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View Article  Mortgage approvals drop sharply

Figures revealing a sharp drop in mortgage approvals in January have confirmed that the UK housing market made a slow start to the year.

The Bank of England said that the number of home loans approved for house purchases in January fell by 17% compared with the previous month.

The ...   more »

View Article  Home buyers get more options

‘Cash is King’ has been the rule for some time for those buying a property, but new analysis from moneysupermarket.com has shown that providers are beginning to loosen the purse strings with more products now available to mortgage borrowers with lower deposits or equity in their properties.

Deals with an ...   more »

View Article  Stars ht by the Dubai property bubble

David Beckham and Brad Pitt are believed to be among the celebrities and sportsmen who bought villas in Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, a luxury development that juts out into the Gulf. But when the property bubble burst this year, residents saw the value of their investments collapse. Yesterday their situation ...   more »

View Article  Nationwide sees risk of house price fall in 2010

House prices could retreat in 2010 if unemployment rises sharply, Britain's third-largest mortgage lender Nationwide warned on Friday.

A lack of supply and low interest rates have boosted the housing market this year, but Nationwide said prices could go into reverse with unemployment set to rise further and a stock ...   more »

View Article  34 Repossession hotpots named

More help was offered to struggling homeowners today as the government officially named 34 repossession "hotspots" across the country - including Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old constituency, and four areas of London - the move came as the Council of Mortgage Lenders published figures showing that the number of families forced ...   more »

View Article  Prices to fall in 2010?

Property group Savills is predicting ups and downs within the housing market over the next five years - according to the group, after a 3.7% rise in values this year, the market will see peaks and troughs...

Next year will see a drop of around 6-7%, while values will rise ...   more »

View Article  Cheap Money may create another property bubble

Great swaths of the world’s residential property market are not just in full recovery mode — they are booming. While the property pages in Britain have focused on a slight pick-up at the top end of the market, partly because of a revival in bankers’ bonuses, there is a full-scale ...   more »

View Article  House prices edge higher

House prices have edged upwards for the third consecutive month in spite of signs of a slowdown in demand from new buyers, according to Hometrack, a research company.

Its monthly survey of estate agents and surveyors in England and Wales showed that house prices grew by 0.2 per cent in ...   more »

View Article  Upmarket house prices keep rising

Prices for homes worth more than £1m have continued to rise at a surprising rate this summer as cash-rich buyers chase limited supply, according to data from two leading estate agents, to be published on Friday.

Prime house prices in central London rose by 1.3 per cent in the past four weeks, their sixth consecutive monthly rise, according to Knight Frank. This meant the annual rate of change improved to minus 8.9 per cent from minus 12 per cent in August.

Savills said prime London prices rose by 4 per cent between June and September this year, following a similar rise in the second quarter. Price growth in some areas exceeded 9 per cent since March this year, notably in affluent London areas such as Chelsea, Kensington and Notting Hill.......

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View Article  UK repossessions eased in spring
The number of homes repossessed in the UK fell 10% in the second quarter of the year compared with the previous three months, lenders say. But the 11,400 homes repossessed was a rise of 14% compared with the the same period the previous year, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) ...   more »
View Article  RICS upbeat on house prices

There's more optimism in the housing market today, with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) predicting house prices will end the year higher than they started.

Following a strong start to the summer, RICS has changed its earlier forecast of a 10%-15% fall in 2009 made at the start ...   more »

View Article  Lack of buy-to-let mortgages 'holding back investors'

Landlords are being prevented from purchasing properties due to a lack of available buy-to-let mortgages, according to Paragon Mortgages.

In its latest PRS Trends Report, it suggested that 43 per cent of landlords questioned reported that a lack of finance is the main obstacle preventing them from expanding their property ...   more »

View Article  Summer rise in mortgage lending

The total amount of UK mortgage lending rose sharply in June compared with the previous month, according to lenders.

The amount lent by members of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) reached £12.3bn in June, up from £10.5bn a month earlier.

However, the rise was mainly the result of the ...   more »

View Article  London house prices 'continuing to fall'

House prices in the capital are continuing to fall despite a nationwide improvement in the annual rate of decline, official figures have shown.

Prices in the region have dropped by 16.3% during the past year, while most of the UK has witnessed a slight improvement in the rate of price ...   more »

View Article  House prices down again in June

House prices fell by 0.5% in June, according to Halifax's house price index published this week, taking the average cost of a home down to £157, 713. House price inflation was still down by 1.9% in the second quarter of this year, though this is the smallest fall recorded since ...   more »

View Article  Interim regime for property sale and rent back begins today in UK

A new interim regime for landlords that operate property sale and rent back businesses comes into force in the UK today.

SRB landlords and companies have one month to submit an application to the Financial Services Authority for permission to continue their business activities as full regulation kicks in.

Under ...   more »

View Article  House prices may have hit bottom of market

House prices fell by the smallest monthly amount in almost a year in April, down by 0.3 per cent to an average of £152,898, according to official figures published on Monday.

The latest data from the Land Registry offers further evidence that the housing market has begun to stabilise and ...   more »

View Article  UK house prices 'down in April'

House prices in the UK fell by 0.4% in April reversing some of the rise seen in March, according to the Nationwide.

The building society's figures show that the pace of decline in house prices slowed, but the typical home still cost 15% less than a year ago.

The price ...   more »

View Article  Nationwide axes mortgage promise

The UK's biggest building society, the Nationwide, will no longer promise new borrowers that it will peg its variable rate mortgages to the Bank rate.

Existing customers on the Nationwide's variable rate home loan, called BMR, are guaranteed to pay no more than 2% above the Bank rate, currently at ...   more »

View Article  Tougher home pack rules in force

New rules have come into force which mean home owners must have a home information pack (Hip) in place before putting their property on the market.

Previously, sellers could simply order a Hip before erecting a for-sale sign.

Vendors must also set out extra details such as the home's council ...   more »

View Article  Mortgage lending slump continues

Mortgage lending continued to fall in January, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).

Just 23,400 mortgages were completed for all house buyers, a new record low, with only 8,900 first-time buyers able to take out home loans.

The number of mortgages lent was down by 28% from December, ...   more »

View Article  Bank to use 'newly created' money

The Bank of England is to launch its latest attempt to boost the supply of credit and stimulate the UK economy, using £75bn it has, in effect, created.

It will offer to buy up to £2bn of government bonds from investment institutions and individuals, in the first of a series ...   more »

View Article  Housing market 'still in a slump'

UK property sales between December and February remained at their lowest level in at least 31 years, the country's surveyors have reported.

Nine homes were sold per surveyor in the three months, the lowest since the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' (Rics) survey began in 1978.

This was despite the ...   more »

View Article  Mortgage approvals up in January

The number of mortgage approvals in the UK made by banks rose slightly in January, industry figures have shown.

Mortgage approval levels hit 23,376 last month, up 4% from 22,416 in December, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) said.

However, the number of approvals in January was still 43% lower than ...   more »

View Article  Dominic Farrell Announces The Prime Contractor For The Grove Spa Resort, Mazotos, Cyprus

The Grove Spa Resort, Cyprus – Appointment of General Constructions Company Ltd (GCC) as Prime Contractor

InvestinCyprus.com Developers has appointed the General Constructions Company (GCC) as the prime contractor for its landmark 5 Star mixed-use scheme, The Grove Spa Resort in Mazotos, Cyprus.

GCC was founded in 1947 and is ...   more »

View Article  Cyprus Property Investors Delighted With News Of 14 New Golf Courses Approval

The Cyprus government has finally approved the creation of 14 new golf courses, which will bring the total number on the island to 17.  The decision was finalised at a cabinet meeting last Thursday (5th February 2009).

Government Spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said the actual decision had been taken ...   more »

View Article  Bank of England Forecast To Cut Interest Rates To Another Historic Low

LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England is very likely to cut interest rates to another 300-year low in February to deaden the blow from what is already the fastest pace of economic decline in nearly three decades.

Sixty-one of 68 economists polled by Reuters January 28-29 said the Monetary ...   more »

View Article  Is housing market starting to pick up?

Norwich has been hit hard over the past year by a fall in house prices and a slowdown in the property market. But city estate agents say signs are slowly beginning to emerge that confidence and interest in the market is growing. REBECCA GOUGH reports.

Homeowners in East Anglia saw ...   more »

View Article  Mortgages 'fell by 30% in 2008'

UK mortgage lending fell by 30% in 2008 to the lowest level since 2002, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) says.

Lending totalled £256.4bn last year, compared with £363.7bn in 2007, as the credit crunch triggered a mortgage drought making it harder to get a loan.

Analysts say that even ...   more »

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