Latest Property News

• Recession UK: The £238,000 flat that has lost 70% of its value in two years
  

  Published 23rd Jun 2008

  Once seen as a sure-fire way of making a small fortune, newly-built flats have become the worst victims of the housing market meltdown

• Home insurance: Flood-risk properties could be 'uninsurable'
  

  Published 19th Jun 2008

  More than half a million homes in England could become uninsurable unless action is taken to protect them against flooding, the insurance industry warned today

• Britain's social housing industry suggests £1bn spree on empty stock
  

  Published 19th Jun 2008

  The group representing Britain's social housing industry is in talks with the Government to free £1 billion of public money to help to bail out the new homes market

• Estate agents 'need regulating'
  

  Published 16th Jun 2008

  Estate agents, letting agents and managing agents, who handle residential property, should be subjected to formal regulation, a report says

• High street stalwart falls victim to slowdown
  

  Published 16th Jun 2008

  The crisis in the housing market has claimed its first major high street victim

• Rental market stabilising
  

  Published 16th Jun 2008

  Marginal falls in rental returns for houses and flats are reported in the latest quarterly survey of member letting agents published today by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA)

• Mortgage arrangement fees rocket
  

  Published 13th Jun 2008

  The number of fixed-rate mortgages with hefty arrangement fees has rocketed as lenders vie to shore up their margins, figures show