Latest Property News

• Hips rollout continues
  

  Published 22nd Aug 2007

  Properties with three or more bedrooms will need a Home information pack (Hip) if they are to be put on the market from September 10th onwards

• July's magic mortgage medley
  

  Published 21st Aug 2007

  Gross mortgage lending reached a new record for the month of July, totalling £34.4 billion, according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders..

• New risk for coastal landowners
  

  Published 17th Aug 2007

  Natural England, an amalgamation of elements of English Nature, the Countryside Agency and the Rural Development Service, has been tasked with introducing legislation to create a new right of public access to England’s coastline, with the objective of providing the public with consistent and secure access

• Homeowners in ‘flood cash’ boost
  

  Published 17th Aug 2007

  36 local authorities affected by the July floods will receive £6.2m of Government funding..

• Concern over the Spanish property market
  

  Published 14th Aug 2007

  Panic selling of stocks in Spanish property firms earlier this week could cause a drop in house prices and spell disaster for more than 70,000 Britons who own a home there, experts have warned

• Billions of debt for grandparents
  

  Published 13th Aug 2007

  One in five retired homeowners in the UK have an outstanding mortgage on their home – with an average debt of £38,000

• Families hit by falling earnings and rising mortgages
  

  Published 13th Aug 2007

  Alliance Trust Research Centre’s latest quarterly Financial Reality Index indicates that families are not reining in their spending despite facing increasing financial pressures..