Latest Property News

• Boost for local authority mortgages after government cuts borrowing rate
  

  Published 02nd Feb 2009

  Local authorities in Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth, Lambeth and Hackney are among councils that could soon be offering mortgages to help struggling home buyers onto the property ladder, when the government today reduces a rate at which they are able to lend money

• Mortgage approvals rise slightly
  

  Published 30th Jan 2009

  The number of new mortgages approved for home buyers picked up slightly in December, says the Bank of England

• Quarterly trend improving
  

  Published 29th Jan 2009

  The January fall recorded by the Nationwide is lower than the 2.5 per cent slump in value seen last month

• Ministers consider revival of local authority mortgages
  

  Published 28th Jan 2009

  The government is paving the way for local authorities to offer low-cost mortgages to first-time buyers and others struggling to obtain loans from traditional lenders who are demanding huge deposits

• Now council chiefs are sending heat detector vans down your street... to snoop on 'wasters'
  

  Published 23rd Jan 2009

  Town halls are photographing houses in the middle of the night to see whether they are wasting energy

• Ski resort set for face lift
  

  Published 22nd Jan 2009

  An Alpine ski resort is undertaking massive regeneration with the construction of two new districts..

• Halifax targets current account customers with low mortgage rates
  

  Published 22nd Jan 2009

  Halifax, part of Lloyds Banking Group, has joined the growing list of lenders offering tantalising mortgage rates to borrowers who promise to switch current accounts