New deal to bring property investors and struggling landlords together – news for property investors

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Buy-to-let landlords in the UK are being offered an escape plan from investments if they are struggling to cover their mortgage repayments.
It comes after the latest Financial Stability Report from the Bank of England highlighted the threat to buy-to-let investors and suggested [...]

Major property developments being halted across the UK – news for property investors

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Construction on mixed and retail developments are being stopped across the UK as the credit crunch curbs lending and banks pull loans.
An £80 million mixed development project in Cumbria, North West England, is one of the latest casualties of the credit crunch [...]

Estate Agents Demand Stamp Duty Cut in UK – news for property investors

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The National Association of Estate Agents is urging the UK Government to use its Pre Budget Report to help thousands of young people currently priced out of the property market.
The organisation, which is the UK’s leading professional body for estate agency personnel [...]

UK House Sales Hit Hard – news for property investors

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LONDON – The real estate crisis continues to rattle British companies, as latest figures show home sales declined to the lowest level in at least three decades. Real estate agents and surveyors sold an average of 10.9 homes only in the quarter [...]

‘Dry-powder’ investing will pick up UK commercial bargains for property fund

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LaSalle Investment Management is raising a £400m fund to pick up bargain property in the UK market where some assets are now being sold at 20-30% discounts to their value.
The fund management arm of Jones Lang La Salle is currently raising a [...]

Bank of England rate cut unlikely to impact heavily on property market – news for property investors

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The Banks of England today slashed the UK base rate by a massive 1.5% which has been generally welcomed by the property industry as a positive move.
But analysts are warning that the cut from 4.5% to 3% will really only help the [...]

Bank of England rate cut unlikely to impact heavily on property market

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The Banks of England today slashed the UK base rate by a massive 1.5% which has been generally welcomed by the property industry as a positive move.
But analysts are warning that the cut from 4.5% to 3% will really only help the [...]

UK property industry survey shows collapse in confidence – news for property investors

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A survey of UK property investors and professionals shows a massive collapse in confidence across the sector in the last two years.
Confidence in the residential property sector has crashed from 86% two years ago to just 7% now. And in the commercial [...]

Knight Frank Report on the UK Property Market for 2008-2009 – news for property investors

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Key Highlights:
UK residential prices will fall 30% from their peak, taking values back to September 2003 levels
Sales volumes will hit a low point in late 2008, at only around 30% of their long term average
Sales volumes will recover to reach 60% of [...]

More first time buyers able to buy UK property – news for property investors

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Falling house prices in the UK have led to a range of bargain properties and first buyers who can obtain finance are seizing the opportunity to get on then first rung of the housing ladder, according to experts.
In Scotland property professionals now [...]