Real Estate
Property: Recovery underway for UK offices, but for some centres the return to growth will be slow
King Sturge is releasing the 10th edition of its annual UK Office Property Markets report. The survey covers 20 key UK locations, providing a review of the past year’s activity and predictions for each regional market. In the report King Sturge’s in-house Research team provides city-specific data for office rents and take-up together with investment [...]
Housing fortunes falter in February
(FT) - House price indices this week from the nation’s largest mortgage lenders showed in February the first fall since last summer, raising questions of the housing recovery.
The Halifax suggested that the drop was a unique outcome reflecting harsh weather , the end of a fav-our-able stamp duty regime and an [...]
Millions of homeowners are offered 25-year ‘green’ loans
(THE SCOTSMAN) - HOMEOWNERS will be able to take out “green loans” to pay for energy efficiency improvements such as insulation and double glazing under new government plans.
The scheme, announced yesterday, would mean the loans could be paid back through savings on utility bills.
The Pay As You Save (PAYS) programme [...]
Houses with low energy efficiency will lose value in government plans
(TIMES ONLINE) - Houses with low energy efficiency will lose value under government plans to intervene in the property market to help cut greenhouse gas emissions from homes by a third by 2020.
Estate agents will be given guidance telling them to take more notice of energy efficiency when deciding [...]
House price slide could be start of longer downturn
(TIMESONLINE) - The UK’s largest building society said a second downturn in house prices may be on its way, after it recorded the first fall in average values for 10 months.
The average house price fell 1% to £161,320 in January, according to the Nationwide building society house prices index [...]
Sheer Fashion In The Home From Curtains Wizard
Curtains Wizard announce the hot fabric for this summer, the use of cool sheer either on its own or layered with other textured fabrics.
(PRWEB) February 28, 2010 — The hot fabric for this summer is the use of cool sheer either on its own or layered with other textured fabrics. It has taken the catwalk [...]
How to beat the big bank squeeze
(TIMESONLINE) - The state-backed banks are squeezing retail customers to help ease their path to recovery.
Royal Bank of Scotland, 84%-owned by the taxpayer, has been accused of leaning on mortgage customers through higher margins on lending, while Lloyds has boosted returns from current accounts with higher charges.
Announcing its annual [...]
United Law Group Helps Prominent Podiatrist Reduce Mortgage by $3,347 Monthly and Save $925 Monthly on the Loan Held By Her Disabled Parents
United Law Group clients continue to benefit from the firm’s ongoing litigation efforts. Dr. Vanessa Taylor of Norco received a permanent loan modification that reduced the rate from 9.5% to 4.98% for her disabled, aged parents who found themselves in a predatory loan. This will save the couple $288,600 over the 26-year life of the [...]
Skipton defends mortgage rate increase
(BBC) - Skipton Building Society has denied wrongdoing after breaking a pledge not to raise mortgage rates to more than 3% above the Bank of England base rate.
The North Yorkshire-based mutual could face a legal challenge from borrowers after breaking its ceiling on its standard variable rate (SVR).
About 64,000 customers will [...]
Mortage lending slump prediction comes true as stamp duty returns
(MAIL ONLINE) - Mortgage lending slumped to an eight-and-a-half-year low during January as the housing market suffered a lull following the end of the Government’s stamp duty holiday.
The major banks advanced just £8billion during the month, 26 per cent down on December’s figure and the lowest level since May 2001, according [...]
