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Despite the housing market slowdown, brokers are being warned that the autumn months of September, October and November have typically seen...

New figures relating to the government’s mortgage guarantee scheme shows significant numbers of people taking out high loan to value mortgage...

House Buyer Bureau reveal that transactions could drop by 17% in spring 2023 next year. The property purchasing specialist claim that the...

Responsible Life, a later life lending specialist, is reporting a 52% annual surge in lifetime mortgage sales, as retirees increasingly look...

The buy-to-let market has remained relatively stable despite the decline in overall mortgage business during Q3 2019, according to Paragon Bank. Its...

Many key indicators for home movers and first-time buyers remained either stable or only marginally changed when compared to the previous...

Since the Brexit vote, house prices have increased across the UK by 9.3%, with market uncertainty surrounding the exit being blamed...

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

The Mortgage Hut has seen a year on year rise of 30% in mortgage applications in August despite the traditional seasonal...

Members of ASTL have written approximately £3 billion worth of bridging loans in the last year, up from £2.8 billion for...

A significant rise in people re-mortgaging to improve their existing homes could hit the new-build property market during 2017, mortgage broker...

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

House prices in the three months to May were 9.2% higher than in the same three months a year earlier, according...

Residential property transactions plunged by almost half in April in the wake of a bumper March. The seasonally adjusted estimate fell by 45.2% last...

The supposed slowdown in the London property market is a “myth” as the majority of Londoners see prices continue to rise. While...

Demand for UK property has dipped for the first time in 12 months in the latest sign of housing market weakness. However,...

UK house price growth slowed more than expected in the three months to April, further evidence of a slowing property market. House prices in...

The surging remortgaging sector has helped to offset April's seasonal housing market slowdown, new figures show. Total valuations carried out in April rose...

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

Lending to both residential buyers and property investors soared over the last year but experts warn there is a slowdown in...

March saw a sharp drop in buy-to-let valuations activity as landlords ran out of time to beat the stamp duty surcharge on 1 April. Valuation activity dropped...

Buy-to-let investors were racing to beat the new 3% duty surcharge right up to midnight on 31 March as a frantic first quarter drew...

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

Buy-to-let rents are growing strongly outside Greater London with an average increase of 5.5% over the last year. Rents in the South-East grew fastest...

New figures show the housing market defying the traditional seasonal slowdown in December as mortgage approvals hit a two-year high. The number of...

London property prices rose at double the pace of the rest of the UK last year, new figures show. Prices in the capital...

The prospect of a base rate hike has receded even further after Bank of England governor Mark Carney said now is...

2016 will be a critical year for the property market as we see the impact of the global economic slowdown and...

Mortgage lending for house purchases slumped nearly 10% to £10.7 billion in November as the winter slowdown set in. Despite the dip...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases rose again in November as the market defied a seasonal winter slowdown. Loan approvals for house purchases...

Investment demand has picked up in prime central London after recent reports of a property slowdown in the capital. Newly-released third-quarter Land...

Two new sets of figures published today showing the housing market firing on all cylinders into the autumn. House in England and...

Chancellor George Osborne is under attack by critics who claim his recent stamp duty overhaul which has hit property sales and slashed revenues from...

The mortgage industry faces months or years of the increasingly tiresome "will they, won't they" interest rate hike game after a...

The mortgage industry can expect the first interest rate hike shortly after Christmas, experts say. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research...

The average London house price has leapt 9.6% in a year to £499,997 as the capital's market springs back to life. This reverses the recent...

There is further evidence of a slowdown at the top of the market as the pace of house price growth in...

Price growth in prime central London looks set to slow further as the property market faces a number of headwinds. Knight Frank has cut...

Mortgage brokers could see business levels decline as the prospect of an early base rate hike recedes. Fears that the Bank of...

House prices fell by nearly 1% in September as the annual pace of growth starts to ease off, new figures show. This...

Changes to the stamp duty system introduced at the end of last year have led to a slowdown in sales of...

Buy-to-let sales through intermediaries have soared over the last year as the sector continues to boom. Sales in August 2015 were up...

Residential housing market activity defied the summer slowdown to post strong growth in August. The latest HMRC Property Transactions figures for August 2015...

New figures confirm that buy-to-let continues to outperform the mortgage market but industry experts warn that the forthcoming tax crackdown may...

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said interest rates are likely to increase despite the deflationary impact of the Chinese...

Brokers bucked the traditional summer mortgage slowdown helped by the continuing boom in buy-to-let, new figures show. Overall lending totalled £16.4 billion, a...

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...

Mortgage regulators have given buy-to-let investors an unfair advantage over residential buyers and the balance needs to be redressed, a broker has claimed. Independent...

A sharp drop in new property supply is forcing house prices ever higher with the average asking price now just a...

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...