Latest Property News

• Retail property investors pick Germany over UK in Q3 - CBRE
  

  Published 02nd Nov 2011

  Germany overtook the UK as Europe's largest retail property investment market in the third quarter of this year, with investors shying from Britain's weak economic growth forecasts and falling consumer spending, research showed

• Royal Mail suspends deliveries on bumpy roads over health and safety fears
  

  Published 02nd Nov 2011

  Postmen have been ordered to boycott homes on 'unmade roads' because of health and safety fears

• London, Prague offices defensive in second recession - DTZ
  

  Published 01st Nov 2011

  Offices in London's City district and Prague offer the best defensive plays for property investors seeking to safeguard total returns if the pan-European sector is dragged into a second recession by the Euro zone debt crisis, research showed

• Estate agents report highest number of house hunters for four years
  

  Published 01st Nov 2011

  There was an unexpected sign of a surge in demand for property as the number of house hunters hit its highest level for four years last month, estate agents have reported

• Housing market 'treading water' as prices drift with sluggish recovery, says Nationwide
  

  Published 01st Nov 2011

  The housing market remains 'subdued' despite prices rising by 0.4 per cent last month, Nationwide warned

• Virgin makes second round Northern Rock bid
  

  Published 26th Oct 2011

  Virgin Money has put in a second-round bid for Northern Rock, the retail bank which was nationalised after nearly collapsing during the credit crisis, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday

• Ireland's NAMA financing commercial property deals
  

  Published 26th Oct 2011

  Ireland's state-run National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has started offering financing to commercial property buyers and expects to ramp up such lending next year, its chief executive said on Wednesday