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Property news : Brown pleases property industry with green signal for REITs
LONDON - Chancellor Gordon Brown has announced that he will move legislation to allow Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) next year. Property firms were vocal in demanding that Brown follow the e...
Property news : Gordon Brown?s bitter SIPP
LONDON - Chancellor Gordon Brown produced a surprising U-turn on the SIPPs provisions by scrapping them altogether claiming that there was plenty of scope for misuse of the same. This means that pe...
Property news : Brown launches shared-equity scheme for first-time buyers
LONDON - In an effort to help first-time buyers get on to the housing ladder, Chancellor Gordon Brown has unveiled a novel shared-equity scheme that involves the lender, the buyer and the Government.
Property news : Average price of a home is £170,086: Halifax
LONDON - The UK?s biggest mortgage lender Halifax has said in its latest house price survey report that the house price inflation rose to 4.5 percent in the three months ending November. This repre...
Property news : Winter Olympics bid spurs rise in Bulgarian property prices
The interest shown by Bulgaria in hosting the Winter Olympics in 2014 has spurred fresh interest in the property market in that country. Bulgarian Property Developments (BDP) has also thrown its ha...