Archive

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association has given the thumbs down to the Budget of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. The trade body was disappointed...

Lenders’ trade body UK Finance wants the government to use next month’s Budget to announce a new Help to Buy scheme...

London accounts for the highest proportion of homebuyers using family inheritance to fund property purchases, according to compliance platform Thirdfort.  Some 18...

A new survey of 2,000 UK adults has revealed that 50 per cent of those who have applied for a mortgage...

Autumn 2023 will see the return of the Homebuyer Show Scotland in Glasgow, a dedicated show for Scottish homebuyers looking to...

The latest market analysis by specialist property lending experts, Octane Capital, reveals that recent uncertainty in the property market during the...

Technology firm, OneDome, has bought CMME Mortgage and Protection for an undisclosed sum. Describing itself as the world’s first eHomebuying platform, OneDome...

Octane Capital expects the total level of UK mortgage approvals to be 1.570 million by the end of 2022. That is...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, claims that after purchasing a property the average homebuyer pays £76,000 during the initial year. In some...

Foreign buyers from the United States have been benefitting from a weakening pound to the greatest extent, the latest research by...

The latest research by Alliance Fund shows that the government’s decision to cut stamp duty could boost new housing delivery by 16%. The changes...

As a result of the current high rates of upward house price growth, research by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has...

As governmental changes sweep through the nation, countless elements within the property sector have been affected, including mortgages. Market analysis by specialist...

The government announced the SDLT will only be payable on property purchases over £250,000. First-time buyers will only pay the tax...

A recent study by money.co.uk reveals which places in the UK have forever homes. A forever home is a property the buyer...

Mortgage broker, Henry Dannel, claim that over the past 12 months there has been a 22% increase in bridging loan lending...

During the home buying process, specific information and documentation is required to ensure that the buyer is suitable. These checks are...

Deposits for property purchases typically cost 10-15% of the value of the home and saving for one can be particularly challenging, especially for...

If you’ve ever been to the capital, then you’ll know that there are plenty of high-end homes, some for sale or...

Since seeing a pandemic inspired boost back in 2019, the latest research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that...

While digital continues to dominate the way we purchase properties, the latest property insight from YourBusinessNumber suggests that homebuyers still find...

Research by Stipendium reveals that first-time buyers account for one in 10 of all property transactions across England. The property platform analysed...

The average stamp duty payment on buy-to-let (BTL) homes has increased by £11,848 in England, and almost 1,000% higher than that...

International buyers are slowly returning to the London property market after three consecutive years of declining market activity, research by debt...

A recent survey carried out by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has estimated that almost half of pandemic property purchases across...

Nearly two-fifths of UK homebuyers have experienced a property purchase fall through due to mortgage delays, new research by Butterfield Mortgages...

Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has found that Russian residential property purchases contributed...

A study by GetAgent.co.uk has shown how the nation’s property sellers could be left with a particularly sweet taste in their...

Research from the property platform, Boomin, has discovered that living on a Valentine’s related road name could provide a substantial boost...

Chain-free properties are proving to be very popular amongst homebuyers. That is according to estate agent comparison website GetAgent. Property chains involve a...

Estate agent comparison website GetAgent.co.uk recently surveyed 1,101 homebuyers to uncover their upcoming plans after their property purchase. The findings show that...

In a recent property market analysis, put forward by London-based lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves, market growth during the...

Market analysis has revealed where house price growth could stutter should monthly interest payments start to climb as a result of...

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 GetAgent.co.uk has found the cost of buying a property across one of the nation’s festive road names, with a...

Throughout the pandemic, people across Britain have purchased new homes. Changes in lifestyle trends and schemes that make purchasing a new...

In July 2020 the stamp duty holiday was kickstarted by chancellor Rishi Sunak. It gave first-time buyers and home movers up...

A new study from equity release lender more2life has uncovered the UK regions where using equity release to fund a house...

Research by GetAgent has revealed how asking prices across many areas of the property market tumbled in the wake of the...

London lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves recently publicised which London boroughs homebuyers can purchase a property at a reduced...

As the first stage of the stamp duty holiday (SDLT) draws to a near close on June 30 2021, many homebuyers...

Hope Capital has launched the ‘seventies collection’, which comprises two new bridging loan products. The HOPE 70 products offer a low rate...

Roma Finance, the bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, has cut rates across its product range. This follows further funding lines with...

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

The Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) is currently spending an average of £6,000 more than in 2018 to help loved...

First-time buyers accounted for half of all home purchase valuations in July, according to the latest research from Connells Survey &...

Bridging lender Mint Bridging has appointed Sinead Moynihan as its Head of Sales. She will be based at the company’s head...

Mortgage affordability is increasing for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgagors, according to the latest index from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). The...

Rates on first charge buy-to-let mortgages have been reduced by mortgage lender Together. This takes them below 7%, with LTVs of...

Mortgage Trust has launched a series of products catering for buy-to-let property purchases and remortgages. The lender says that the products, which...

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

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

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

With the scale of devastation from flooding witnessed recently, anxiety about purchasing a property in a flood risk area is heightened....

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 surcharge on stamp duty for investors and second homeowners will spark a mini-boom in property prices, a new survey says. Six out...

The UK may be in deflation but this has had little impact on buy-to-let rents which leapt by 4.7% over the...

Barclays is launching fee-free mortgages with up to £1,000 in cash back from today. Its new purchase-only products are available on LTVs from 60% to...

Difficulties in putting together deposits and the General Election put a dampener on the number of first-time buyers completing property purchases...