Latest Property News

• End of the 'liar loans': Taxman to check wage slips in a bid to beat mortgage fraudsters
  

  Published 31st Aug 2011

  People who bump up their earnings on mortgage applications are to be stopped in their tracks with the launch of a new scheme

• Mortgage approvals up 1.5% to 14-month high but housing market remains 'in deep rut'
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  Mortgages approved for house purchases increased by 1.5 per cent to 49,239 in July, according to new figures released today

• Bovis sees further lift for investors
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  Housebuilder Bovis Homes (BVS.L) expects to deliver further improvements to investors after strong trading in 2011 enabled it to post a 19 percent increase in private home reservations

• Regus profit up; sees further sales growth
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  Office space supplier Regus Plc (RGU.L) expects further improvements in its sales after it posted a 34 percent rise in first-half adjusted pretax profit on a pick up in demand from big businesses for temporary space amid economic uncertainties

• Shortfall in planning permissions for new homes
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  Figures released in the latest Housing Pipeline report from the Home Builders Federation (HBF) demonstrate why Government must ignore recent scaremongering about its proposals for planning and stand firm on its commitment to growth

• Second quarter increase in Scotland mortgage lending
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  House purchase lending in Scotland rose by more than the UK as a whole in the second quarter of 2011, according to new data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)

• Farmland prices reach all time high
  

  Published 30th Aug 2011

  Farmland prices reached an all time high during the first half of 2011, as land availability failed to match growing demand, says the latest Rural Land Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)