When Angela Merkel became Germany's first woman chancellor last year, her first task was to persuade people that the economy could again return to good health.
Home Information Packs (Hips) will have a negative impact on the housing market, according to 84 per cent of building...
While perhaps not the obvious choice for the average property investor, residential farmland in the UK is proving exc...
With sales slumping and inventories on the rise experts say getting your property sold depends on pricing it correctly. One tool sellers can fall back on when the market is shifting is a professional appraisal.
More new homeowners aren't repaying their bank on time. The rise in delinquency rates is likely due to soaring housing prices and aggressive lending last year, recent studies find.
Buying a property overseas is more popular than ever, with increasing numbers of people following their dream of owning a holiday home, or a property abroad, as part of their short-term or long-term investment plans.
Investing in an overseas property certainly has its pitfalls and spending money unwisely can be extremely damaging. B...
With property investment television programmes dominating the listings, it is inevitable that real estate is beginnin...
New York developer Douglas Durst is hoping to succeed where ice-cream magnate Tom Carvel failed to build a golfing community in the Catskills more than 30 years ago. But he too is having trouble.
A latte with your loan? More lenders are trying to capture customers' attention by revamping their buildings to look more like coffeehouses and retail boutiques.
Investors are currently spoilt for choice when it comes to purchasing an investment property abroad, but it would see...
Buy-to-let investors may well be scouring the north of England as they plot their investment strategies this summer, ...
New mortgage applications for home purchases rose 2.4% in the week ending May 12, according to the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association released Wednesday. Refinance applications increased 8.4 percent. Interest rates rose for 30-year Fixed Rate Mortgages (FRMs), 15-year FRMs and 1-year Adjustable Rate Mortgages (ARMs). Average Rates: 30-year FRM:
Considering relocating to another state for work or retirement? It pays to consider how state levies will affect your income -- and your heirs.
Banks report continuing signs of dwindling interest from borrowers in recent months, but the pace of the slowdown appears to have eased.
A Commerce Department report issued today shows housing starts fell 7.4% from March to April. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,849,000 units was down 11.1% from one year ago. Permits were down 5.4% from last month and 8.0% from April 2005 at a seasonally adjusted 1.984,000. IceRocket Tags: housing starts, construction spending, housing market NEW
The European focus is very much on Bulgaria at the moment and few will be watching more intently than those in the property investment business.
When Angela Merkel became Germany's first woman chancellor last year, her first task was to persuade people t...
Returns on buy-to-let investment have been extremely encouraging so far in 2006 and the sector is unsurprisingly beco...
<P>The Chancellor forbade buying holiday homes within pensions at the end of 2005, but solicitors Sykes...
In this hot housing market, buyers claim they were kept out of condominium deals by companies behind two developments that were halted after deposits were accepted from potential homeowners.
A small cadre of professionals and passionate amateurs are on a mission to identify and protect houses that were purchased through catalogs from 1908 to 1940.
Although the nation's housing market is slowing many metro regions are continuing to showing double-digit annual gains, the National Association of Realtors says.
Builder confidence in the housing market declined in May according to the National Association of Homebuilders - Wells Fargo Housing Market Index released Monday. The index dropped six points to 45, the lowest reading since mid-1995. The Association cited rising mortgage rates, deepening affordability issues and the retreat of investors/speculators from the marketplace
The average house price in the UK is now almostŁ210,000 after a two per cent rise in the last month.It represen...
