UK Property News Archive

  • Slump visable for estate agent signs Times 7 May 2008 For those who, like me, use estate agents’ boards as an informal indicator of what is going on in the market, the downturn is visible on the streets. Read more
  • Estate agents shut 150 branches a week Telegraph 6 May 2008 Estate agencies are closing branches at the rate of 150 a week, with 4,000 job losses since the start of the year. Read more
  • There is a tweet in store Telegraph 6 May 2008 Eco friendly house turns garden into a bird reserve. Read more
  • Property prices decline, construction contracts Bloomberg 2 May 2008 May 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. house prices posted the first annual decline since 1996 in April as mortgage lending dried up and the construction industry shrank the most in almost a decade, industry reports showed. Read more
  • New-build market collapses Guardian 2 May 2008 Reservations of newbuild houses and flats have collapsed by two-thirds this spring due to the lack of mortgage availability, according to confidential industry data. Read more
  • Demolition plan for Brighton homes Argus 1 May 2008 Developers are planning to tear down six family houses and build a luxury care home. Read more
  • First year on year fall since 1996 Guardian 30 April 2008 House prices have fallen by 1% over the past 12 months, the first year-on-year fall since March 1996, the UK's largest building society said today. Read more
  • Inside track go into administration Guardian 29 April 2008 Inside Track, the company that spearheaded the buy-to-let investment boom, is to go into administration early this morning. Read more
  • Property Market: First Person Telegraph 29 April 2008 Everybody's claiming poverty nowadays, which is annoying for those of us who were there years ago, leading the fashion. Suddenly we don't look so cutting edge in our charity-shop outfits, and our moving tales of hardship are drowned out in the general chorus. Read more
  • Anston house tree felling to go to court Alex Coxall 29 April 2008 Brighton and Hove council have announced that they will be persuing the prosecution of Bridgetown Properties after their alleged felling of protected trees during the Anston House redevelopment. Read more