Mortgage lending in UK remains still in historical low levels despite recent increases.

After dropping 1.9% in July, house prices in the United Kingdom are now falling at the fastest rate since 1990, according to Nationwide Building Society.

The increase in total net lending to individuals in December (£9.1 billion) was below the increase in November and the previous six-month average , according to figures from the Bank of England (BoE).

Thames Gateway Forum, London 30th November 2007 – A new report estimates that by 2016, commercial property development in London Thames Gateway could reach 5.4m sq ft of office space, 4.3m sq ft of industrial space and 2.15m sq ft of retail space with the addition of 30,000 new homes. This latest Jones Lang LaSalle report commissioned by London Thames Gateway Development Corporation highlights the investment potential in the UK’s most significant regeneration location.

AVERAGE House Prices are 8 times average salaries in Merseyside according to a new report by the National Housing Federation.

One of Britain's favourite cartoonists is to be the subject of a major online archive in a £1m digitisation project at the University of Kent's British Cartoon Archive. Giles, who worked for the Daily Express and Sunday Express from 1943 to 1991, is recognised as having had considerable influence on the style of British social and political cartooning.

Property outlook is great and the real estate tourism is booming in Dominican Republic, says the forecast from the Dominican Association of Real Estate Tourism Companies (ADETI).

A recent property market survey by Savills UK Housing Survey shows a market full of unhappy householders wanting bigger and better homes, but who are constrained by high prices and lack of supply.