Retirement home landlords are accused of profiteering

Pensioners are fighting back and lobbying Parliament with concerns over excessive charges

Cheap cash may create another property bubble

Great swaths of the world's residential market - outside Britain - are not just in full recovery mode, they are booming

The Politics of the X-Factor

Love it or hate it, the show is the cornerstone of ITV's weekend, despite numerous controversies behind the scenes

Passing clouds could make buyers pause

Savills, the estate agency, is forecasting an average decline of 6.6 per cent in house prices by mid-summer

Northern Rock ‘bad bank’ will trap borrowers

Customers transferred to the bad bank will be unable to remortgage elsewhere

Taylor Wimpey runs out of homes until next year

As homebuyers chase fewer properties on the market, the housebuilder says it has no more completed stock left this year

Qatari deal could turn US Embassy into hotel

The US State Department will sell the Chancery building, home to the US Embassy for almost half a century, to Qatari Diar

How to beat the banking giants

Customers are likely to get a raw deal from Britain’s state-backed banks for years to come as as Europe’s net tightens

Halifax rate row: do you stay or do you go?

Customers of the taxpayer-backed bank are up in arms over dismal rates on current accounts and poor practice on mortgages

Angry leaseholders count mounting cost of repairs

Owners of former council flats face unfair charges which are forcing some to consider selling

Lenders threaten action over repossessions

Offer by "no win, no fee" solicitors to investigate accuracy of valuations poses threat to surveyors' insurance cover

Seasonal slump and low stock hits the market

Data from Nationwide shows that, despite a slowing monthly rate of increase, house prices are continuing to go up

Tories to hand power on housing to communities

A parish or village could bypass the local authority planning committee and rubber-stamp a local development project

Land Securities halts softer retail rents

Britain’s biggest property developer says it will no longer offer rental deals amid signs of increasing demand for space

Barclays swallows Standard Life Bank for £226m

Although the bank moved into profit six years ago, the aggregate net losses since its launch amount to £45 million

Cash investors revive buy-to-let market

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reports an increase in demand for houses, rather than flats, as an investment

City bonuses head for the housing market

Agents say that prices of London properties are about to be boosted as buyers seek a home for predicted payouts of £6bn

British housing goes into hibernation

Estate agents report that property listings have slipped in October as homeowners put off moving until after Christmas

New home-loan approvals are inching up

Low remortgage levels limit overall lending and a real upturn will depend on 'more properties coming on to the market'