Latest Property News

• Stamp duty crackdown: Osborne targets loophole for property placed offshore
  

  Published 24th Jan 2012

  A crackdown on tax avoidance centred on hundreds of billions of pounds of property placed offshore is expected to be unveiled within months

• 'An Englishman's home IS his castle': Millionaire wins right to ban planning inspectors from nosing round his home
  

  Published 24th Jan 2012

  It is a country estate of such beauty that it inspired the composition of one of our best loved hymns

• Repossessions set to soar as obscure EU clause means those in arrears for just three months will default on loans
  

  Published 23rd Jan 2012

  Homeowners could face soaring mortgage costs because of an obscure EU directive being pushed through the European Parliament

• Buy-to-let investors set for another ‘bumper year’ as tenant demand continues to soar
  

  Published 20th Jan 2012

  Landlords and letting agents could be set for another bumper year, as historic low interest rates and gradual easing of lending restrictions continues to stimulate growth for buy-to-let properties

• UK submits plan to cut home solar panel subsidies
  

  Published 19th Jan 2012

  Britain's energy ministry on Thursday submitted plans to parliament to cut subsidies for solar panels on homes from March 3, it said

• HSBC says £15 billion on offer for homeowners
  

  Published 19th Jan 2012

  HSBC said it will make 15 billion pounds available for UK homeowners to borrow this year, potentially providing 150,000 mortgages and likely to increase its share of business in a shrinking market

• Canary Wharf diversifies with £90 million buy
  

  Published 18th Jan 2012

  Canary Wharf Group underscored its faith in the development potential of its financial hub in east London with the 90.4 million pounds purchase of full control of a semi-derelict site adjacent to its existing estate