Latest Property News

• Bellway's sales up on improving consumer confidence
  

  Published 10th Jun 2011

  Homebuilder Bellway said improving consumer confidence had helped deliver a 9 percent increase in sales between February and May, and added that current market conditions left it well placed for growth

• Bank keeps rates steady on downbeat growth view
  

  Published 09th Jun 2011

  The Bank of England kept interest rates at a record low on Thursday, springing no surprises as growing signs of economic weakness at home and abroad outweighed concern about above-target inflation

• Scottish Power raises energy tariffs from August
  

  Published 08th Jun 2011

  Scottish Power will increase domestic gas tariffs by nearly a fifth at the start of August in a move that could push consumer price inflation to a three-year high above 5 percent

• Irish house prices drop 1 percent in April versus March
  

  Published 07th Jun 2011

  The rate of decline in Irish house prices slowed in April compared to the previous month, data on Tuesday showed, but a recovery in property prices is not expected until Ireland's banking sector recovers

• European cities back on top, says Knight Frank
  

  Published 07th Jun 2011

  Prime Asian hub cities such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai may have dominated global real estate growth in the past few years, but it seems that wealthy overseas property investors are now turning their eyes back towards the major European capitals

• House prices up in May but post biggest annual fall in 1.5 years - Halifax
  

  Published 07th Jun 2011

  House prices inched up in May but fell at their sharpest annual rate in 1-1/2 years, figures from mortgage lender Halifax showed on Tuesday, in a further sign of weakness on the property market

• Gloucestershire street named UK's most romantic
  

  Published 06th Jun 2011

  Copse Hill Road in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire has been named as the most romantic street in Britain in a poll for Google Street View