Latest Property News

• RICS presses for change in VAT rules to bring abandoned houses back into use
  

  Published 22nd Dec 2008

  The Government could house tens of thousands of families if it took steps to help to bring Britain's empty homes back into use, according to a report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

• Ski chalets glut sees prices fall by a third
  

  Published 22nd Dec 2008

  A plethora of ski chalets for sale across France and Switzerland has put serious downward pressure on prices, with some properties now selling for nearly a third less than last year

• Mortgage arrears 'to hit 500,000'
  

  Published 18th Dec 2008

  Mortgage lenders predict the recession will lead to a huge rise in arrears among their borrowers in 2009

• British interest rates 'set to follow' U.S. to ZERO per cent all-time low
  

  Published 17th Dec 2008

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• Abbey tightens lending conditions
  

  Published 17th Dec 2008

  Abbey will introduce a tougher affordability test for new mortgage customers today

• Nationwide brings back 95% mortgage
  

  Published 17th Dec 2008

  Nationwide, Britain's biggest building society, has become the first lender to re-introduce mortgages worth up to 95 per cent of a property's value

• Energy groups ordered to speed up £500m price cuts
  

  Published 16th Dec 2008

  Ofgem, the electricity regulator today threatened to slap a Competition Commission inquiry on the big energy suppliers after accusing them of dragging their feet over the delivery of £500 million worth of price cuts to disadvantaged households