck in the doldrums but avoid a dramatic fall next year, according to the Halifax’s 2012 property prediction

• FSA looking at understated property risks - FT
  

  Published 12th Dec 2011

  Britain's financial regulator is tightening its oversight of commercial property lending and has ordered banks to improve the way their internal models measure risk, the Financial Times reported on Monday

• Finance dries up for UK property development - survey
  

  Published 09th Dec 2011

  Development finance available for new UK commercial properties has continued to dry up, with fully pre-let and speculative projects falling out of favour with major lenders who have been spooked by the euro zone debt crisis, a survey showed

• Schroders prepares resi move
  

  Published 07th Dec 2011

  Fund manager Schroders is planning a move into key worker housing

• House prices fall 0.9 percent in November - Halifax
  

  Published 06th Dec 2011

  House prices fell by 0.9 percent in November, mortgage lender Halifax said on Tuesday, though it said it expected the housing market to hold steady in the coming months