Forex Trading

Asking price: 495,000
Agent: Essex Countryside, 01702 471 188
Where: Leigh-on-Sea, just down the coast from Southend. Train services to the City and good road access to the M11 and M25.
What you get: A new two-bedroom apartment covering the top floor. Large living room with curved picture windows, leading to a 50ft-wide balcony with […]

A housing market slowdown coupled with the rising cost of mortgages makes fertile ground for the growth of schemes packaged as a solution for homeowners in dire financial straits.
Among these is the “sale and rent back” agreement, where a property is purchased from a financially flailing homeowner and rented back out to them.
The […]

WASHINGTON - The National Association of Realtors on Wednesday said it expects the national median price for existing homes to drop this year for the first time since the trade group began keeping records in the late 1960s.
The group also lowered its 2007 sales forecast for new and existing homes. Tighter lending standards and the […]

Belfast is perhaps the most rapidly changing city in the UK. Peace has brought prosperity, and ambitious regeneration schemes are changing the image unrecognisably from the scarred city of The Troubles. And with transformation comes a house-price boom.
Average purchase prices in the city have risen from 99,000 to 221,000 in just five years, making […]

A woman high-flyer in the City yesterday lost a landmark sex discrimination claim at the Court of Appeal but vowed to take her case to the House of Lords.
Andrea Madarassy first lodged her 1 million claim for unfair dismissal, sex discrimination and victimisation in December 2001, a month after losing her job at the […]

Millions of homeowners are certainly going to feel the pinch when their cheap fixed-rate mortgages come to an end over the coming months. With interest rates now some 1.25 percentage points higher than they were when people took out fixed-rate mortgages two years ago, borrowers will suddenly find themselves being forced to pay as much […]