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• Dubai goes cold
  

  Published 01st May 2009

  The average price of a Dubai property tumbled by 41 per cent in Q1 of this year, according to a report compiled by Colliers International..

• Cyprus land ruling hits second home-owners
  

  Published 29th Apr 2009

  The European court of justice yesterday awarded a Greek Cypriot refugee the right to win back land he was forced to flee when war partitioned the island in 1974, in a landmark ruling with possible ramifications for thousands of second homeowners in northern Cyprus

• New rules for Dubai residency
  

  Published 29th Apr 2009

  Government officials in Dubai are in talks to introduce a new law that would clarify the rules on issuing residency visas to property buyers in Dubai - and it could be introduced as soon as this year..

• Complaints by the bucket-load as boiler insurance firm runs for cover
  

  Published 27th Apr 2009

  CoverHeat has left its angry customers to cope with leaking systems and holding worthless policies

• Landlords in warning over retailers' insolvency deals
  

  Published 27th Apr 2009

  Commercial landlords have called for tougher controls on the way insolvencies are managed to prevent firms using administrators "to threaten suppliers"

• Government announces new support for homeowners
  

  Published 22nd Apr 2009

  A much-delayed scheme to help homeowners who suffer a sharp fall in income has been launched by the Government today without the support of the majority of mortgage lenders

• Couple who disguised their £500,000 home as a hay barn to outwit planners face eviction
  

  Published 21st Apr 2009

  A couple who disguised their £500,000 home as a hay barn in a bid to outwit planners face eviction