Latest Property News

• Florida: America’s cleanest state?
  

  Published 12th Jun 2008

  A new survey has revealed that Florida is one of the cleanest states in the USA..

• Quirky could prove expensive
  

  Published 12th Jun 2008

  Homeowners that live in quirky homes can afford to charge a premium on their property as buyers will be willing to pay extra to get something unique, an industry expert has said

• Revealed: London’s ‘slump proof’ star
  

  Published 11th Jun 2008

  According Cluttons, London’s leading estate agency, Wapping, with its proximity to Canary Wharf and access to the West End, appears to have been ‘slump-proof’ seeing price rises as opposed to falls, according to Hyman

• More buy-to-let mortgage arrears
  

  Published 09th Jun 2008

  The number of buy-to-let landlords in arrears at Bradford & Bingley shot up without the lending giant noticing until too late

• Crash in transactions
  

  Published 09th Jun 2008

  Property sales will fall by at least 40% this year, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

• Bradford & Bingley raises mortgage rates
  

  Published 09th Jun 2008

  Bradford & Bingley, which has stunned investors with a stark profit warning, has raised its mortgage rates by up to 0.55 percentage points as it is hit by increasing funding costs

• Rock in mortgage deal with Lloyds
  

  Published 06th Jun 2008

  Lloyds TSB has reached a deal so that Northern Rock mortgage customers coming to the end of their fixed rate deals will be encouraged to switch to it