The proportion of first-time buyers expecting to enter the property market in the next 12 months has fallen for the third consecutive quarter to just 25.8%, shows the first Rightmove Consumer Confidence Survey of 2010.

Nationwide for Intermediaries has announced that from tomorrow it will no longer use its income multiplier tool as part of its assessment of a borrower’s affordability.

When you think of the past damage done to the UK economy by sub-prime lending in America, this talks about what’s yet to happen in the US through 2010 and 2011 – which MUST have an impact here, especially on our Banks and mortgage lending policies.

PROPERTY prices in parts of Boscombe are now outstripping those in Bournemouth town centre, new research has revealed.

The amount of money banks and building societies are willing to lend to home owners is being based on future interest rate rises for the first time, it can be disclosed.

The country’s sixth largest house builder Redrow, says a chronic shortage of mortgage availability and down valuations are stopping new homes from being built.

Country house prices in the UK have risen for the first time since the beginning of the property downturn with values up 2% in the three months to the end of September, the latest research shows.

UK house prices have finally bottomed out but a return to growth will be slow and steady as supply gradually increases, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday.

A third of people in the UK would be willing to pay more for a property where part of the energy supply comes from renewable resources such as wind, solar or hydropower, according to a new study.

The Home Information Pack (HIP) is compulsory for most homes on the market in England and Wales and you normally can’t market a property without one.