UK mortgage lending is forecast to grow just 1.5% (net) in 2024, according to the latest EY ITEM Club Outlook for...
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Five major lenders - NatWest, Barclays, Accord, Leeds Building Society and HSBC - have all announced rate increases so far this...
24 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The majority of buyers and sellers in the prime housing market will not be deterred by the upcoming General Election, claims...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
UK house prices fell by 0.2% in March. Nevertheless, the annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6% in...
10 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Mortgage approvals jumped 7.7% in February to 60,383, and were 40% higher than they were a year ago, new figures from...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
New data from Rightmove reveals that Thursday March 28 was the biggest day for the number of new sellers coming to...
08 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Recent economic data was reassuringly predictable. We learned that core inflation fell by fractionally more than expected while services inflation proved slightly...
04 April 2024
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Remortgagers, not buyers, are fuelling the increase in mortgage industry activity. That’s the view of Octane Capital following an analysis of Bank...
28 February 2024
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The number of mortgages offered to home buyers went up from 49,300 in November to 50,500 in December, against the normal...
05 February 2024
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is warning that ‘future shocks’ may yet derail economic recovery. In a session with MPs at...
15 January 2024
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There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...
10 January 2024
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Latest Bank of England data released in recent days shows net mortgage approvals for house purchases rose from 47,900 in October...
08 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Office for Budget Responsibility - part of the Treasury but operating independently of government - is forecasting house prices to...
29 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The equity release market has seen growth for the first time in 12 months with quarterly increases in both new customers...
08 November 2023
From: Breaking News
The buy-to-let sector has seen fixed rates fall and product choice grow month-on-month, according to the latest analysis by Moneyfactscompare. Overall buy-to-let...
16 October 2023
From: Breaking News
New seller asking prices rise by just 0.2% (+£890) this month to £366,247, which is notably lower than the average increase...
25 April 2023
From: Breaking News
Since the pandemic property market boom, recent research by YourBusinessNumber has disclosed that one in three property professionals have taken time...
23 June 2022
From: Breaking News
London estate agent Bective recently conducted a property market analysis. The findings show that London ranks third place for the third-largest...
12 October 2021
From: Breaking News
2020 was a year when every sector needed to learn how to adapt to challenging circumstances and the mortgage industry seems...
26 May 2021
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An equity release advisory is reflecting on the shifts in equity release usage and behaviour in the first quarter of 2021. Research...
06 May 2021
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Like most industries impacted by the Covid pandemic, the world of bridging finance has experienced a contradictory, sometimes stormy and altogether...
02 February 2021
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West One has launched an initiative to support the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) via its second charge mortgage range. The...
17 December 2020
From: Breaking News
As we approach the end of what has been a difficult year, Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has confirmed that it will...
15 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Advisers have recently faced a relentless succession of challenges in the attempt to source consistent returns for clients in an environment...
02 October 2020
From: Breaking News
The principal issue we come up against as we go around the UK visiting all our brokers is a lack of...
20 January 2017
From: Breaking News
The NACFB is sometimes perceived as being an Association of commercial mortgage brokers and asset finance brokers, forgetting the other 20%...
14 July 2016
From: Breaking News
The mortgage market has started 2016 "with a bang" as gross mortgage lending rose 21% year-on-year. Lending hit £17.9 billion in January,...
19 February 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
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Buy-to-let lending continued to race ahead of the mortgage market in September as investors ignore Chancellor George Osborne's forthcoming tax crackdown. Investors drove large quarterly and...
12 November 2015
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Buy-to-let sales through intermediaries have soared over the last year as the sector continues to boom. Sales in August 2015 were up...
25 September 2015
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UK house prices rose 9% in the past year after a strong summer that saw prices leap 3% between June and August,...
11 September 2015
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UK house prices increased 5.7% in the year to June but London is trailing as the capital's property market continues to...
19 August 2015
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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...
13 August 2015
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Two new sets of figures show the prime London property market has slumped in recent months after years of surging ahead. Analysis...
13 August 2015
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Property sales in prime central London property sales have been hit by stamp duty reforms with no sign of an immediate recovery. In...
04 August 2015
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House price growth in the UK's leading cities is set to hit 10% this year as the market recovery continues. The Hometrack UK...