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31 2008
Belts tightening across UK
Homeowners have for only the second time in ten years injected more money in to their...

BBA highlights 33% drop in mortgages
The British Banking Association (BBA) has published research showing a significant drop in...

30 2008
1 in 5 homes not sold after a year
New research has found that in some areas of Britain a fifth of all homes on the market...

Repossessions to remain high in 2009
The number of repossessions predicted in the coming year continues to look bad as the...

29 2008
Residential property facing mixed outlook
A recent report from financialadvice.co.uk has suggested there are mixed approaches to the...

Property suffers 'worst year since 1930s'
In a round up of the past year the Independent has referred to 2008 and the financial...

Confidence in commercial property grows
The commercial property market has been predicted to offer rental yields in 2009 high...

End of 2008 highlights positive outlook
As 2008 draws to an end there are now once again glimmers of hope among estate agents,...

24 2008
House prices 'will fall for a further 2 years'
A leading market analyst has announced that the chances of the housing market returning to...

Landlords should 'look forward to 09'
Landlords and letting agents alike can afford to be confident about their prospects in the...

23 2008
Mixed results for 2009 unlikely to change tenants' minds
Analysts have for some time been predicting that house prices will turn around between...

2009 'make-or-break' for buy-to-lets
The coming year will be a crucial one for buy-to-let landlords, as the phenomenon which...

Repossessions 'could force down prices'
The number of repossessions in 2009 could further delay the rise in the value of the...

London market 'close to bottoming out'
Estate agent Savills has released research suggesting that the state of the property...

House prices take £22,000 hit
The average property in Britain has had £22,083 wiped from its value this year, it...

22 2008
Mortgage lenders fail to publish house price forecasts
Two of Britain's most prominent mortgage lenders have not published forecasts for house...

House price forecast abandoned
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has chosen not to make its annual house price...

NAEA publishes mixed figures
The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has given a mixed outlook on the year...

19 2008
Buying a home 'will be cheaper than renting'
Buying a property next year will be cheaper than the cost of renting one, it has been...

Property purchase interest takes year-end jump
Recent research has found that people are showing an increased interest in returning to...

Repossessions to hit 1991 levels
The number of those facing repossession of their homes in 2009 could match levels not seen...

Mortgage lending cuts amount to over half
Recent research concerning the level of gross mortgage lending recorded in 2008 shows that...

18 2008
Homeowners seeking help rises 25%
The past five years has seen the number of people in Scotland contacting professionals...

Half of Brits 'would buy a house now'
Almost half of the respondents to a recent survey regarding the current housing market...

Houses sold at auction double in 2008
The number of repossessed homes being sent to auction has doubled in the past year, the...

Estate agent declares second profit warning
Estate agent Savills has issued its second property warning in the past quarter, although...

17 2008
Asking prices showing no signs of slowing in fall
Recent research from Rightmove has suggested that asking prices are showing no signs of...

Protection suggested for buy-to-letters
The National Landlord's Association (NLA) has spoken out about the current threats facing...

Housing market could see upturn in 2010
The housing market in the next 12 months has been described as unpredictable, but a...

16 2008
Government increases drive for mortgage buying
Home loans for first-time buyers could once again be made more affordable thanks to...

House prices to drop 15% in 2009
One of the more conservative estimates of how far house price values will fall in 2009 has...

Young professionals renting more than ever
The Trade Unions' Congress (TUC) has recently published a report which found that young...

15 2008
Canary Wharf experiencing selling rush
The number of apartments for sale in Tower Hamlets, the London borough home to Canary...

12 2008
Mixed predictions for 2009
A Times report has suggested that the coming year could see the housing market either...

Mortgage customers to save billions
The recent Bank of England base rate cuts mean that by next Christmas the three million...

11 2008
Rics: Descent in house sales not slowing
The number of homes sold has fallen once again this month after last month's record drop,...

Banks 'fuelling sharp price falls'
Banks insistent on selling repossessed homes at bargain prices through auctions are...

Rental property inspires overnight queuing
Students in Oxford have been forced into queuing through the night in order to secure a...

10 2008
Landlords warned about withholding deposits
Landlords have been warned that if they deem it necessary to withhold deposits from a...

Homeowners struggle to meet mortgage payments
Over a million homeowners are struggling to pay their monthly mortgage payments, according...

Mortgage lending down as mortgage deadlock continues
Mortgage lending continues to fall in the UK, with the year-on-year total for October over...

09 2008
House prices draw buyers into the market
For the first time in two years, home buyers are beginning to return to the housing market...

08 2008
House prices fall fastest in 25 years
House prices across the country dropped further in the past 12 months than they have done...

JLL predicts 2011 house price turnaround
Recent research from estate agent Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has added more confidence to...

Times revisits barometer
The Times has revisited its property barometer introduced this year to assess the current...

05 2008
MPC reduces rates once more
The Bank of England has announced that the base rate of interest has again been cut by a...

House builders themselves reducing prices
House builder Bellway has spoken out against fellow house builders which have been too...

Taking risks with buying could put owners in front
A study has found that businesses which purchase other companies during economic downturns...

04 2008
Mayfair home falls down in credit crunch
A £20 million London property has become the latest victim in the ongoing financial...

House prices have 'no reason' to stabilise soon
The idea held by many that Britain's house prices will steady as a result of the...

Which? publishes help for 'accidental landlords'
Consumer organisation Which? has created a book to aid landlords in the management of...

03 2008
Private landlords 'should be encouraged'
The private rental sector should be supported and expanded, and buy-to-let investors and...

Annual price drop reaches 8.1%
A relatively modest annual price drop has been recorded by Hometrack this month, as it...

2009 lending will become scarce
Maintaining even the low rate of mortgage lending seen in 2008 next year will be a...

02 2008
Rental investment remains strong in north-east
Investment in rental properties has remained sustained in the north-east despite the...

Properties in the capital take 7.5% dive
Top properties in London are falling at record levels, it has been confirmed, with...

Pensioners could increase falls in property prices
Britain is currently home to 1.7 million pensioners who are relying on the value of their...

01 2008
BBA and Rics agree that housing market will not improve for months
The British Bankers Association (BBA) has suggested that house prices are unlikely to...

House price declines 'slowing but not finished'
Recent slowdowns in the speed at which house prices are declining in value are not a sign...

Multi-million pound property now half price
The owner of a four-storey town house in St John's Wood, London, has taken 40 per cent off...