Latest Property News

• Tracker mortgage rates fall to all-time low... but fixed rate deals surge to 10-month high
  

  Published 07th Mar 2011

  Rates on tracker mortgages have fallen to a record low but the cost of fixed rate deals has risen to its highest level for nearly a year as a base rate hike looks imminent, research showed today

• RECKLESS AND RUTHLESS: Files show how aggressive lenders peddled mortgages borrowers couldn't afford and pursued them when they failed to meet payments
  

  Published 07th Mar 2011

  Aggressive mortgage lending to high-risk borrowers by a British subsidiary of defunct US investment bank Lehman Brothers at the height of the property boom has been fully revealed for the first time in files obtained by Financial Mail

• Struggling retailer JJB Sports asks its landlords to waive rent
  

  Published 04th Mar 2011

  Troubled JJB Sports has gone cap in hand to its landlords asking them to waive almost half of their rent bill in a desperate bid to avoid collapsing into administration

• Do the continental! Homes near the Eurostar are hot property for cross-Channel commuters
  

  Published 04th Mar 2011

  Slipping across to the Continent for le weekend has been a treat for decades, but speeding over as part of a working commute is a more recent innovation — and an increasingly popular one

• Banks 'must pay for mortgage internal error' and not ask consumers to do it
  

  Published 04th Mar 2011

  A consumer group today called on Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks to stop asking its mortgage customers to make up repayment shortfalls caused by a computer error

• Property market 2.8% lower than a year ago - Halifax
  

  Published 04th Mar 2011

  House prices in the UK fell by an annual 2.8% in February, the fastest rate of decline in 16 months, Halifax said today

• Buying home 'cheaper than renting' in eight out of 10 British towns
  

  Published 02nd Mar 2011

  Buying a house is cheaper than renting it in eight out of 10 towns as house prices are falling and rents are rising, a new research has shown