Latest Property News

• Decline in UK house price eases in February - RICS
  

  Published 13th Mar 2012

  British house prices fell at their slowest pace since July 2010 last month, and surveyors expect prices to stabilise in the coming months as the economic outlook brightens, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Tuesday

• More bad news for borrowers as Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks join wave of mortgage rate hikes
  

  Published 09th Mar 2012

  Another rate shock has hit mortgage borrowers with Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks the latest to say they would hike monthly payments

• Massive rate shock hits 100,000 MORE as Bank of Ireland and Bristol & West borrowers face 50% hike in their monthly payments
  

  Published 07th Mar 2012

  Bank of Ireland and Bristol & West borrowers are the latest to have been delivered a mortgage rate shock with a huge hike from 2.99 per cent to 4.49 per cent, despite believing they had escaped a hike by not being sold to Nationwide

• House prices down 0.5 percent February - Halifax
  

  Published 06th Mar 2012

  British house prices dipped 0.5 percent in February, largely offsetting January's 0.6 percent rise, data from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Tuesday

• 'Mortgage timebomb': RBS and NatWest hike mortgage rates for 200,000 customers - Halifax could be next
  

  Published 02nd Mar 2012

  Royal Bank of Scotland has hiked mortgage rates for 200,000 of its customers, it emerged today

• House prices see highest monthly jump in two years but end of stamp duty holiday may cause market to stall
  

  Published 02nd Mar 2012

  Homeowners were given a boost today when it was revealed house prices have recorded their strongest monthly jump in nearly two years

• January mortgage lending posts surprisingly strong rise
  

  Published 29th Feb 2012

  Mortgage lending and mortgage approvals for house purchase in Britain posted a surprisingly strong rise in January, official data showed in a sign that the sluggish housing market is improving