Telegraph: Descent from the property plateau The property boom is over - official. Well, perhaps not quite, since nobody rings a bell to signal the top of the market, but enough indications have accumulated in recent weeks to suggest that our enthusiasm to chase house prices ever higher is cooling at last.
Times Online - Mortgage data spell end of house price boom: THE number of new home loans has suffered its largest fall for a decade in the strongest sign yet that Britain’s property boom is coming to an end.
Times Online - Another false dusk for the property boom?
The City has sneered at reports of a house price slowdown. The latest indication of a downturn cannot be so comfortably dismissed
Reuters: Mortgage approvals drop
The number of new loans approved for house purchase has plunged , the British Bankers Association says, in a sign demand for housing is cooling.
BBC NEWS: US house sales fall in July
The number of non-new houses sold in the US fell last month for only the second time this year, but the average price of a house rose to a new high.
BBC NEWS: US house sales fall in July
The number of non-new houses sold in the US fell last month for only the second time this year, but the average price of a house rose to a new high.
BBC NEWS:Buy-to-let pitfalls
: Buy-to-let investments have become increasingly popular in recent years, but some observers warn that the market is on the wane. A mortgage expert outlines the possible drawbacks of buy-to-let and gives some handy investment hints.
Headline news from Sky News - Landlords selling up
More landlords are selling off their properties, as the rises in the interest rate and worries about the housing market create uncertainty in the buy-to-let sector.
This is Money: Are you ready for negative equity? Negative equity cost Jennifer Blackwood her inheritance and left her the owner of a flat that she could not sell for six years. She became a homeowner at the age of 23 in 1988, buying a one-bedroom flat in Brixton, south London, for £65,000.
Times Property:Tide turns against sellers as house prices fall again NOT only are house prices falling but there are more sellers than buyers, according to figures released today, suggesting that Britain has become a buyers’ market.
ThisisLondon: Buyers are in control as house prices drop
Buyers have taken control of London's property market, as prices begin to fall across the capital, a report says today.
Sky News: PROPERTY PRICES FALL House prices fell for the second month running during August. The figures appear to show that the market is continuing to feel the effects of rising interest rates.
'Tax super-rich at 50%' proposal
The super-rich should be hit with a 50% inheritance tax to allow cuts for the middle classes, a think tank has said.
