Latest Property News

• A blueprint for Commercial property property disaster
  

  Published 10th Feb 2009

  It is hard to know which is the dominant emotion as Hammerson yesterday kicked off what threatens to be a tidal wave of rights issues for the commercial property sector

• Buyers lining up, says RICS, but loans are out of reach
  

  Published 10th Feb 2009

  Increased interest from bargain-hunters failed to boost the housing market last month, as the number of sales fell to a record low of just three properties per estate agent

• UK reduces interest rates to 1%
  

  Published 05th Feb 2009

  The Bank of England has reduced interest rates to a record low of 1% from 1.5% in an attempt to boost the slowing economy, as widely expected

• Mortgage hurdles become tougher
  

  Published 04th Feb 2009

  The conditions attached to mortgages have become more severe in the past month, as banks have continued to rein in their lending to new borrowers

• Buy the flat and we'll throw in the job to pay for it
  

  Published 04th Feb 2009

  For young homebuyers facing the downturn, the offer from the Shanghai Sanxiang Co was unmissable

• Commercial property values plunge
  

  Published 02nd Feb 2009

  UK commercial property values fell by a record amount in 2008, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD)

• Get ready for the 8p-a-month mortgage as Bank of England prepares to slash rates to 1%
  

  Published 02nd Feb 2009

  Some homeowners could see their monthly mortgage payments drop as low as zero this week