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For a number of years now, HM Land Registry (Land Registry) has been one of the most innovative and forward-thinking government...
30 October 2020
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A quarter (23%) of homeowners are worried about renewing their mortgage during the pandemic, according to a poll by broker Willow...
20 October 2020
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A steep drop in recorded crime since the start of the coronavirus lockdown has led to a downward shift in home...
16 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has revealed how brokers are helping consumers worried about their finances during the coronavirus outbreak. David...
10 April 2020
From: Breaking News

Advise Wise Mortgage Club has launched a specialist solicitor panel for its members to refer to regarding their case completion. The firm...
11 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has partnered with Legal & General and Uinsure to launch B&C InstantQuote to its national network of...
04 December 2019
From: Breaking News

For the third consecutive quarter, the most popular use of a bridging loan was to purchase investment property, according to Bridging...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News

The time it takes to sell a home across UK cities has hit a three-year high, according to Zoopla. Its September UK...
31 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Fluent for Advisers has reported an increase in home improvement secured loan requests from introducers. The latest second-charge figures for June from...
24 September 2019
From: Breaking News

Nearly a quarter of UK homes have no home insurance, according to Assurant Intermediary. The insurance company says advisers play a vital...
14 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Over a third of people who purchased their mortgage direct from a lender have no protection policy in place, the latest...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The majority (61%) of current and soon-to-be homeowners in the UK don’t fully review their mortgage agreement before signing it, and...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Knight Frank Finance has launched a later life finance team, making it the first major player in the property sector to...
10 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Thousands of borrowers could be missing out on a better mortgage deal by not speaking to an adviser, research from Legal...
14 June 2019
From: Breaking News

Nearly three quarters (71%) of the UK’s growing self-employed population believe their employment status makes it harder to get a mortgage,...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News

New research by Kensington Mortgages has revealed that interest-only mortgages are a significant problem in the financial system. The specialist mortgage lender...
25 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Trussle, the UK’s first online mortgage broker, is campaigning for fairer mortgages. The company has launched a manifesto which seeks to champion...
23 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Over-55s now make up nearly 200,000 owner occupier housing transactions in England each year, according to the latest study from the...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

LendInvest has secured funding of up to £200 million from HSBC UK to bring further capital to its platform. With this new...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

One in six mortgage holders have been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? Mortgage...
30 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Nearly a third (32%) of current mortgage holders, which equates to approximately 4 million people, may have to re-evaluate their finances...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Almost half of homeowners are making overpayments on their mortgages, according to new research from Which? Mortgage Advisers. Those aged 18-24 led...
08 January 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Moneyfacts UK found the average two-year fixed rate at max 95% loan-to-value (LTV) is at a record low, while...
14 December 2018
From: Breaking News

A fifth of current mortgage holders believe they will still be paying off their mortgage beyond the age of 65 –...
28 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Since the Brexit vote, house prices have increased across the UK by 9.3%, with market uncertainty surrounding the exit being blamed...
20 November 2018
From: Breaking News

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market in October, according to fresh research from e.surv. Its latest...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News

First-time buyers and others with small deposits took a greater share of the market last month than in August, according to...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

As many as one in three UK homeowners don’t know what mortgage rate they are on, potentially costing them thousands of...
17 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Tougher lending rules are surfacing after the expansion of the Bank of Mum and Dad (BOMAD) into one of the UK’s...
12 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Pepper Money has finalised the terms to acquire 100% of the second charge lender, Optimum Credit Ltd. The purchase will see Pepper...
10 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Accord Mortgages has announced a range of new or enhanced initiatives designed to support brokers with new-build cases. This includes a range...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the launch of its new Help to Buy range which will cover the England and London schemes. Available...
03 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Homeowners are ageing at a faster rate than the UK population as developments in post-retirement lending put a strain on the...
30 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the addition of nine new lenders to the Mortgage Club panel. Chorley Building Society, Newbury...
03 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Across the UK adults are signing away the biggest financial contracts of their lives without fully reading or comprehending them, new...
04 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The proportion of homeowners selling up increased in May, as sellers tried to secure offers before the housing market’s typical summer...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Some 81% of UK homeowners who purchased a home in the last year would consider a mortgage broker if they were...
16 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A growing group of over-55s are using lifetime mortgages to fund property moves to more expensive homes, a study from OneFamily...
10 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Demand for five-year fixed rate remortgages has fallen to the lowest level since July 2017, according to conveyancing service provider LMS. The...
27 April 2018
From: Breaking News

The first digital mortgage was entered into the Land Register by Enact Conveyancing and Coventry Building Society for a house in...
16 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Metro Bank has announced that from April 5 it will expand its mortgage business into Scotland both direct and via brokers. Scottish...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society and Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) have launched an exclusive product for homeowners who want to pay...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Remortgaging has reached a record high, rising to 39% of all mortgages, according to The Mortgage Hut. The number of remortgages has...
05 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Nationwide is the latest building society to join the Equity Release Council (The Council) following its introduction to the lifetime mortgage...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News

One in five British homeowners purchased a property prior to selling their existing home, a new study conducted by CoverBuilder has...
21 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Over half (55%) of UK consumers are unaware that a mortgage broker could offer more product options than a bank or...
14 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Nearly seven in ten (69%) mortgage brokers saw an increasing demand for 35-year mortgages, according to the latest research from the...
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Keystone Property Finance has announced the upgrade of its criteria for portfolio and non-portfolio landlords. The buy-to-let lending brand has increased the...
17 October 2017
From: Breaking News

Yorkshire Building Society is launching a range of two-year mortgages to help first-time buyers (FTBs) take their first steps on the...
12 October 2017
From: Breaking News

New data from mortgage lender, Vida Homeloans, found more first-time buyers are seeking lenders for deals that cater to their needs...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Legal & General Mortgage Club has joined Darlington Building Society to introduce exclusive discount mortgages, aimed at first-time buyers, homeowners or...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Lifetime mortgage lender more 2 life has surpassed £1 billion of lending, along with a substantial total loan book value. According to...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Up to 18% of homeowner’s ready to climb the property ladder find it harder than buying their first home, according to...
05 September 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest property renovation hotspots list revealed that Barking and Dagenham is the top location for an increase in renovation applications...
09 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Bank customers are at risk of paying an extra £400 if they chose not to remortgage after their fixed term deal...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News

Over three quarters (76%) of advisers recommend taking out private surveys when purchasing or remortgaging a property, according to TMA Mortgage...
01 August 2017
From: Breaking News
10 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The latest House Price Sentiment Index (HPSI) from Knight Frank and IHS Markit has revealed that households throughout the UK perceive...
24 February 2017
From: Breaking News

An online mortgage broker has announced that it has received backing from fintech investors all over Europe to the tune of...
03 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Homeowners remortgaged for an average of £15,000 more in 2016 than they did two years ago, with 57% of remortgage cases...
01 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Following the introduction of new lending rules in April 2016, under the Mortgage Market Review (MMR), many banks and building societies...
18 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Saffron For Intermediaries, part of Saffron Building Society, has announced the launch of three new fixed rate deals for homeowners and...
19 October 2016
From: Breaking News

More than 1.6m homeowners have bought home insurance from their mortgage lender and many mistakenly believe they cannot switch for a...
01 June 2016
From: Breaking News

Fewer homeowners are remortgaging to increase the size of their loan, with less than a quarter doing so in April. However, the...
23 May 2016
From: Breaking News

First-time buyers are "increasingly desperate" to buy a place of their own as the housing crisis deepens, new research shows. Today, 73%...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has held interest rates again with a unanimous 9-0 vote yesterday and experts say there is...
15 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Lending to both residential buyers and property investors soared over the last year but experts warn there is a slowdown in...
14 April 2016
From: Breaking News

UK house prices rose 7.6% in the year to February and property experts expect the "unrelenting" growth to continue. This marked a...
13 April 2016
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne's eighth Budget delivered another blow to buy-to-let investors by excluding property from cuts to capital gains tax (CGT) rates. Investors...
17 March 2016
From: Breaking News

More than 150,000 people have become homeowners through the Government’s flagship Help to Buy housing scheme. New official figures show that 80%...
11 March 2016
From: Breaking News

House purchase values rose 20% in the final quarter of 2015 yet there was also a worrying drop in higher-LTV lending. The...
09 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Leeds Building Society is launching the lowest ever 10-year fixed rate mortgage charging just 2.75%. The best buy deal, available from Thursday,...
09 March 2016
From: Breaking News

Almost half of young home movers plan to wait until after the Brexit referendum to complete their property transactions. Most also believe...
07 March 2016
From: Breaking News

New evidence suggests that only high-earning first-time buyers are able to afford their first properties, leaving the rest behind. The gap between...
01 March 2016
From: Breaking News

House prices leapt by 2.5% in January to mark the biggest monthly upswing for 14 years, Land Registry figures show. The average...
29 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The Brexit referendum is adding to housing market uncertainty which has seen a 2% drop in sales in major UK cities,...
26 February 2016
From: Breaking News

UK house prices could drop by 5% if the UK votes to leave the EU in the referendum on 23 June. Prime...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

The North/South divide in house price expectations has now widened to record levels, new figures show. Households in all UK regions perceive...
22 February 2016
From: Breaking News

Property agencies report a surge in demand for London buy-to-let property ahead of the looming surcharge on stamp duty. But some fear...
17 February 2016
From: Breaking News

With the scale of devastation from flooding witnessed recently, anxiety about purchasing a property in a flood risk area is heightened....
16 February 2016
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Fears of an affordability crisis are likely to grow as new figures show property prices increasing at twice the pace of...
11 February 2016
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New figures show the housing market defying the traditional seasonal slowdown in December as mortgage approvals hit a two-year high. The number of...
02 February 2016
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NatWest and RBS have unveiled their plans to help more people get a foot on the capital's property ladder through the...
01 February 2016
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UK house prices leapt by 7.7% in the year to November after rising at the fastest rate for eight months. This compares...
20 January 2016
From: Breaking News

2016 will be a critical year for the property market as we see the impact of the global economic slowdown and...
18 January 2016
From: Breaking News

House prices in England and Wales have risen by nearly £18,000 in the last year, an average rise of nearly £1,500...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News

Britons are unprepared for rising mortgage rates even though nearly three-quarters would see their monthly repayments rise if the base rate...
14 January 2016
From: Breaking News

The average house hunter takes just 53 minutes to decide to buy a home, 15 minutes more than one year ago. Online...
13 January 2016
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The surcharge on stamp duty for investors and second homeowners will spark a mini-boom in property prices, a new survey says. Six out...
06 January 2016
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The average amount of equity withdrawn via remortgaging hit a new record of nearly £37,000 per borrower in November. This is a...
23 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Mortgage brokers are urging borrowers to fix their mortgage repayments in the wake of the US Federal Reserve decision to increase...
18 December 2015
From: Breaking News

House prices are set to soar 50% and rents more than 25% over the next 10 years, new figures suggest. The proportion...
17 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Life is getting easier for first-time buyers as barriers to homeownership fall and government schemes help more climb on the property...
10 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Lenders rejected one in seven homeowners who tried to remortgage in the past two years. One in four of those who could...
09 December 2015
From: Breaking News

One in three mortgage holders have no idea what rate of interest they are paying, new research shows. This is despite growing...
08 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Homeowners aged over 55 are sitting on £90,000 more property wealth than they realise thanks to soaring house prices. This extra housing wealth...
04 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Chancellor George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge could backfire by slashing tax revenues as investors desert the market, experts have warned. Steve Bolton,...
03 December 2015
From: Breaking News

Property market experts have warned that the forthcoming buy-to-let surcharge on stamp duty will trigger a shortlived scramble for property in...
30 November 2015
From: Breaking News

November has seen the smallest seasonal drop in new seller asking prices since 2011, setting the scene for higher prices in...
16 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Half of UK homeowners are now interested in becoming a buy-to-let landlord as returns on rival investments plummet. Stock market volatility is...
11 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Two, three and five-year fixed rate mortgages have plunged to new lows despite speculation of a base rate rise next year. Comparison...
05 November 2015
From: Breaking News

More than half of UK homeowners believe leaving the EU will have an impact on property prices, new research shows. Some 34%...
04 November 2015
From: Breaking News

Equity release has posted the biggest quarterly rise for 11 years as over-55s withdraw a record £5 million of housing wealth...
27 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Nearly half of Britons believe that homeownership is now an unrealistic dream, a new study shows. One in 10 Brits expects to be...
23 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Loss of higher rate tax relief and tighter regulation on buy-to-let could harm tenants more than landlords by constraining the supply of rented...
20 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Just 12% of UK adults believe access to mortgages has improved in the past five years, despite recent moves to open...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Wealthy homeowners are twice as likely to use equity release to treat family and friends, new research shows. As property wealth increases...
14 October 2015
From: Breaking News

HSBC has announced a reduction in a wide range of home loan rates. The bank has cut the cost of a...
02 October 2015
From: Breaking News

Fears that the Bank of England will soon raise the base rate from its all-time low is driving a rise in...
30 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The amount of money locked up in homes owned by the over-65s has grown by almost £17.5 billion in the past...
29 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The Bank of England has ruled out intervention in the UK buy-to-let market despite fears that its growth could pose a...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Potential increases in the Bank of England base rate and knock-on effects on mortgage costs should not worry most homeowners, a...
28 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The British public remains divided over impact of interest rate rise with almost one in three welcoming the prospect. That rises to more...
24 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Brokers have welcomed new figures showing a sharp decline in the number of interest-only loans over the past year. Over the past...
23 September 2015
From: Breaking News

New research suggests that now is the perfect time to remortgage as more products hit the market and rates fall significantly. As...
22 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The price of property coming onto the market has hit a new high after the biggest September rise for 13 years. New...
21 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Metro Bank has launched a brand new portal designed to help intermediaries switch their customers’ mortgage deals online. The portal has been...
18 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Nearly one in five landlords plan to buy more buy-to-let properties despite the looming threat of Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown. New...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News

One in seven homeowners aged 70 and over are still paying off their mortgage, with the average debt a hefty £40,000. New figures...
17 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Homeowners with variable rate mortgages remain dangerously exposed to rising interest rates, new research suggests. Three out of four homeowners on a...
08 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Nearly one million homeowners with interest-only mortgages are a "ticking timebomb" because they have made no plans for paying off their debt. The...
07 September 2015
From: Breaking News

The over-55s are set to go on a property buying spree, new research suggests. More than a third of homeowners over the age...
03 September 2015
From: Breaking News

Homeowners rushed to remortgage in July amid signs that fixed-rate mortgages are now starting to creep up in price. Remortgaging jumped 29%...
27 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Repossession rates have fallen to another new low but brokers warn that will quickly reverse when interest rates finally start rising. Repossessions...
14 August 2015
From: Breaking News

New families can't afford to move up the property ladder in more than 95% of UK towns. New research published today shows they...
10 August 2015
From: Breaking News

Official figures showing GDP rose a robust 0.7% in the second quarter will add to pressure on the Bank of England...
29 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Equity release lending has surged to an all-time high in the second quarter of this year. The £384.3 million of lending is...
28 July 2015
From: Breaking News

A fall in the number and value of mortgage deals taken out by first-time buyers in May is a sign this...
15 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The amount of money generated by equity release deals in the first half of 2015 rose by almost a fifth according...
15 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Government plans to raise the inheritance tax (IHT) allowance could inflate the housing market by putting greater restrictions on the supply...
09 July 2015
From: Breaking News

Brokers remain confident that house prices will continue to rise this year despite new figures showing a fall of 0.2% in June. The surprise price...
03 July 2015
From: Breaking News

The number of remortgages grew strongly in May as homeowners took advantage of rising house prices and the lender price war...
30 June 2015
From: Breaking News

Help to Buy schemes have created 131 new homeowners every day since April 2013, Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has said. More than...