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Large gaps remain between Mortgage Approval Prices and Asking Prices - even though there is some evidence of vendors and agents...

MPs on the all-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee want to quiz representatives from across the house selling community about...

UK house prices grew in March on a quarterly basis, by 2.0%, with annual growth slowing to 0.3%, from 1.6% in...

Shared ownership has failed to deliver an affordable route to home ownership for too many and for too long, says a...

New data from Rightmove reveals that Thursday March 28 was the biggest day for the number of new sellers coming to...

New research shows that sellers in Wales are likely to be hit hardest by a down valuation, with the average home...

A buying agency says stamp duty is one of the biggest obstacles to a healthy housing market driven. Recoco Property Search says...

The latest housing market snapshot from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors shows the number of buyers has risen for the...

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

Business consultancy Hargreaves Lansdown has identified three major risks associated with the current market, characterised by falling house prices and larger...

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

London estate agency Foxtons says its latest survey shows a major uptick in the confidence of potential sellers.  While 38 per cent...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023 with house prices having dropped one one to...

Three years ago the Financial Conduct Authority banned discretionary commission arrangements in a bid to end the incentive for brokers to...

Metro Bank says it will not, after all, be selling its residential mortgage portfolio despite widespread industry speculation that it was...

There’s been a 46 per cent increase in ‘for sale’ stock hitting the market as sellers look forward to a Boxing...

The research chief at lettings agency Hamptons says it’s likely that landlords have been hit harder by high interest rates than...

UK Finance’s latest Household Finance Review - for the second quarter of this year - lifts the lid on mortgages. The headlines...

Brokers are wanting that the recent Rightmove asking price index does not mean that sellers are necessarily in a position to...

New seller asking prices rise by just 0.2% (+£890) this month to £366,247, which is notably lower than the average increase...

Despite the recent economic turbulence, the bridging market has seen more requests for fast, short-term finance. This type of finance provides certainty...

Mortgage interest rates increased by 2.56% in 2022, with a sharp increase from 1.51% in January to a record 4.07% on...

Although the property market is starting to slow, Stripe Property Group claims demand for new-build homes are taking the lead. In an analysis of...

Revolution Brokers claim that bridging loan lending has increased by nearly 50% since the Bank of England base rates began rising...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed which postcodes estate agents with the highest turnovers reside. Registered property transactions over 3 months, the...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently shared where the nation’s best-performing estate agents are currently located. Estate agents that receive the best values...

Research by property maintenance solution provider, Help me Fix, has revealed that by adding an additional bedroom to your home could...

When it comes to boosting the value of properties, property features can make a major difference. Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that...

New homes PropTech platform, Unlatch, has recently been appointed as a partner to Third.i Group, the Australian-founded developer now dominating the...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, suggests that the property market will remain steady throughout the autumn. An analysis of property market data over...

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

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, reveals that properties which are slow to sell by analysing all homes that have remained on the...

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

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, recently commissioned a survey of 1,225 UK homeowners to reveal the biggest worries and concens homeowners...

While the nation’s estate agents are demonstrating an appropriate level of time and care to fully showcase the home they are...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently analysed the postcodes that are currently ranking as the nation’s home selling hotspots. The research revealed a...

The pandemic property market boom and resulting market backlog continue to impact the property transaction timeline, with the average time to...

Research from Benham and Reeves, a lettings and estate agent based in London, shows that despite homebuyers having to pay 50% over...

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

Limited housing stock is seeing one in 10 homes (11%) get snapped up within 14 days of entering the market –...

Despite being the quicker method of selling a home, property auctions are one of the least preferred methods for home sellers...

This week’s roundup takes a look at the latest in the mortgage market, from L&G’s latest addition to its lender panel...

Despite a more lethargic pandemic property market performance, a recent study by debt advisory specialists, Henry Dannell, has analysed sold price...

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, estate agent Barrows and Forrester discovers which Paddy’s-themed street names, from Guinness to Clover, command...

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

Property purchasing expert, HBB Solutions, revealed that the gap between the asking price expectations of the nation’s sellers and what buyers...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk has recently released its analysis of the time it’s taking to sell a home, with the...

New data from the UK property website, Rightmove, has found that March is the strongest month of the year for prospective...

A study by estate agent comparison site GetAgent.co.uk has found that the average homeowner in England and Wales achieved 98% of asking...

Retirement non-profit company Cognatum Estates provides advice for those who are considering selling and buying in later life. It is unquestionably a difficult...

More than three-quarters (79%) of mortgage brokers feel optimistic about how the new-build housing market will perform in 2022, new research...

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

A new study by Birmingham estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester, has uncovered how much properties could make in the current...

Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves have found that staging your home during the...

Recent research from the estate agent comparison site,GetAgent, has analysed how a house price boom has affected the cost of selling...

British house sellers are overpricing by as much as 41% when it comes to the price at which they list their...

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

New research by MoveStreets, the property portal made for the mobile generation, has revealed how a picture can do more than...

Bective, the sales, lettings and property management company, recently revealed how superstitions around the number 13 often lead to homebuyers paying less for properties. Traditionally it is considered to...

New research from estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk has found out which street names have proved the most popular with homebuyers across...

The threat of Covid remains a worry for the majority of home sellers when it comes to allowing prospective buyers into...

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

The latest mortgage search activity data from Legal & General Mortgage Club (L&G) shows signs that the market is beginning to...

Ahead of the Queen’s Birthday this weekend, estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester researched the sold prices of properties with...

New research from GetAgent has revealed which areas of the property market in England and Wales are seeing homes sell the...

Research from an all-in-one property platform suggests homebuyers do not sufficiently understand the processes which can contribute to a fast and...

With tomorrow’s Budget expected to be one of the most significant in recent history, fresh research by MoneySuperMarket reveals 74% of...

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

Pure Retirement has announced further enhancements to its website to support advisers in the current climate. With four product ranges now available,...

While obtaining a mortgage makes moving home a stressful experience, finding and securing a property is more anxiety-inducing to 46% of...

Paragon’s ‘Commercial Lending’ division provided 100% funding for a customer to acquire a development site with planning permission. The case – which...

The time it takes to sell a home across UK cities has hit a three-year high, according to Zoopla. Its September UK...

Nearly a quarter (23%) of mortgage intermediaries expect that consumers will choose to bypass advice and arrange their mortgage directly with...

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network held its largest bi-annual event on how members can use marketing effectively to grow their...

Knowledge Bank has launched a real time management information (MI) product that will give lenders insight into the mortgage criteria that...

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

The launch of retirement interest only (RIO) products by lenders provides a valuable alternative to the growing number of later life...

The proportion of homeowners selling up increased in May, as sellers tried to secure offers before the housing market’s typical summer...

It's only right and proper that as a mortgage adviser you spend most of your time helping your clients buy or...

One in five British homeowners purchased a property prior to selling their existing home, a new study conducted by CoverBuilder has...

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

Up to 18% of homeowner’s ready to climb the property ladder find it harder than buying their first home, according to...

First Complete and Pink have revealed that their mortgage, protection and general insurance sales all reached record highs in 2017. The two...

The adviser community has offered broad support to the merits of a standalone equity release qualification, according to a joint survey...

Buy-to-let investors have started selling off properties as Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown begins to bite. Demand is also likely to fall...

TMA has launched a new general insurance proposition that lets advisers quote and apply for residential household insurance from a panel...

More than four out of 10 pensioner landlords are seriously thinking about selling their buy-to-let property even though it offers them valuable...

Holloway Friendly has teamed up with Synaptic Software to provide its income protection policies through its online portal. It said this will offer...

The popularity of buy-to-let looks set to defy Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown with nearly three out of 10 over-55s planning...

Almost half of young home movers plan to wait until after the Brexit referendum to complete their property transactions. Most also believe...

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

Chancellor George Osborne's planned cuts to buy-to-let tax relief are the top worry for landlords thinking of selling up. The squeeze on higher rate...

One in five landlords say they will be forced out of business in the next two years by Chancellor George Osborne's...

Buy-to-let landlords are gearing up to offload their properties after waking up to the impact of Chancellor George Osborne's recent tax...

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

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 Bank of England has warned that the booming buy-to-let market poses a threat to the financial stability of the UK. It...

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

Recent figures show that the UK is currently facing a housing shortage, with the lowest number of properties available for sale...