Latest Property News

• Taylor Wimpey resumes dividend as margin focus pays off
  

  Published 29th Feb 2012

  British housebuilder Taylor Wimpey (TW.L) resumed paying a dividend on Wednesday as its tactic of focusing on margin rather than volume saw it swing back to a full-year profit

• UK property market 'is one of worst in Europe' as average home sees a THIRD wiped off its real value since 2007 - RICS
  

  Published 28th Feb 2012

  House prices in the UK have taken the biggest real hit since the peak of the boom among a dozen major European property markets, thanks to our persistently high inflation, according to a new report

• Persimmon profit jumps, returns cash to shareholders
  

  Published 28th Feb 2012

  Housebuilder Persimmon posted a slightly stronger than expected jump in full-year profit on Tuesday and said it would return 1.9 billion pounds of surplus cash to shareholders

• House prices remain stagnant but buyer interest strongest for five years, says Hometrack
  

  Published 28th Feb 2012

  House prices have remained unchanged in the first two months of 2012, but there was a marked increase in the number of potential home buyers searching for a property

• One in THREE properties now rented in UK as home ownership hits lowest level since days of Thatcher
  

  Published 21st Feb 2012

  Home ownership has fallen to its lowest level since Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, figures show

• House prices fall further, but outlook improves
  

  Published 20th Feb 2012

  House prices continued to fall in the three months to January, but surveyors became much less downbeat about prices for the coming months

• Mortgage lending jumps by 10% as first-time buyers scramble to do deals before end of stamp duty amnesty
  

  Published 20th Feb 2012

  The amount lent in mortgages has leapt 10 per cent in the past year as first-time buyers race to seal deals before the stamp duty amnesty ends