Latest Property News

• Minister calls for unprecedented 30-year fixed rate mortgages for families and first-timers
  

  Published 21st Oct 2011

  Mortgages with rates fixed for as long as 30 years are being called for by housing minister Grant Shapps to help families struggling to organise tight budgets

• Bellway hikes dividend, eyes more growth
  

  Published 18th Oct 2011

  British homebuilder Bellway Plc (BWY.L) hiked its dividend by nearly a third after posting a 51 percent rise in full-year profit, and is eying further growth in sales as it drives new site openings across the country

• Hotel porter takes chunk of ex-wife's £500,000 lottery winnings after High Court battle
  

  Published 18th Oct 2011

  A hotel porter has won a chunk of his ex-wife's £500,000 National Lottery windfall after a High Court fight - because she had used some of the money to buy a London home

• RICS: Positive momentum 'fading'
  

  Published 17th Oct 2011

  Improvements seen in the commercial property market in first half of the year faltered during Q3 2011 as occupier demand fell back for the first time in 12 months, says the latest RICS UK Commercial Market Survey

• House prices up most since February but only in south
  

  Published 17th Oct 2011

  Asking prices for homes in England and Wales rose 2.8 percent in October but the gulf between prices in the north and south was its widest in at least nine years, property marketing company Rightmove said on Monday

• Homes 'TWICE as expensive in the South as the North' as price divide continues to increase
  

  Published 17th Oct 2011

  The average house price in the South is now more than twice as high as in the North, a study has revealed

• Rent is 'unaffordable' for families in most parts of England
  

  Published 14th Oct 2011

  The government is being urged to take action to stabilise the rental market following news that families in over half of local authorities in England face unaffordable levels of rent