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![Mortgage market will see off General Election instability - expert's view](/upload/images/24%2006%2010%20%2005.jpg)
The mortgage market is resilient enough to endure temporary political uncertainty created by next month’s General Election. That’s the view of Jonathan...
10 June 2024
From: Breaking News
![Boost for First Time Buyer lending as last-gasp law change approved](/upload/images/24%2005%2030%20%2002.jpg)
The Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment Bill) successfully passed its legislative stages as part of the last minute ‘wash up’ of...
30 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![High Interest Rates push buyers into smaller property purchases](/upload/images/24%2005%2028%20%2003.jpg)
An online agency has analysed current housing market listings to see which types of home are most in demand from England’s...
28 May 2024
From: Breaking News
![IMLA accuses Hunt of “sop” in Budget that does nothing for rental sector](/upload/images/240311%2005.jpg)
The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association has given the thumbs down to the Budget of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. The trade body was disappointed...
11 March 2024
From: Breaking News
![Buyers Increasingly Use Family Inheritance to fund Property Purchase](/upload/images/23%2012%2006%2004.jpg)
London accounts for the highest proportion of homebuyers using family inheritance to fund property purchases, according to compliance platform Thirdfort. Some 18...
06 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage approvals predicted to drop by 13% for residential property purchases](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/FinanceCalculator-400x310.png)
Octane Capital expects the total level of UK mortgage approvals to be 1.570 million by the end of 2022. That is...
22 November 2022
From: Breaking News
![How will the stamp duty cut impact new-build stock levels?](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
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...
03 October 2022
From: Breaking News
![SDLT cut benefit to be wiped out within a month - insight](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/StampDuty-2020-400x310.jpg)
As a result of the current high rates of upward house price growth, research by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has...
30 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - stamp duty cut estimated to save homebuyers £1bn per year](/upload/images/library/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
The government announced the SDLT will only be payable on property purchases over £250,000. First-time buyers will only pay the tax...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![First-time buyer deposits climb 41% in the last decade](/upload/images/library/Deposit-1-400x310.jpg)
Deposits for property purchases typically cost 10-15% of the value of the home and saving for one can be particularly challenging, especially for...
16 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![Make way second-steppers – FTBs account for 11% of market activity](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/MillennialTenants-Tablet-400x310.jpg)
Research by Stipendium reveals that first-time buyers account for one in 10 of all property transactions across England. The property platform analysed...
16 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![The end of a decline – foreign interest returns to the London market](/upload/images/Locations/London400x310.png)
International buyers are slowly returning to the London property market after three consecutive years of declining market activity, research by debt...
19 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Sales hit a snag: Almost half of transactions subjected to down valuations](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/housing-market400x310.png)
A recent survey carried out by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has estimated that almost half of pandemic property purchases across...
28 April 2022
From: Breaking News
![Russian homebuyers spent £190m on London property last year](/upload/images/Locations/russia%20flag.png)
Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has found that Russian residential property purchases contributed...
10 March 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - Chain free homes command premiums up to £76k](/upload/images/library/Chain400x310.jpg)
Chain-free properties are proving to be very popular amongst homebuyers. That is according to estate agent comparison website GetAgent. Property chains involve a...
25 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![London high-end homes rise in demand](/upload/images/library/Central-London400x310.png)
In a recent property market analysis, put forward by London-based lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves, market growth during the...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage cost rises could hit London buyers the hardest](/upload/images/library/UpsetCouple-400x310.png)
Market analysis has revealed where house price growth could stutter should monthly interest payments start to climb as a result of...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Study - London still home to the most £1m+ transactions](/upload/images/Locations/LondonMap400x310-min.png)
A study by Henry Dannell, a specialist mortgage broker, has discovered how London remains the nation’s million-pound property market hotspot despite a...
11 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - 6.5% of pandemic property purchases are new builds](/upload/images/Coronavirus/AdobeStock_422573796.jpeg)
Throughout the pandemic, people across Britain have purchased new homes. Changes in lifestyle trends and schemes that make purchasing a new...
09 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![The stamp duty holiday leaves homebuyers up to £120k worse off](/upload/images/library/Stamp-Duty400x310.png)
In July 2020 the stamp duty holiday was kickstarted by chancellor Rishi Sunak. It gave first-time buyers and home movers up...
25 November 2021
From: Breaking News
![Advisers warned against rushing AML checks to beat stamp duty holiday](/img/default/it.png)
As the first stage of the stamp duty holiday (SDLT) draws to a near close on June 30 2021, many homebuyers...
24 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Forget the noughties – Hope Capital launches seventies collection](/img/default/it.png)
Hope Capital has launched the ‘seventies collection’, which comprises two new bridging loan products. The HOPE 70 products offer a low rate...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
![Roma Finance slashes bridging and development rates](/img/default/it.png)
Roma Finance, the bridging, buy-to-let and development finance lender, has cut rates across its product range. This follows further funding lines with...
14 February 2020
From: Breaking News
![Help to Buy ISAs supported nearly 89,000 property purchases in 2018](/img/default/it.png)
The number of property purchases supported by Help to Buy ISAs increased by 8% this year, rising from 82,940 in 2017/18...
02 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Average Bank of Mum and Dad mortgage contribution rises by £6,000](/img/default/it.png)
The Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) is currently spending an average of £6,000 more than in 2018 to help loved...
19 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![First-time buyers make up half of all property purchases in July](/img/default/it.png)
First-time buyers accounted for half of all home purchase valuations in July, according to the latest research from Connells Survey &...
29 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![New head of sales recruited by Mint Bridging](/img/default/it.png)
Bridging lender Mint Bridging has appointed Sinead Moynihan as its Head of Sales. She will be based at the company’s head...
17 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Together lowers buy-to-let rates](/img/default/it.png)
Rates on first charge buy-to-let mortgages have been reduced by mortgage lender Together. This takes them below 7%, with LTVs of...
07 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Mortgage Trust launches its 'most competitive' products for two decades](/img/default/it.png)
Mortgage Trust has launched a series of products catering for buy-to-let property purchases and remortgages. The lender says that the products, which...
21 October 2016
From: Breaking News
![Lawyers to blame for collapsing property purchases](/img/default/it.png)
Almost three out of 10 property purchases have fallen through in the past five years, largely due to conveyancers holding up...
11 May 2016
From: Breaking News
![Cash is king in prime London](/img/default/it.png)
Cash is now king in the prime London market with six out of 10 of purchases made by investors or second-home...
27 April 2016
From: Breaking News
![Lifetime Isa won’t ease supply problems](/img/default/it.png)
Property experts have warned that Chancellor George Osborne's new Lifetime Isa will do nothing to solve housing supply and affordability problems. From April...
17 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Buy-to-let boom doubles house price growth](/img/default/it.png)
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...
10 March 2016
From: Breaking News
![Flood checks set to be standard for property purchases](/img/default/it.png)
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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![Buy-to-let surcharge to spark mini-boom](/img/default/it.png)
The surcharge on stamp duty for investors and second homeowners will spark a mini-boom in property prices, a new survey says. Six out...