Finance
Buying a house no problem if you've got the cash
There has been a huge rise in the proportion of home buyers paying for their new homes in cash.
What is happening in the UK property market
In April, the year-on-year increase in house prices returned to double figures for the first time since June 2007.
Latest Land Registry figures show property prices fall
Nationwide forecasted growth and Land Registry drop so who is right?
One million families borrow on credit cards to cover housing costs
At least one million families have resorted to using credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent during the past year.
Allsop Residential's £50m Christmas Sale brings its 2009 to £325m
Allsop's final two day last auction brought some Christmas cheer to the market.
Nationwide Building Society has introduced a mortgage allowing borrowers to take loans worth 125% of the value of the home they are buying.
LIBOR drops to below 1.3 per cent
So why are we not seeing current buy-to-let mortgages at a fraction of the cost of what they were last year?