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A new report reveals the latest trends  in UK lending and borrowing, compiled by lending software company Lenvi. The most notable trends include...

John Charcol’s` new owners say they will grow the adviser base and diversify and develop the product offering of the high-profile...

Mortgage advisers Larry Barreto and Tassib Hussain have been sentenced for fraud offences following a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct...

The Financial Conduct Authority is working with 12 lenders and administrators to probe the interest-only mortgage market. The number of IO and...

Contributors to a quarterly specialist finance publication have reported a 15.3 per cent increase in bridging loan transactions, totalling £191m, during...

Landlords in the UK are paying 40 per cent more mortgage interest than in August 2022, which equates to an extra...

The number of interest-only (750,000) and part-interest-only (245,000) mortgages has halved since 2015, new Financial Conduct Authority analysis has found.  The fall...

Plans to ban cold calls for financial products are the subject of a consultation marking the next step in delivering the...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association wants the government to give additional support to landlords It says the cumulative effects of regulatory and...

SHW has announced that it has promoted two of its Directors to Partner level, taking its Partner total to 25. Gemma Quinn...

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

Over the weekend, Nat Daniels - CEO of Angels Media, the founder of the Today sites - penned this piece in...

Introducer Today returns with a bumper mortgage roundup, this time featuring the latest industry views on mortgage approvals, new and extended...

A leading specialist in mortgage solutions, Henry Dannell, revealed that the number of homes owned with a mortgage or loan across the...

The time it takes to sell a home across UK cities has hit a three-year high, according to Zoopla. Its September UK...

The number of property purchases supported by Help to Buy ISAs increased by 8% this year, rising from 82,940 in 2017/18...

Bridging loan interest rates fell to the lowest level in Q1 2019, according to the latest data from Bridging Trends. It found...

Who are you? I’m the Director of Sales for both the well-known industry leading Today publications and The ValPal Network. Leading publications: Estate Agent Today,...

HLPartnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) have announced that 360’s suite of marketing modules – normally paid for extras –...

The number of landlords looking to remortgage has now reached an all-time high, according to a survey by Paragon. Its Financial Adviser...

The proportion of homeowners selling up increased in May, as sellers tried to secure offers before the housing market’s typical summer...

Commercial Trust Limited is urging landlords to speak with specialist buy-to-let mortgage broker firms as many are considering remortgaging options once...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has announced the election of a new Chair. Phil Rickards will take up the role from...

The number of first-time buyers and buyers of investment properties has fallen in the last two years, My Home Move say. First-time...

The latest property renovation hotspots list revealed that Barking and Dagenham is the top location for an increase in renovation applications...

The annual results published by Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has revealed robust growth in its mortgage lending and savings balances.  In...

Connells Group's mortgage division recorded significant growth in 2016, the firm has reported. The Group recorded a 10% rise in the number...

High-street bank HSBC has appointed Jackie Uhi as its new head of mortgage distribution. Uhi has spent the last six years working...

An announcement has been made by Legal & General Mortgage Club about the extension of its partnership with Ipswich Building Society.  To...

An online mortgage broker has announced that it has received backing from fintech investors all over Europe to the tune of...

Average buy-to-let loans and deposits increased in 2016, new research from The Mortgage Broker Ltd has revealed. This came as a result...

Annual house price growth slowed in October, according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index. It fell from 5.3% in September...

The latest quarterly data analysis from Mortgage Brain shows that the cost of mortgages continued to fall over the past three...

Self-employed borrowers are finding it difficult to get mortgages, according to research by the Nottingham Building Society. The firm's study found that...

New research carried out by Legal & General has revealed that brokers in Scotland are more confident about the future of...

Skipton Building Society has removed its maximum loan size cap for first-time buyers. It said this follows a 20% increase in UK house...

Buy-to-let investors have started selling off properties as Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown begins to bite. Demand is also likely to fall...

Remortgage lending leapt 48% by value in the year to April to hit £6.4 billion, the largest sum recorded since November...

Paragon Mortgages has almost doubled its buy-to-let lending in just six months. New buy-to-let lending hit £823.6 million for six months to...

Fewer homeowners are remortgaging to increase the size of their loan, with less than a quarter doing so in April. However, the...

Buy-to-let mortgage sales surged by 163% in the year to March as landlords raced to beat the new stamp duty surcharge...

Demand for UK property has dipped for the first time in 12 months in the latest sign of housing market weakness. However,...

Investors remain positive about the prospects for buy-to-let despite the new stamp duty charge and forthcoming crackdown on mortgage tax relief. The latest...

Almost three out of 10 property purchases have fallen through in the past five years, largely due to conveyancers holding up...

The surging remortgaging sector has helped to offset April's seasonal housing market slowdown, new figures show. Total valuations carried out in April rose...

A new report from Halifax has found that delays in getting on to the property ladder could force many people to...

First-time buyer activity grew strongly in March as they fought back against property investors. Total first-time buyer transactions 32,500, the highest monthly...

The supply of rental properties plunged in the run-up to the new stamp duty surcharge on 1 April and further falls are...

The number of landlords planning to buy a new buy-to-let property has dropped by a third since the stamp duty surcharge...

The average amount of equity withdrawn through remortgaging has hit a new high with borrowers taking out £31,887 on average. This is...

March saw a significant slump in buy-to-let activity with sales falling 26.2% compared to February. The fall of £1.04 billion came despite an expected last-minute...

Buy-to-let landlords have announced a new summit as part of their crowdfunding campaign to abolish the Chancellor George Osborne's tax grab. The...

April 19 is UK Mortgage Freedom Day, the date when the average new borrower will have earned enough to pay off...

Single first-time buyers and couples can significantly cut the time it takes to save for a deposit by moving back in...

The number of buy-to-let mortgages available to borrowers has increased significantly due to a surge in deals aimed at limited company borrowers. Average...

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

The last day of March saw record-breaking property completions as investors rushed to beat the beat stamp duty tax hike. UK mover...

Leeds Building Society has eased its interest-only criteria and will now accept sale of property as a repayment strategy up to...

Mortgage rates have fallen to record lows as the prospect of an interest rate hike retreats and product choice continues to...

Lloyds Bank and Halifax are offering customers the chance to speak "face-to-face" with a mortgage adviser by video link. They can talk to...

The cost of the average private tenancy in Greater London is now £1,521 a month, double the £744 average for the...

February saw the second highest monthly total of house purchase approvals since January 2014 as buy-to-let investors raced to meet April's...

The rapid growth of the buy-to-let market during 2015 has come at the expense of first-time buyers, new research shows. Buy-to-let grew...

House purchase values rose 20% in the final quarter of 2015 yet there was also a worrying drop in higher-LTV lending. The...

Gross bridging lending burst through the £3.5 billion barrier in 2015, against £2.42 billion last year. This means the sector grew almost 44%...

Two new sets of figures show house prices continue to power upwards but property experts warn a slowdown could be in sight. The...

The supply of available housing has plunged to a new low while demand from buyers has surged in recent weeks. Housing supply...

Kent Reliance has launched a new mortgage proposition for one-year self-employed professionals. The specialist mortgage lender for intermediaries bolstered its proposition for...

New evidence suggests that only high-earning first-time buyers are able to afford their first properties, leaving the rest behind. The gap between...

Homes priced below £1 million are set to become extinct in Mayfair and the wider West End as prices continue to...

Property experts have welcomed steady growth in private rents as a sign that the buy-to-let market is shrugging off the Government's tax...

Connells Survey & Valuation has announced a new valuations partnership with Precise Mortgages.  The partnership involves Precise outsourcing its residential survey and...

The Brexit referendum is adding to housing market uncertainty which has seen a 2% drop in sales in major UK cities,...

Two-fifths of UK workers earned less than the increase in the average UK home’s value last year, new research shows. House prices...

Almost one in three "millennials" still with live with their families and almost one in 10 say they will never own a...

The ability to buy an average home in England and Wales improved everywhere last year except in the South East. First-time buyers...

Building society mortgage approvals totalled £57.8 billion in 2015, a rise of 10% by value over the year. The mutual sector now...

Time is running out to escape the stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-let properties and second homes and the cost of failure is...

The price of property coming to market has leapt by 2.90% this month pushing the average asking price to within a...

Chancellor George Osborne's stamp duty changes saved homemovers more than £4,500 on average last year, new figures show. The Chancellor cut stamp...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has posted 15% sales growth to make 2015 another record year. It pinned its £46 billion of sales...

The housing market has been given a one-off boost from the surge in buy-to-let lending triggered by April’s tax changes. New figures show that...

Chancellor George Osborne's stamp duty reforms are proving expensive for the Treasury wiping £620 million off its revenues last year, new figures...

Nationwide Building Society has announced the first mortgage completion by its Help to Buy Isa savers. Savers are free to claim the minimum...

First-time buyers staged a fighting comeback in 2015 to make up more than two-fifths of all buyers, new figures show. Last year,...

More than 700 buy-to-let landlords are set to challenge the government's "Alice in Wonderland tax grab" in court. The legal campaign to fight...

New figures show the housing market defying the traditional seasonal slowdown in December as mortgage approvals hit a two-year high. The number of...

The supply of available housing has almost halved in 10 years while the number of buyers has steadily risen. This growing imbalance between...

First-time buyer numbers fell nearly 5% in December as the traditional winter cooling hit the UK property market. Some 26,600 buyers took...

Monthly mortgage approvals soared 24% year-on-year to £12.4 billion in December but brokers deny lending is getting out of control. Across 2015,...

Interest rate cuts following the financial crisis have reduced annual mortgage costs by more than £22 billion, new figures show. The 4.5 percentage...

Lenders shrugged off rumours of a base rate hike and continued to cut mortgage rates at the end of last year. Fixed...

The average UK homeowner made £524 a week from the rising value of their property last year. UK homes made their owners...

Buy-to-let rents rose by 3.4% during 2015 at the fastest pace since 2011, new figures show. The average UK rent is now...

Gross mortgage lending jumped 8% in 2015 to hit a better-than-forecast total of £220.3 billion. Lending in December totalled £19.9 billion, up 23% on...

Market confidence among intermediaries is at a record high due to rising prices, strong remortgage demand and healthy lender funding. The only...

Average UK rents climbed 3.8% in 2015, twice as fast as wages, new research shows. This was largely down to the housing...

A steep rise in debt since last summer 2015 has put more households under financial pressure, new research shows. Income and saving...

NatWest has been voted the best overall lender for 2015 in the Paradigm Mortgage Services awards. Virgin Money won the award for...

First Complete has started its series of country-wide roadshows which aim to encourage brokers to develop and share best practice. Its “kick...