Latest Property News

• Marks & Spencer expands into energy market
  

  Published 15th Oct 2008

  Marks & Spencer is to start selling heat and light alongside slippers and underwear as part of a new deal with Scottish and Southern Energy

• Blow for buy-to-let borrowers
  

  Published 15th Oct 2008

  Bank of Ireland has withdrawn its buy-to-let mortgage deals for landlords with less than a 25 per cent deposit in the latest sign that the mortgage market has failed to improve despite the Government's attempts to unfreeze the market

• Nationwide pulls deals for first-time buyers
  

  Published 14th Oct 2008

  Nationwide has scrapped its mortgages for first-time buyers and hiked rates on its tracker deals following the Bank of England's base rate cut last week

• House sales hit new 30-year low
  

  Published 14th Oct 2008

  The slump in the property market is becoming even worse, according to a survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics)

• Investors 'urged to buy property'
  

  Published 03rd Oct 2008

  Cash-rich investors are in the best position to buy new property that they have seen for nearly 30 years

• Lenders hike rates to stem surge in buy-to-let applications
  

  Published 02nd Oct 2008

  Lenders raised rates yesterday on buy-to-let deals to stem a rapid surge in demand for competitive rates following the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley

• Lenders cut 10% of mortgage deals in one day
  

  Published 01st Oct 2008

  Hundreds of mortgage deals vanished from the market yesterday, as lenders responded to the ongoing inter-bank lending freeze