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Property prices are seeing a resurgence and are now expected to rise an average 15% this year or at least 10% in the capital, suggests the latest house price update from Nationwide.

When MIRAS was abolished in April 2000, many homeowners lamented the average tax relief loss of around £130 a year.

Private residential housing stock was valued to be worth around £3 trillion in 2003, which is almost double the value of property from five years ago, according to a study by Halifax.

New disputes have erupted between clients and IFA firms over endowment mortgage mis-selling compensation calculations, suggests the Financial Ombudsman service.

A large number of UK consumers are dissatisfied with the service they received from their estate agents as one-quarter of recent sellers say they received poor value for money, delays in the sale and inadequate communication, according to a report by...

Eight out of ten homeowners will use the value of their property to boost their pension, according to a survey by Birmingham Midshires.

Residential buy-to-let landlords on average are only carrying 41% loan-to-value gearing a survey commissioned by Paragon Mortgages suggests.

Landowners could be faced with yet another tax if the government decides to follow the recommendations set out in the Barker report published this morning.

The wider UK economy is threatened unless the housing market is taken by the scruff of the neck and improvements to government policies and supply are implemented says Kate Barker in her review just published by the Treasury.