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There’s been a bevvy of buy to let mortgage deal changes this week. Shawbrook has made a series of reductions across its...

Fall throughs are costing sellers some £909m a year - and that’s even on recent muted sales figures. Home Sale Pack has...

Recent economic data was reassuringly predictable. We learned that core inflation fell by fractionally more than expected while services inflation proved slightly...

The beleaguered construction sector - a good early indicator of later sales activity - has seen a welcome boost in some...

Some 40% of residential landlords with a mortgage - fixed, tracker or discount - are due to renew their mortgage rate...

Homebuyer appetites for new-build properties have dipped. Demand dropped 1.1 per cent in the last quarter according to analysis by easyMoney of...

Rightmove says the housing market needs a more innovative mortgage initiative than the 99 per cent idea floated by the government. The...

The buy to let mortgage sector has seen fixed rates fall to their lowest point since September 2022, according to analysis...

Average mortgage rates on the overall two- and five-year fixed rate deals have now been falling for six consecutive months. The overall...

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

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

Monthly interest costs have surged by 283 per cent since 2021 for landlords using interest-only mortgages, research shows. Octane Capital compared rates...

Falling swap rates - already falling over the past month - have dropped further following better-than-expected inflation news, triggering speculation over...

The number of Londoners leaving the capital to move elsewhere in Britain dropped back sharply in 2023, following two years of...

Two-year fixed rate mortgages have dipped below six per cent for the first time since June this year. Back in June there...

Homeowners are increasingly researching into mortgage repossessions online, signalling that many are worried about falling behind on their payments. The research by...

A new analysis of the new build housing market for next year suggests that eventually there will be a bounce, triggered...

Two prominent UK house builders have warned of sharply reduced volumes in the next year or so as buyers struggle to...

It’s now the tenth week that average rates of dropped, as the slow but steady downward trend of fixed-mortgage rates continues.  As...

The interest rate on the average five-year fixed mortgage has dropped below 6.0 per cent for the first time in nearly...

There is speculation that the recent spate of figures from the UK economy may prompt a war between mortgage providers as...

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

The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England meets on Thursday with the market expecting them to announce 0.5% raise...

A new mortgage market analysis by Octane Capital claims that the number of mortgage products available have dropped 41%, compared to...

Research by Credas Technologies reveals that the average Anti-Money Laundering (AML) fine has increased by 63.7% in the estate agency sector.  Although the fine...

The latest research from property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, revealed that some areas in England have seen up to £183,266 wiped off the...

The pandemic has had lasting effects on the property sector and market analysis from Total Landlord Insurance discloses that the average...

As a first-time buyer looking for your first home can be quite a daunting prospect, especially when it comes to figuring...

New research by rental platform, Rentd, shows the average price of rents continued to climb in England since the start of the...

This story originally appeared on Estate Agent Today, but has been reproduced here in full for the benefit of Introducer Today...

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

Introducer Today returns with a bumper mortgage roundup, this time featuring the latest industry views on mortgage approvals, new and extended...

New research by sales optimisation platform, Unlatch, shows that within the new-build sector help to buy homes has declined. Since 2013 Help to...

New-build homes are proving ever-popular among homebuyers, and the latest research by Unlatch has revealed where the nation’s demand for new-build homes...

A leading specialist in mortgage solutions, Henry Dannell, revealed that the number of homes owned with a mortgage or loan across the...

PEXA, the Australian-founded fintech, has announced its plans to launch in the UK this year, following significant progress in testing its...

New-build sales optimisation platform, Unlatch, recently revealed that over the last year the new-build property stock currently listed on the market...

New findings put forward by Estate and letting agent Barrows and Forrester shows that rental demand dropped throughout the last quarter...

Data released by independent equity release advisory service, Equity Release Supermarket (ERS), shows that there’s a continued desire amongst their customers to...

Perhaps the scariest thing to occur in the property market is the fall of house prices, with the latest property market...

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

Some areas of the UK market have seen house price growth slow substantially, suggesting they could be in for a rough...

Property buyers in certain cities could enjoy a hat-trick of savings via the stamp duty holiday, a reduced mortgage deposit requirement and...

Twenty7Tec provides another rundown on the mortgage market two weeks after lockdown 2.0 ended. Following its analysis of the mortgage market in...

Activity levels of members of the mortgage and protection network HL Partnership (HLP) are 32% higher than in the first quarter...

Despite Covid-19, the average mortgage value for purchasers is up 12.4% compared to the same period in 2019, according to data...

Brexit has caused UK house price growth to half since June 2016, according to property management company Apropos. The digital platform, designed...

The level of new-build properties being sold has picked up as we approach the end of the year, while sales across...

A vast majority of mortgage enquires come from people who have been refused a mortgage due to not being a ‘perfect...

‘Interest-only loans’ have maintained their place in the top five most searched-for criteria in August after making their very first appearance...

Bridging loan interest rates fell to the lowest level in Q1 2019, according to the latest data from Bridging Trends. It found...

One in six mortgage holders have been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? Mortgage...

A Brexit ‘uncertainty effect’ is washing over UK mortgage brokers after the largest drop in business volumes in more than two...

Intelenet Global Services has launched a new ‘Lending Suite’ to help banks generate mortgage offers in as little as 30 minutes. The...

The buy-to-let sector could be entering another period of stabilisation, according to recent analysis carried out by Mortgage Brain. The cost of...

Just over two months since the Bank of England cut the base interest rate to 0.25%, an array of lenders are...

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

The supply of rental properties plunged in the run-up to the new stamp duty surcharge on 1 April and further falls are...

The number of landlords planning to buy a new buy-to-let property has dropped by a third since the stamp duty surcharge...

Brokers have more choice than ever before with the number of mortgage products hitting an all-time high in March. However, new mortgage application...

Asking prices have hit a record high due to the rush of buy-to-let investors looking to beat the stamp duty surcharge. The...

Interest in purchasing buy-to-let properties has collapsed as new tax changes start to bite. The number of people planning to buy a...

Property experts have welcomed the Government's decision to scrap the 3% stamp duty surcharge on "granny flats". In the original version of...

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 are said to be "storming the housing market" as estate agents report an increase in the numbers trying to...

Mortgages costs continue to fall with fixed and tracker rates now cheaper than three months ago at various LTVs. The average two-year...

The housing market is facing a buy-to-let "storm" as investors rush to buy property before the stamp duty surcharge comes into...

A steep rise in debt since last summer 2015 has put more households under financial pressure, new research shows. Income and saving...

Higher stamp duty on £1 million plus properties has hit growth in prime central London and pushed it to the fringes...

House prices in England and Wales jumped £16,446 in the last year to hit a new record high of £290,640. This is...

Life is getting easier for first-time buyers as barriers to homeownership fall and government schemes help more climb on the property...

House sales to first time buyers accounted for nearly a third of total sales in October, the highest proportion since August...

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

November has seen the smallest seasonal drop in new seller asking prices since 2011, setting the scene for higher prices in...

A fall in the number of affordable homes being put up for sale has driven overall property availability in the UK...

The number of new properties coming onto the market across the UK increased for the second consecutive month in October. Online estate...

The number of people using an independent adviser to help with a remortgage has dropped by 28% this year, new figures...

The number of home loans being marketed to landlords has reached a new high, research has revealed. The latest Complex Buy to...

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

The number of landlords increasing rents for tenants fell in August, the first drop this year, new figures show. Only one in three...

One in five older people are considering downsizing but are being put off by a lack of homes and the cost...

The Bank of England has dropped another hint that interest rates are set to rise with departing policy maker David Miles...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is cutting rates on a number of its buy-to-let deals as rates across the market continue to slide lower. New figures...

Mortgage rates continue to fall despite reports that lenders are already pulling their cheapest deals in advance of the first Bank...

The number of house hunters has hit its highest level in 11 years while supply levels are continuing to fall. Sales to...

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

Almost one in three new buy-to-let mortgages have initial terms lasting at least five years as intermediaries place more longer-term business. Fixed...