Latest Property News

• HSBC slashes fixed-rate mortgages
  

  Published 09th Sep 2008

  HSBC, one of the high street's biggest mortgage lenders, carved 0.56 per cent off its two, three and five year fixed rate mortgages

• Derbyshire Building Society admits to facing uncertain future
  

  Published 09th Sep 2008

  Derbyshire Building Society, the mutual rescued yesterday by Nationwide, was wrong-footed by bad bets in the money markets, hamstrung by a botched IT system and facing the consequences of a poorly timed £1.4 billion foray into sub-prime lending

• Skipton loan plan aimed at first-time buyers
  

  Published 04th Sep 2008

  The UK’s sixth largest building society has launched an innovative scheme to help first-time buyers on to the property ladder in the first attempt by a leading mutual to re-establish the historical link between saving and mortgage lending

• Stamp duty axed below £175,000
  

  Published 03rd Sep 2008

  Homebuyers will not have to pay stamp duty on properties costing £175,000 or less for the next 12 months

• New regulations 'could simplify' processes for landlords
  

  Published 02nd Sep 2008

  Landlords could benefit from the introduction of new regulations covering rental properties that draw existing rules together into a comprehensive system, it has been claimed

• Alliance & Leicester cuts some mortgage rates
  

  Published 27th Aug 2008

  Mortgage bank Alliance & Leicester said it is cutting the rates on some of its home loans

• Lenders cut more mortgage rates
  

  Published 26th Aug 2008

  Another round of rate cuts has been announced by the Halifax, one of the UK's biggest mortgage lenders