property

Investment grade corporate bonds and gilts popular

Just 26% plan to downsize

Amid property fund suspensions last week

Follows moves by various other property funds

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

An adviser has told how he was left suffering clinical depression and reliant on anti-depressants after he fell for a £50m scam City watchdogs repeatedly flouted warnings to shut down.

The regulator has frozen the assets of a property fund that it suspects is an elaborate scam.

Aviva Investors expect another year of double-digit returns from property in 2015, with returns for this year tipped to exceed 20%.

Sector report: UK commercial property - treading a very fine line

Homebuyers in Scotland purchasing property worth over £250,000 will face a soaring tax bill from April next year as Stamp Duty is abolished in favour of a new levy called the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.