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Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest - along with Rightmove - have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business. This...

UK house prices fell by 0.2% in March. Nevertheless, the annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6% in...

The Nationwide Building Society has agreed to buy Virgin Money in a £2.9 billion deal - a rare example of a...

At the middle of last week Nationwide slashed its rates to the most competitive of all in the current lenders price...

The number of mortgages offered to home buyers went up from 49,300 in November to 50,500 in December, against the normal...

The UK's largest building society has slashed its cheapest mortgage rate to an eight-month low and significantly under the Bank of...

There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...

Karis Capital is launching as what it calls “a premier real estate debt advisory firm with plans to redefine how developers...

Rightmove is launching its first broker product, which will allow customers to access mortgage advice through the property website.   The portal,...

The Nationwide wants greater government support for first-time buyers as rising costs delay owning a home. As one of the UK’s biggest...

Nationwide has reduced selected mortgage rates by up to 0.43 per cent across its New Business, Switcher, Additional Borrowing, Existing Customers...

The Nationwide says high interest rates are helping to redefine the housing market in terms of transaction volumes and choices of...

Is the mortgage price war really over? On the one hand there are good signs for the housing market - no substantial...

There’s been a flurry of rate cuts from lenders serving all sector of the market as a battle begins for market...

Finance tech company Twenty7tec has produced mortgage market statistics for July 2023 - and it’s not all bad news… July was the...

The Bank of England’s latest stress test of the financial system suggests that UK's eight largest lenders could survive a worst...

Nationwide says the sharp rise in the costs of mortgages is causing a "significant drag" on the housing market - but...

Support appears to be growing for a campaign to improve lender communication and increase the notice given about withdrawn mortgage products.  Brokers...

Nationwide Building Society has returned to lending at 95 per cent loan to value on non-new build flats. The society reduced its...

Nationwide Building Society has launched a new Home Energy Efficiency Tool to coincide with the debut of new green loan products. The...

Gifts and loans from the Bank of Mum & Dad (BOMAD) totalled £8.8 billion in 2022, according to the latest analysis...

The Bank of England last week hiked interest rates by 0.5 percentage points - pushing the benchmark rate to 4% up...

Mortgage Brain announced West One as the latest lender to go live on Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain on the 6th...

In the UK, homeownership remains one of the main aspirations for young adults and families who envision climbing the property ladder...

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

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

A study by Henry Dannell, a specialist mortgage broker, has discovered how London remains the nation’s million-pound property market hotspot despite a...

A study by MoveStreets, the property portal designed for the mobile generation, has uncovered how much current home sellers are likely...

Research from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has shown that only a quarter (24%) of consumers know what the Energy Performance Certificate...

Deposit Unlock, a mortgage scheme that allows new build buyers to purchase with a 5% deposit, has launched nationally with 17...

A webinar poll conducted by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), one of the leading suppliers of valuation panel management services, has revealed...

New data from the property website, Rightmove, has revealed the number of homes listed for sale across Great Britain with an...

Tembo, a London-based FinTech on a mission to transform consumer lending through the power of family, has announced that it has...

Paymentshield is launching its first virtual conference of the year to help bring advisers together and create an opportunity for the...

Mortgage technology solution providers Twenty7Tec and Eligible ai have partnered to encourage advisers to use technology that will retain existing clients. The...

Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group chief executive officer of Mortgage Brain. Bilgrami joins the company after 11 years as chief...

Some 74% of people do not trust property documentation to be carried out safely and securely online, research from anti-money laundering...

For a number of years now, HM Land Registry (Land Registry) has been one of the most innovative and forward-thinking government...

Specialist development lender Puma Property Finance has bolstered its nationwide presence with the relocation of one of its managers, Paul Murphy,...

Paymentshied has announced the appointment of Nasar Hussain as national account manager south to support its network partners and their members. He...

Mortgage Brain has confirmed that Nationwide Building Society has joined Lendex, its new multi-lender application and submission gateway. This latest integration will...

Castle Trust has appointed Charissa Chang as business development manager (BDM) for the North. With over 17 years of experience working at...

Mortgage Brain has launched this year’s series of Mortgage Vision events. Now in it’s ninth year and having celebrated a 22% increase...

The Bank of Mum and Dad is now seeking financial advice and guidance, according to new research from Key. The independent equity...

Borrowers opting for the ‘cheapest’ mortgage deal with one of the UK’s ‘Big Six’ lenders could be paying almost £900 over...

Metro Bank has appointed Jeremy Cook as head of corporate relationships within its mortgage team. Cook will report directly to Charles Morley,...

Kent Reliance has announced three new appointments, which it says will help it cope with increased demand from brokers. The firm, which...

Nationwide is the latest building society to join the Equity Release Council (The Council) following its introduction to the lifetime mortgage...

Information on the impact of general data protection (GDPR) and how advisers can create their own digital customer experience are just...

Amicus Property Finance recently announced that it has appointed three new senior underwriters with long-standing banking experience. Alan Dorrington, Mark Heckles and...

It’s been announced that Andrew Moss has been appointed as Product Manager at specialist lender Foundation Home Loans. Moss, who will be...

MortgageGym.com, which claims to be the world’s only regulated mortgage robo-adviser, will be launched in the UK in the coming months,...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the names of a selection of industry experts who will be speaking at its...

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

The headline speakers for Mortgage Vision 2016 have been announced. The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) and Nationwide/The Mortgage Works will...

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

A green mortgage research project called LENDERS is asking all householders in the UK for their help in completing a survey...

Nationwide is reducing selected fixed rate and tracker mortgages by up to 0.25%. It will cut fixed rates up to 75% LTV...

Nationwide has announced that it is cutting fixed rates on smaller deposit mortgages. The building society is reducing selected fixed rate mortgages...

Nationwide Building Society is increasing its maximum age for mortgage maturity from 75 to 85. This follows last week's move by the...

Two sets of industry data published yesterday suggest that house price growth is finally starting to slow. Nationwide's figures showed annual house price...

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

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

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

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

Brokers say the housing market is "buzzing" as latest Halifax figures show activity rebounded in December. Prices rose 1.7% in December, reversing...

Nationwide is cutting selected deals by up to 0.40% across its range of 95% LTV fixed rate mortgages from today. Its two-year 95%...

The 2015 series of Mortgage Vision events saw a 23% jump in broker attendance to the highest level in the event’s...

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut new mortgage rates by up to 0.85% on its Buy to Let 2 year products to...

More than 7,000 Nationwide Building Society customers opened Help to Buy Isa accounts in the first week. Some have already applied for Nationwide’s Save to...

Two thirds of prospective homebuyers are likely to take advantage of the new Help to Buy Isa yet rates so far...

Santander has joined the growing list of banks and building societies that are announcing the rates on their Help to Buy...

Leading lenders Halifax and Nationwide have announced how much interest they will be paying on their Help to Buy Isas. The new...

Nationwide Building Society is removing all standard valuation fees from its mortgage range. Customers will now be able to select any mortgage...

More lenders are announced cut-price mortgage deals just days after predictions that the market was heading for a new price war. Tesco...

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

The number of mortgages for £1million or more has jumped by one-fifth in the last year. The sharp increase has been driven...

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

The impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) on brokers will take centre stage at this year’s series of Mortgage Vision...

Nationwide and The Co-operative Bank are the latest lenders to join in the recent bout of mortgage rate cutting. This follows a flurry...

Nationwide is aiming to boost first-time buyer mortgage lending with £1 billion of new low deposit products. It is launching a range...

Lloyds Banking Group has held onto its lead as the UK's biggest mortgage lender despite losing market share. Santander hopped above Nationwide to...

The Bank of Scotland attracted more complaints than any other mortgage lender in the first half of the year, just as...

The Mortgage Works (TMW) has launched its cheapest ever fixed-rate buy-to-let products with rate cuts of up to 0.50%. It has also...

New families can't afford to move up the property ladder in more than 95% of UK towns. New research published today shows they...

Nationwide Building Society will back the new government-backed Help to Buy Isa from 1 December. The new offering will run alongside its...

Nationwide Building Society is today cutting rates on a number of fixed-rate deals for customers with small deposits. The organisation said it...

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...

Halifax and Nationwide have both announced rate cuts across a series of mortgage products. Halifax has cut rates on first-time buyer in...

Nationwide has cut its two-year fixed rates for borrowers with smaller deposits by up to 0.25%. And it has made further reductions...

Metro Bank has launched a new website to make it easier for brokers nationwide to interact with the bank. Accessed via Metro...

The property market shrugged off pre-election jitters to jump 1% in April, according to Nationwide. Experts say the housing market is now "a...

Nationwide is making a series of rate reductions across its mortgage range from today with fixed rates cut by up to...