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Last week Halifax - previously an outlier amongst major lenders - announced it was raising rates, following the likes of Santander,...

Halifax moved entirely in the opposite direction to its rivals at the very end of last week, cutting rates instead of...

Latest Bank of England data released in recent days shows net mortgage approvals for house purchases rose from 47,900 in October...

A study of 7,000 people by a specialist predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion by...

There’s been a flurry of rate cuts from lenders serving all sector of the market as a battle begins for market...

Lenders have reported the UK's biggest increase in mortgage defaults since 2009 - and they expect worse to come this autumn. The...

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

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

LendInvest has secured funding of up to £200 million from HSBC UK to bring further capital to its platform. With this new...

Mint Bridging has announced that it will consider the acquisition of Amicus Property Finance’s entire loan book. Following the news that Amicus...

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market in October, according to fresh research from e.surv. Its latest...

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

First-time buyers and others with small deposits took a greater share of the market last month than in August, according to...

Following its continued growth, Mortgage Brain has appointed three new members to its sales team. Josh Christie, Kosta Kostadinov and Sophia Smith...

Landlords have increasingly been switching to five-year fixed rate products over the past two years, new data from Commercial Trust Limited...

Legal & General Home Finance has become the biggest provider of lifetime mortgages in the first half of this year (H1). The...

Building society mortgage approvals totalled £57.8 billion in 2015, a rise of 10% by value over the year. The mutual sector now...

Access to the mortgage market is widening as lenders rediscover their appetite for higher-LTV lending. Lenders have partly been encouraged by Government...

There has been a sharp decline in the number of buy-to-let investors taking out two-year fixed rates. Two-year fixed rates made up...

Lloyds Banking Group has held onto its lead as the UK's biggest mortgage lender despite losing market share. Santander hopped above Nationwide to...

Building societies approved 189,000 mortgages in the first half of 2015, accounting for 29% of the total market. Societies also lent £26.4...