Latest Property News

• Hammerson to sell landmark
  

  Published 16th Jan 2009

  Hammerson will put its largest property on the market in the latest sign of a necessary recapitalisation of the real estate sector

• Property slump sees sharp fall in houses built by Taylor Wimpey
  

  Published 13th Jan 2009

  Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey today reported a sharp fall in the number of houses built last year, but said it had reduced costs and debt levels to cope with the property slump

• Russians retreat from London's prime property market
  

  Published 12th Jan 2009

  What will happen to London’s prime property market now the oligarchs are no longer buying

• Anger as lenders drag their feet on passing cut to homeowners
  

  Published 09th Jan 2009

  Many of Britain's leading banks looked on a collision course with the government last night when they said merely that they were keeping their main lending rates "under review" after the Bank of England cut the base rate to an all-time low of 1.5%

• Nationwide defies Alistair Darling on mortgage interest rate cuts
  

  Published 02nd Jan 2009

  Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society, will not pass on any further cuts to the Bank of England base rate to customers with tracker mortgages, The Times has learnt

• Taylor Wimpey close to interest deferral agreement with lenders
  

  Published 24th Dec 2008

  Taylor Wimpey, Britain's largest house builder, said yesterday it expected to strike a deal with its lenders over a deferral agreement on its interest cover covenants

• Sterling prospects attract foreign property buyers
  

  Published 24th Dec 2008

  Sharp falls in sterling and the prospect that interest rates could hit zero per cent next year are luring foreign buyers into the UK property market