Latest Property News

• Shop vacancies highest since 2008 - report
  

  Published 24th Mar 2012

  UK shop vacancy rates rose to 14.6 percent in February, the highest level since June 2008, as more struggling retailers shut stores after Christmas, a report from the Local Data Company (LDC) said on Friday

• Game Group set to become biggest High Street casualty since Woolworths as it calls in administrators
  

  Published 21st Mar 2012

  Game Group is set to become the next major retailer to disappear from the High Street as it called in the administrators today

• Stamp duty raid on £2m homes and a crackdown on offshore tax dodges
  

  Published 21st Mar 2012

  A tax grab on wealthy homebuyers – almost all of them in London and the South East – will be unveiled in today’s Budget

• Booming India leads world house price league as UK property fares better than U.S., Japan and Germany markets
  

  Published 20th Mar 2012

  House prices in emerging market countries saw the biggest increases over the last ten years, while Britain’s housing market fared better than many other developed countries, research has revealed

• Yours for a cool £2m: Average asking price for home in London borough surges to record high as wealthy foreigners from Russia and Asia move in
  

  Published 19th Mar 2012

  The average asking price for a home in a London borough has burst through the £2 million barrier for the first time thanks to an injection of wealth by multi-millionaires from Russia, India and China, it emerged today

• Taxman denied more than £1bn as rich and famous register their townhouses, mansions and castles abroad
  

  Published 18th Mar 2012

  The country is missing out on more than £1bn in tax as the rich and famous have registered thousands of their exclusive properties into offshore companies, it has been revealed

• Homeowners in their 50s 'facing interest-only mortgage timebomb' after taking out loans during boom years
  

  Published 15th Mar 2012

  Homeowners in their 50s are sitting on ‘a ticking timebomb’ of mortgages handed out during the boom years, the financial regulator warned yesterday