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High interest rates are worsening the affordability issues at play in the housing market, the Halifax admits. It says that downward pressure...

Throughout the years the government has pledged to deliver new homes to make more affordable properties available to the public.  New build-...

The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...

2021 proved to be one of the most hectic years to buy and sell a home. We witnessed prices soaring to...

Savings made during lockdown have allowed some borrowers to reduce their debt commitments, with a record £17.6 billion of mortgages repaid...

The total value of new mortgages set to be handed out in the coming months reached its highest level since 2007...

Equity release advisory firm Key has strengthened its estate planning team with the hire of Andrew Parkinson as head of sales...

Interest-only mortgages comprised 20% of new business introduced in Q2 2019, down from 28% is Q2 2007 but significantly higher than...

Over-55s now make up nearly 200,000 owner occupier housing transactions in England each year, according to the latest study from the...

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) has announced the launch of its Base Rate Hub for its advisers following the recent base rate...

The Association of Short Term Lenders has announced the first two speakers - Lorna O’Brien of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

The mortgage market will reach its highest level of gross lending since the financial crisis during 2017, the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders...

The number of properties available to buy through estate agents in March was the lowest level recorded for the third month...

Rob Lankey has been appointed Interim CEO of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB). The Interim CEO will take over...

A new report from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has shown that more mortgages were handed to first-time buyers in...

Data published this week by the Resolution Foundation confirms the continuation of the downward trend in home ownership in the UK.  Since 2003...

Back in 1980 I took out my first mortgage to buy a flat in Birmingham. The flat was very affordable and...

Barclays Bank has this week introduced a new 100% loan-to-value mortgage, aimed at helping struggling first-time buyers get onto the property...

Gross mortgage lending surged in March due to the buy-to-let let boom but transactions now look set to drop by 10,000 a...

House price inflation has hit double digits for the first time in almost two years with prices rising more than £20,000 in the...

Mortgage brokers have suggested that the wheels may be coming off the buy-to-let bandwagon after new figures showed lending to landlords...

The property market has made a bright start to 2016 with the average home coming to market priced £1,500 higher than...

The number of first-time buyers topped 300,000 in 2015 for the second year in a row, new figures show. This is a...

The number of first-time buyers rose by almost a quarter in 2015 despite growing fears that they are being squeezed out...

The typical home buyer approximately £4,500 better-off due to last year’s stamp duty changes. Chancellor George Osborne reformed the “slab system” of...

There is further evidence of a slowdown at the top of the market as the pace of house price growth in...

Last month was the strongest September for home sales since 2007 as the property market enjoyed an Indian summer. The growth was largely...

First-time buyers enjoy their strongest summer on record as sales picked up 25% in the aftermath of the general election. There were...

An award-winning mortgage broker who set out to build a £1 million family home has escaped immediate imprisonment after admitting fraud...

The number of first-time buyer sales rose nearly 5% in July to hit the highest figure since the recession. There were 29,700...

The property market is enjoying its strongest August since the financial crisis with a far lower seasonal fall in prices than usual. Prices fell just...

Last month was the strongest July for home sales since 2007 with a rise of 13% on June to 90,000. This is the first time...

The number of home movers has fallen sharply over the past 12 months and is still far lower than before the financial crisis. But the...

House prices in England and Wales hit a post-crisis high in June with the average price rising to £181,619. That finally tops...

The Treasury has recently proposed that a new type of Isa will be launched that’s dedicated solely to peer-to-peer funding. This is...

House price growth in the UK's leading cities is set to hit 10% this year as the market recovery continues. The Hometrack UK...

The Bank of England is facing criticism for recent comments which warned of the dangers to the UK economy of the...

The volume of residential and buy-to-let mortgage lending in May reached its second highest level in eight years, new analysis has...

The number of home loans available to first-time property buyers has risen to its highest level since before the start of...

First-time buyers accounted for nearly half of all mortgage-financed house purchases in the first half of this year. New figures from Halifax show they...

Brokers have welcomed new official figures showing that house prices in England and Wales are within a whisker of their all-time high. House...

Scotland has voted to stay in the union – at least for now – and one question that investors will have...