Latest Property News

• Drivers facing £250-a-year tax to park at work despite pledge to end 'war on motorists'
  

  Published 23rd Aug 2010

  Councils across the country are pushing ahead with plans to charge motorists up to £250-a-year to park at workplaces

• A nice little earner: David Cameron rents out his Notting Hill home for up to £72k a year
  

  Published 21st Aug 2010

  David and Samantha Cameron are pocketing up to £6,000 a month by renting out their London home while they live in No 10

• Lenders trim 2010 home repossession forecast
  

  Published 20th Aug 2010

  Britain's lenders expect to repossess fewer homes this year than they had previously forecast, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said, after data showed a steady fall in the number of mortgages in arrears

• BAA refinances £625 million of debt
  

  Published 20th Aug 2010

  Airport operator BAA moved a step closer to refinancing its debt by agreeing new lending facilities with a group of eight banks and said it would pay a large chunk of its borrowings next month

• Mortgage repayments halved for first-time buyers, but many still can't get on the housing ladder
  

  Published 20th Aug 2010

  Mortgage repayments for first-time buyers have nearly halved during the past three years due to record low interest rates and house price falls

• No end in sight for mortgage drought
  

  Published 19th Aug 2010

  Home owners are seeing no end in sight to the mortgage drought despite banks profit margins reaching a record high

• House price indexes come under the spotlight
  

  Published 18th Aug 2010

  The Government has launched a review of housing market statistics following concerns that the different methods used for calculating house prices may be causing confusion