Latest Property News

• Anger over Labour's 'secret plan to push up council taxes'
  

  Published 19th Feb 2009

  Labour was last night accused of secretly plotting to raise extra cash from millions of households with a nationwide council tax revaluation

• Coventry Building Society offers 100% mortgages
  

  Published 19th Feb 2009

  Coventry Building Society has thrown a lifeline to customers in negative equity after becoming the first lender to offer re-mortgage deals worth 100 per cent of a property’s value

• Location, Location host Phil Spencer's property firm goes bust
  

  Published 18th Feb 2009

  Property expert Phil Spencer's homefinding business has finally gone bust

• Homebuyers frozen out by loans crunch
  

  Published 12th Feb 2009

  Homebuyers are being left out in the cold by banks and building societies that have all but shut the door on the property market

• British Land launches £740m rights issue
  

  Published 12th Feb 2009

  British Land is to raise £740 million through a rights issue, becoming the second FTSE 100 property company to call on its shareholders for cash this week

• House prices rise in prime London locations
  

  Published 11th Feb 2009

  Asking prices for properties in London's best-heeled areas increased by an average of 1.3% (£16,106) in January, according to Primelocation.com – the second index to report a rise in house prices last month

• Mayfair owners take their homes off the market
  

  Published 11th Feb 2009

  Sales of super-prime property in central London have seized up as house prices have plunged and cash from City bonus-earners has evaporated, figures from estate agents showed yesterday