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

Average bills for home insurance are up just 2.1% in a year, with a competitive marketplace keeping up with the UK’s...

Nearly a quarter of UK homes have no home insurance, according to Assurant Intermediary. The insurance company says advisers play a vital...

Many key indicators for home movers and first-time buyers remained either stable or only marginally changed when compared to the previous...

The number of 40-year mortgages approved jumped over 20-fold in 2018, up from only 162 in 2017, according to ludlowthompson. The London...

Specialist buy-to-let lender Landbay has agreed a £1 billion deal to bolster its mortgage lending. The funding – which is from a...

Privately-owned specialist mortgage and finance brokerage, City Finance Brokers, has announced the addition of Simon Kelly to its network. The appointment of...

Leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has done research into finding how travelling across London Underground can lead to big rental...

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) London, taking place on October 16, will feature a keynote presentation by the Bank of England (BoE). Rob...

Trussle, the UK’s first online mortgage broker, is campaigning for fairer mortgages. The company has launched a manifesto which seeks to champion...

Brits only own the equivalent of an average-sized kitchen and bathroom at the point of officially entering into a mortgage, according...

My Home Move has won the title of ‘Best Conveyancing Firm’ at this year’s Mortgage Strategy Awards. This award follows the firm...

The number of properties available in London under Help to Buy (HTB) has declined by 64% since 2017, according to modular...

One in six mortgage holders have been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? Mortgage...

Almost half of homeowners are making overpayments on their mortgages, according to new research from Which? Mortgage Advisers. Those aged 18-24 led...

The voting for the national customer service awards which recognises the nation's best mortgage brokers closes at the end of this...

Pepper Money has appointed Phil Quinn to the new role of National Account Manager. Quinn will work with Pepper Money’s key distribution...

Demand for bridging loans increased in the third quarter of 2018, according to bridging lender mtf. Its latest Broker Sentiment Survey found...

As many as one in three UK homeowners don’t know what mortgage rate they are on, potentially costing them thousands of...

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced it will be featuring a presentation by the presenter of Homes Under the Hammer, Martin...

Accord Mortgages has announced a range of new or enhanced initiatives designed to support brokers with new-build cases. This includes a range...

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the launch of its new Help to Buy range which will cover the England and London schemes. Available...

Shawbrook has announced the additions of Amanda Meadows and Shrena Patel to the commercial mortgages sales team as business development managers...

The national month-on-month figures for new listings ‘for sale’ reached 9.4%, while the amount of properties sold sat at 6.2% in...

A new 5-year fixed-rate buy-to-let range with reduced rates and product fees to support brokers and customers has been launched by...

April saw significant purchasing and remortgaging activity following forecasts suggesting an interest rate rise in May, according to the Mortgage Advice...

Nearly two out of five (38%) landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year compared to 28%...

After a period of expansion and steady growth, Mortgage brain has completed a £2.5 million redevelopment of its office in Croydon. The...

The first digital mortgage was entered into the Land Register by Enact Conveyancing and Coventry Building Society for a house in...

Short-term lender Alternative Bridging has recently opened a Midlands office, further expanding its business in the region. With its existing broker network...

Purchase prices varied across the UK, with some regions seeing prices increase both month on month and year on year, according...

The number of visitors for the Finance Professional Show (FP Show) were up 13% on the 2016 event with over 2,000...

The vast majority of mortgage advisers are at risk of failing to comply with the new rules and regulations set in...

The homebuying process and its associated costs is being met with a lack of understanding amongst potential first-time buyers, fresh research...

Six in ten parents can afford to financially support their children to buy their first home, while only 5% can pay...

The latest ‘bubble alert’ from One 77 Mortgages found lending in March 2017 was in decline compared to March last year...

Mortgage Brain has strengthened its integrated second charge sourcing capability by expanding the Master Brokers accessible to network companies, as well...

After a successful seminar program last year, Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced another buy-to-let (BTL) seminar program in partnership with...

President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement earlier this year doesn’t seem to have put a dent in a basic architectural...

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

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

L&G Mortgage Club will be hosting another live conference in London this autumn following the success of last year’s event. Attendees will...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has become the latest network to be added to the Mortgage Lender’s distribution panel. Brian Murphy, head of...

Fresh statistics suggest the UK’s mortgage market has been boosted again, with approvals for home lending up month on month and...

The commercial and private client practice, JPC Law, has now joined the ranks as an associate member of the Association of...

It's been quite the year politically. Brexit, Trump's election, the triggering of Article 50, a new French President and now another...

Almost a third of mortgage advisers believe that Britain’s exit from the EU will have a positive or very positive effect...

Research carried out by Equifax Touchstone, analysing the intermediary marketplace, has revealed that Northern Ireland had the highest regional mortgage sales...

The Moneyfacts Group has announced the finalists for its awards ceremony, taking place on June 6 in the Pavilion at the...

Daniel Bailey, an independent mortgage adviser from North Derbyshire, has bagged one of the financial industry’s most prestigious awards. Bailey, director of...

The latest House Price Sentiment Index (HPSI) from Knight Frank and IHS Markit has revealed that households throughout the UK perceive...

A new broker portal platform has been launched by lending specialist Paragon Group, assisted by financial sevices software provider BEP Systems. The portal,...

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has announced that it is expanding its roadshow this year from 10 to 12 regional...

Who are you? Edward Trustworth, 23 What does it say on your business card? Founder, MyTenantedProperty.com What does the business do and what are you...

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

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

The majority of brokers surveyed by Legal & General say they either currently recommend or would recommend later life lending or...

Average house prices dipped by 0.4% between April and May, according to the latest figures from estate agents Your Move and...

This month the Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the winners of its annual awards. The awards – which recognise excellence...

A new mortgage calculator is to allow prospective buyers considering shared ownership to work out the total cost of purchasing a...

House prices in Greater London have topped £600,000 for the first time ever, new figures show. Prices increased by 14.9% over the...

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

More than eight out of 10 of brokers plan to include second charges in their advice process this year. A new survey...

The average London property may come with an eye-watering price tag of £550,000 but the real cost of buying is even...

Housing market sentiment remains strong with most owners optimistic about the future despite market uncertainties, new research shows. Households in all UK...

Tottenham Hotspur may have missed out on the Premier League title but the local property market has claimed the house price growth...

Tesco Bank has announced plans to increase the number of intermediaries offering its mortgages. Customers can now access Tesco’s range of mortgages...

The supposed slowdown in the London property market is a “myth” as the majority of Londoners see prices continue to rise. While...

The price of the average home in London broke through the £600,000 price barrier in April for the first time, Home values in...

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

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

Increasing levels of rents around the UK have softened the blow of recent rises in stamp duty levels for landlords, according...

New data showing a sharp decline in property affordability in the UK capital will put pressure on the new London mayor...

Cash is now king in the prime London market with six out of 10 of purchases made by investors or second-home...

Tesco is to make its mortgages available through brokers via a tie-up with Legal & General. The new service called Tesco Mortgage Intermediaries...

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

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...

The housing market is facing a “climate of uncertainty” as the UK waves goodbye to buy-to-let boom, according to the Royal...

UK house prices rose 7.6% in the year to February and property experts expect the "unrelenting" growth to continue. This marked a...

HSBC is offering mortgages through three new brokers in a bid to widen access to its mortgages. This follows its successful partnerships...

The number of rental properties spiked by more than 20% in the final week before the stamp duty surcharge was introduced, new figures...

New Street Mortgages has announced a new distribution partnership with Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). Under the agreement, all of MAB’s members now...

Transactions in prime central London picked up in March due to falling asking prices and the buy-to-let stamp duty surcharge. Latest research...

Buy-to-let investors were racing to beat the new 3% duty surcharge right up to midnight on 31 March as a frantic first quarter drew...

Mortgage brokers and property experts are warning that the latest attempt to dampen the buy-to-let market could backfire. The Bank of England...

Intermediary mortgage sales exceeded all expectations in February to hit the highest level since the 2008 market crash. Residential and buy-to-let sales...

UK house prices continue to accelerate increasing by 7.9% in the year to January, up from 6.7% in December. Prices were driven...

Single first-time buyers and England and Wales need 13 years to save for a deposit - rising to his 46 years...

Property experts have warned that Chancellor George Osborne's new Lifetime Isa will do nothing to solve housing supply and affordability problems. From April...

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

Almost half of all home movers say they plan to downsize when taking their next step on the property market over the...

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

The pace of house price growth has doubled due to a boom in buy-to-let sales ahead of April's stamp duty surcharge, new...

London is likely to remain attractive to overseas buyers regardless of the result of the Brexit referendum. Property buying agency Black Brick...

April's forthcoming stamp duty surcharge on investors has brought the prime central London property market back from the dead. Property demand has...

Skipton Building Society has unveiled its new product ranges for both the Help to Buy London and Help to Buy Scotland...

House prices leapt by 2.5% in January to mark the biggest monthly upswing for 14 years, Land Registry figures show. The average...

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...

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...

The North/South divide in house price expectations has now widened to record levels, new figures show. Households in all UK regions perceive...

The number of million pound properties in the UK will more than triple by 2030, new research suggests By that date, one...

Property agencies report a surge in demand for London buy-to-let property ahead of the looming surcharge on stamp duty. But some fear...

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 flood of buy-to-let investors looking to beat the forthcoming 3% surcharge on stamp duty is driving house prices even higher...

Britain is becoming a nation of "forever renters" as the lifetime cost of renting exceeds £50,000, driving home ownership out of reach...

Buy-to-let rents are growing strongly outside Greater London with an average increase of 5.5% over the last year. Rents in the South-East grew fastest...

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

Demand for property in London continues to soar as buyers rush to beat April's forthcoming stamp duty surcharge on investment properties. Both new buyer registrations...

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

New Street Mortgages has launched into the UK market as a new mass market lending brand under the recently announced Northview...

Quantum by Bridgebank Capital has completed a £10.95 million short term loan advance against a portfolio of prime London properties, part...

The Greater London property boom is spreading with average prices in more than half of all postcodes breaking through £500,000. Half-million-pound postcodes...

London property prices rose at double the pace of the rest of the UK last year, new figures show. Prices in the capital...

NatWest and RBS have unveiled their plans to help more people get a foot on the capital's property ladder through the...

Leeds Building Society will launch its first Help to Buy London mortgages from on Monday 1 February. The society is among the first...

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

The shortage of properties for sale has hit house purchase approvals which fell more than 3% in December. There were 68,218 house purchase...

UK house prices leapt by 7.7% in the year to November after rising at the fastest rate for eight months. This compares...

2016 will be a critical year for the property market as we see the impact of the global economic slowdown and...

House prices in England and Wales have risen by nearly £18,000 in the last year, an average rise of nearly £1,500...

Estate agents report a surge in investors looking to buy property before the new buy-to-let stamp duty surcharge comes into force. The...

More than nine out of 10 buy-to-let investors are set to lose money within five years due to forthcoming tax changes,...

Mortgage sales through intermediaries have disappointed for the second consecutive month, new figures show. Total mortgage sales have fallen by 8.4% last...

Higher stamp duty on £1 million plus properties has hit growth in prime central London and pushed it to the fringes...

House price inflation in UK cities hit 10% in 2015 led by London, where the average property jumped 13.3% to £52,900. Buyers need...

House prices are set to soar 50% and rents more than 25% over the next 10 years, new figures suggest. The proportion...

More than 200 Britons are becoming property millionaires every single day taking the total to more than 600,000. There were 75,796 new British...

House prices in England and Wales jumped £16,446 in the last year to hit a new record high of £290,640. This is...

House price growth will slow in 2016 as buyers struggle to get on the housing ladder and interest rates potentially rise,...

House price growth in prime central London is grinding to a halt as higher stamp duty on expensive properties hits growth. Annual growth...

Chancellor George Osborne isn't alone in launching an attack on buy-to-let, Bank of England governor Mark Carney is also muscling in on the act. Carney...

New Land Registry figures showed house prices in England and Wales rising a healthy 5.6% in the year to October, taking...

Life remains tough for first-time buyers with a shock fall in completions in the three months to October. The new figures underline the...

The Chancellor's pledge to build 400,000 new homes and support young buyers in London have been welcomed by the property industry but...

British buyers are "emboldened" in the London property market and now account for nearly eight out of 10 new sales. Overseas buyers account...

UK house prices increased by 6.1% in the year to September 2015 with London and the South once again leading the...

Investment demand has picked up in prime central London after recent reports of a property slowdown in the capital. Newly-released third-quarter Land...

New figures show that the UK tax rate on buy-to-let investments is already higher than in many other countries, even before Chancellor George...

A fall in the number of affordable homes being put up for sale has driven overall property availability in the UK...

Two new sets of figures published today showing the housing market firing on all cylinders into the autumn. House in England and...

The number of new properties coming onto the market across the UK increased for the second consecutive month in October. Online estate...

The average UK rent outside London rose 3.5% over the past 12 months to £749 a month but the pace of...

Chancellor George Osborne is under attack by critics who claim his recent stamp duty overhaul which has hit property sales and slashed revenues from...

First-time buyers need to earn on average £50,000 a year to get on the property ladder, new research suggests. The average salary...

UK house prices rose 9.7% in the year to October and should continue climbing over the coming year, according to the...

More than half of UK homeowners believe leaving the EU will have an impact on property prices, new research shows. Some 34%...

London is on track to be in a house price bubble by 2017, new research suggests. The latest alarm call about the...

Landlords seem to be under attack from all sides of the political divide, as Chancellor George Osborne buy-to-let tax crackdown proceeds...

The London property market is the most overvalued in Europe and is at risk of a bubble due to "explosive price...

The average London house price has leapt 9.6% in a year to £499,997 as the capital's market springs back to life. This reverses the recent...

Buying and moving into a new house is a stressful business at the best of times, but people invariably add to...

There has been a sharp fall in sales of million pound houses as the top end of the property market continues...

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

The prime central London property bubble appears to have burst as demand falls and a surge of new stock saturates the market. Demand...

Buy-to-let investors in England and Wales enjoyed total returns of nearly 10% in the past year, new figures show. Landlords saw gross rental...

Latest figures show UK house prices slowed in the year to August with annual growth of 5.2%. That is unchanged from July,...

Price growth in prime central London looks set to slow further as the property market faces a number of headwinds. Knight Frank has cut...

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

Nationwide has announced a string of cuts to its fixed-rate range just one day after analysts warned of yet another mortgage price...

The cost of fixed rate mortgages is set to plummet as lenders rush to meet 2015 lending targets. London estate agent Portico.com...

Landlords have been warned of a sharp rise in sub-letting scams as sky-high demand for property gives unscrupulous tenants the opportunity to...

Changes to the stamp duty system introduced at the end of last year have led to a slowdown in sales of...

Figures published yesterday by Nationwide Building Society show the widening gap between in property values in London and the South-east and...

The amount of money locked up in homes owned by the over-65s has grown by almost £17.5 billion in the past...

Property price inflation has fallen back slightly to 4.2% a year in England and Wales, according to the latest figures from...

Three-bedroom properties have seen the fastest growth for rents after rising 4.6% in the last year. London computer hotspots like Windsor and...

The number of landlords increasing rents for tenants fell in August, the first drop this year, new figures show. Only one in three...

The current mortgage price war will not last forever, mortgage lenders have warned. Lenders taking part in a panel debate at the...

UK house prices rose by 5.2% over the last year helped by the return of the first-time buyer. The annual pace of...

The prime central London property market has endured a "subdued summer" after the excitement of recent years. Annual price growth of 1.7%...

House prices now cost six times income even in the most affordable regions of England and Wales as the affordability crisis worsens. In...

The number of homes coming onto the UK property market has surged to its highest level since 2010, new figures show. Nearly...

Rents across England and Wales have hit a fresh high after a record surge in July, new figures show. The average rent...

Buy-to-let landlords face a "severe dent" in post-tax profits following Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown. Individual landlords will face extra tax bills of £2,000...

UK house prices increased 5.7% in the year to June but London is trailing as the capital's property market continues to...

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...

Two new sets of figures show the prime London property market has slumped in recent months after years of surging ahead. Analysis...

Buy-to-let rental income has surged ahead of both inflation and house price growth to hit an average of £977 a month. The...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will discuss the impact of the EU Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) on borrowers and brokers at...

Investors have strengthened their grip on the prime central London property market and are now responsible for more than four out...

Property sales in prime central London property sales have been hit by stamp duty reforms with no sign of an immediate recovery. In...

Talk of an affordability crisis appears overblown as homes are now more affordable than in 1997, new research suggests. A combination of falling...

A London mortgage broker who evaded almost £115,000 in corporation tax by lying about his company profits has been sentenced for...

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics show that private rental prices paid by tenants in Great Britain rose by...

HSBC is launching a fresh assault on into the broker market by making its mortgage range available through London & Country Mortgages from next...

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

Most landlords will remain loyal to buy-to-let despite Chancellor George Osborne's crackdown on tax relief in his recent Budget. Osborne limited tax relief...

The house price sentiment index in positive territory for 28th consecutive month with households in all UK regions saying property prices...

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 price of average British home leapt by more than £7,000 in the first half of this year to hit £270,674. That...

While the London housing market drove UK growth in 2014, the capital should underperform the rest of the country this year,...

Chelsea continue to top the Property Premier League despite a recent drop in form, new figures suggest. The average property price in the SW6...

Wakefield, Coventry, Brighton, Nottingham and Greater London are the parts of the UK where renters who have just moved to the...

Proposals announced last week by Chancellor George Osborne to reform the planning system in the UK may not do enough to...

Mortgage brokers and property companies have welcomed government proposals to overhaul Britain’s planning laws and increase housebuilding. Chancellor George Osborne announced on...

Prices of properties near the main site of the 2012 London Olympics are increasing at twice the average rate in the...

London house prices surged in May to add £23,132 to the value of the average home, new figures show. The capital's property...

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

Landlord income from buy-to-let income is rising again as demand from tenants outstrips the plunging supply of rental property. The number of...

The ESTAS are more than the biggest and most prestigious awards in the industry. They are a management information service, marketing...

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

As UK house prices reach new records and the price for an average London property crosses £500k, you might wondering whether...

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

TMA is kicking off this year’s round of business conferences for directly authorised (DA) advisers.  The five conferences will take place in...

Record low interest rates couldn't prevent a decline in lending and house prices in April. UK house prices increased by 5.5% in...

There has been a rush of buyers into prime central London property in the immediate aftermath of the General Election. There are...

Rent prices are now rising in every region of the UK, while the pace of growth in London has picked up...

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