Latest Property News

• Canary Wharf sees rush to sell property
  

  Published 15th Dec 2008

  The number of homes available for sale in Tower Hamlets, the London borough home to Canary Wharf, has jumped sharply in the past month, it has been discovered, showing the true effect of the recent job losses in the City

• Housing starts lowest since 1924 as construction bears brunt of recession
  

  Published 15th Dec 2008

  The number of homes being built in Britain has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1920s as falling house prices exacerbate the crisis in the construction industry

• Voters reject congestion charge
  

  Published 12th Dec 2008

  The people of Greater Manchester have voted against plans to introduce a congestion charge in the region

• Will buy-to-let student flats beat slump?
  

  Published 12th Dec 2008

  Student accommodation will provide good returns as a buy-to-let investment even during the recession, it was claimed today

• Failed buy-to-let guru back with new scheme
  

  Published 12th Dec 2008

  Buy-to-let evangelist Jim Moore - whose Inside Track Seminars (ITS) and Instant Access Properties (IAP) firms went bust earlier this year, leaving wannabe "millionaires" as creditors - is back with a new "minimum investment and maximum return" property deal

• Estate agents offer ‘bargains’ in Christmas sale
  

  Published 11th Dec 2008

  The discounting sales tactics being employed by Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and other stores are being adopted by another sector desperate for custom – estate agents

• HSBC says to boost home lending 20 percent in 2009
  

  Published 08th Dec 2008

  HSBC Holdings unveiled plans on Monday to increase its lending to homeowners by 20 percent in 2009 as banks come under political pressure to pass on the benefit of government measures to boost lending