Latest Property News

• Remortgaging drops as house purchase approvals remain static
  

  Published 23rd Jun 2011

  Britain's banks have reported a big drop-off in remortgaging activity as expectations of an interest rate rise begin to fade

• Losing the roof over their heads: Repossession hotspots revealed
  

  Published 21st Jun 2011

  Homeowners in Corby in the East Midlands are most at risk of having their home repossessed, a study of the country's reposessions hostpots found today

• Sarkozy drops proposed French second home tax
  

  Published 21st Jun 2011

  Overseas investors owning a holiday home in France can breathe a sigh of relief, as the French president has dropped his unpopular plan to hit foreign property owners with a third tax on their homes

• Barratt in £128 million London property deal
  

  Published 20th Jun 2011

  Homebuilder Barratt Developments has secured a 128 million pound deal with partner London& Quadrant to build 375 new homes near the Arsenal football stadium in north London

• Rightmove sees modest 2011 house price rise
  

  Published 20th Jun 2011

  Asking prices for houses in England and Wales are likely to rise overall in 2011, property website Rightmove forecast on Monday, scaling back earlier predictions for a steep fall in prices for the second half of the year

• Gross mortgage lending up 1 percent in May - CML
  

  Published 20th Jun 2011

  Gross mortgage lending in Britain rose 1 percent on the year in May and was 12 percent higher on the month, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said on Monday

• Canadians driving sales boom in Florida
  

  Published 17th Jun 2011

  The strength of the Canadian dollar, and the desire of the USA's northern neighbours to secure a cut-price home in the sunshine state, is thought to be behind a large increase in property sales across the board in Florida last quarter