Latest Property News

• B&B nationalisation is confirmed
  

  Published 29th Sep 2008

  Mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is to be nationalised, the government has confirmed

• Borrowers hit as HSBC and Barclays raise rates
  

  Published 26th Sep 2008

  Two of the UK's biggest banks increased the rates on some mortgage deals by up to 0.35 percentage points yesterday in a further blow to Britain's beleaguered homeowners

• Spanish house sales drop sharply
  

  Published 26th Sep 2008

  Spanish house sales slumped by 26.3% in the year to July, according to official figures

• Lloyds TSB takes over HBOS
  

  Published 18th Sep 2008

  Lloyds TSB confirmed this morning that it is paying £12.2bn to take over HBOS in a "landmark day in financial services history" that is intended to create one of the strongest banks in the UK but cause thousands of job losses and branch closures

• Fixed rate mortgage deals back to pre-credit crunch levels - with a catch
  

  Published 17th Sep 2008

  Fixed rate mortgages have dropped below 5 per cent again as competition returns to the market

• Planning system simplified for homeowners
  

  Published 17th Sep 2008

  People planning improvements to their home in order to boost its value will benefit from new government regulations, it has been claimed

• Barratt Developments takes a leaf out of car salesman's handbook
  

  Published 11th Sep 2008

  Barratt Developments, the country's largest housebuilder, has turned to the car industry in search of the kind of incentives that will help it to swim against the tide of a tumbling housing market