Buy-to-let mortgage lender Paragon said yesterday it was holding "exploratory" talks with parties interested in buying the company.

Countryside communities risk being destroyed by the huge gulf between property prices and local incomes, a report warns.

Scottish developer Miller Developments has said it is still committed to developing the 7m sq ft Omega business park in Warrington in the Northwest.

House prices could plunge a further 30% in the property market crisis, a key member of the Bank of England has warned.

Shares in Paragon, the buy-to-let mortgage lender, today soared by 16 per cent after it confirmed that it is in takeover talks.

The average rate on two-year fixed rate mortgages has fallen below seven per cent, bringing a modicum of respite to cash-strapped borrowers.

UK pensioners are failing to budget for life in retirement

Apropos of not very much, an appealing line from the first chapter of Roy Porter's A Social History of London (1994), as he discusses London's various religious foundations:

First-time buyers with their sights set on the West Yorkshire market are being offered a property-ladder 'lifeline' by one developer.

One of the UK's biggest lenders announced yesterday it was cutting its mortgage rates for the second time in two weeks, following a fall in funding costs.