Latest Property News

• UK house sales 'at 30-year low'
  

  Published 11th Nov 2008

  The number of UK home sales has fallen to at least a 30-year low over the past three months, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said

• Lenders heed calls for rate cuts
  

  Published 08th Nov 2008

  The main mortgage lenders have started to respond to the government's demand that they should cut their mortgage lending rates

• Farm borrowing at record levels
  

  Published 06th Nov 2008

  Farmers are borrowing money at record levels as higher dairy prices and better harvests encourage them to buy land and new machinery

• Bovis warns of tough conditions
  

  Published 06th Nov 2008

  Housebuilder Bovis Homes has warned that it is operating in its worst trading environment "for many years"

• HSBC will not pass on Bank's rate cut
  

  Published 05th Nov 2008

  Homeowners' hopes of relief from the financial crisis were dashed last night as Britain's biggest bank cautioned that it was unlikely to give them the full benefit of this week's expected cut in interest rates, and another bank prepared to put up its charges tomorrow

• Building societies set to merge
  

  Published 05th Nov 2008

  Skipton Building Society has agreed to merge with the smaller Scarborough Building Society as the mutual sector continues to shrink

• House prices slump by 14.6%
  

  Published 30th Oct 2008

  House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today