Latest Property News

• US home loan demand surges as interest rates dive
  

  Published 08th Aug 2007

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S

• Half of first time buyers opt to live near the office
  

  Published 08th Aug 2007

  Most first time buyers choose an easy commute over living close to friends and family, reports Alliance & Leicester Mortgages..

• House prices will not fall
  

  Published 07th Aug 2007

  The UK property market is not likely to see prices fall in 2008, according to the latest forecast

• Property prices 'set to soar'
  

  Published 07th Aug 2007

  Property prices looks set to soar over the next five years with the average cost of a home in England expected to breach the £300,000 mark, it has been reported

• 60% of homeowners not interested in environmental issues
  

  Published 07th Aug 2007

  Only one in six home movers believe that the introduction of HIPs (Home Information Packs) will speed up the buying process and just one third believe they are a good idea, according to a new survey by thinkproperty, a major new, independent consumer property portal which offers estate agents an online sales and marketing channel to deliver better value, improved lead generation and excellence in customer service

• Uninsured Brits are playing a risky game
  

  Published 06th Aug 2007

  The Association of British Insurers (ABI) predict that one in four Brits lack any form of household insurance, a risk many would urge homeowners not to run

• UK will escape property valuations crisis
  

  Published 06th Aug 2007

  The UK property market is unlikely to suffer the kind of valuations crisis that brought some of Germany’s largest open-ended property funds close to collapse in 2005 and early 2006, according to industry research