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The majority of buyers and sellers in the prime housing market will not be deterred by the upcoming General Election, claims...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving additional exposure to April’s long-term fixed-rate remortgage...

High end estate agency Savills has issued an update on prime markets in and around London and south east England. And it...

A growing appetite amongst buyers for family homes is helping to drive London’s high value prime market, an agency claims.  Benham and...

Jo Breeden, managing director of Crystal Specialist Finance, writes: In his recent speech, the Prime Minister scrapped the proposed changes to EPC...

It’s now one year since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated mini-budget, which acted as a catalyst...

There’s been a backlash from the mortgage industry following Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Eco U-turn last week.  In recent months a growing...

There’s almost complete unanimity amongst analysts that this week will see yet another Bank of England base rate rise - and...

MPowered Mortgages, the fintech mortgage lender using AI to speed up and simplify the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgagers, has...

Ever wondered how your tax money is distributed? Research from RIFT Tax Refunds has disclosed exactly where your tax goes, with the...

The FinTech mortgage lender using AI to simplify the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgagers, MPowered Mortgages, has recently expanded its...

Foreign buyers from the United States have been benefitting from a weakening pound to the greatest extent, the latest research by...

If you’re on the lookout for some new prime property around the UK, then you’re in luck because the latest research...

With votes in and Liz Truss elected as the new Prime Minister, many may have the question “what now”?  When it comes...

According to a leading property firm, the latest announcement that a specialist lender has been given a license to off 50-year...

If you’ve ever been to the capital, then you’ll know that there are plenty of high-end homes, some for sale or...

Recently, MPowered Mortgages, the fintech mortgage lender using AI to enhance the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgages, announced it has...

London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has revealed that homebuyer demand in the prime London property market has climbed on both...

The Prime Minister used a housing speech in Blackpool yesterday to outline plans for a wide-ranging review of the mortgage market and housing...

For many, the Easter holidays are now in full swing and with higher demand for holidays, it can be an expensive...

As far as the UK Government is concerned, the threat from COVID is over. In its wake, a new battle, the...

A study by specialist mortgage broker, Henry Dannell, has discovered that homes surrounding London’s royal parks command an average house price...

In a recent property market analysis, put forward by London-based lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves, market growth during the...

A study by Henry Dannell, a specialist mortgage broker, has discovered how London remains the nation’s million-pound property market hotspot despite a...

In new research conducted by London estate agent Bective, it has been revealed that the prime London rental market has benefited...

London estate agent Bective recently conducted a property market analysis. The findings show that London ranks third place for the third-largest...

Roma Finance has launched new bridging and development ranges with improved rates and enhanced criteria. The new bridging range, called RomaPrime, is...

Roma Finance completed a record month in May, reporting a 50% increase in pipeline business on top of the 100% increase...

Pure Retirement has announced the launch of its new flexible pricing methodology on the Classic lifetime mortgage product range. The new initiative...

Together has revamped its second charge mortgages to introduce new fixed-term products and its lowest ever rate on some secured loans. The...

Buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has officially closed its retail investment arm and exited the peer-to-peer lending market in favour of becoming...

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced two criteria changes across its near prime product range. Borrowers who have been in a Debt...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added two Shawbrook Bank products to its lending panel.   The products cater for second charge and...

Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of Paul Holt to its team of intermediary regional managers. Having worked at The Newbury...

Specialist lender, Pepper Homeloans, has cut interest rates across both its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges by up to 0.70%. All five-year...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has announced that it will distribute its product range via Black Book Finance. Launched last November, Black...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has announced it will distribute its full range of mortgage products through the specialist distributor and...

Members of the PMS Mortgage Club will have access to Magellan Homeloans full range of products, after an agreement was reached...

House prices in Greater London have topped £600,000 for the first time ever, new figures show. Prices increased by 14.9% over the...

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

Cash is now king in the prime London market with six out of 10 of purchases made by investors or second-home...

Transactions in prime central London picked up in March due to falling asking prices and the buy-to-let stamp duty surcharge. Latest research...

London is likely to remain attractive to overseas buyers regardless of the result of the Brexit referendum. Property buying agency Black Brick...

April's forthcoming stamp duty surcharge on investors has brought the prime central London property market back from the dead. Property demand has...

UK house prices could drop by 5% if the UK votes to leave the EU in the referendum on 23 June. Prime...

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,...

Property agencies report a surge in demand for London buy-to-let property ahead of the looming surcharge on stamp duty. But some fear...

Demand for property in London continues to soar as buyers rush to beat April's forthcoming stamp duty surcharge on investment properties. Both new buyer registrations...

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

The UK housing market is in for a bumpy ride next year as new property taxes hit sales and prices. Higher stamp...

House price growth in prime central London is grinding to a halt as higher stamp duty on expensive properties hits growth. Annual growth...

British buyers are "emboldened" in the London property market and now account for nearly eight out of 10 new sales. Overseas buyers account...

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

Nationwide Building Society is removing all standard valuation fees from its mortgage range. Customers will now be able to select any mortgage...

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

There has been a sharp fall in sales of million pound houses as the top end of the property market continues...

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

The prime central London property bubble appears to have burst as demand falls and a surge of new stock saturates the market. Demand...

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

The property industry has warned that Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to build 200,000 new starter homes won't be enough to keep...

Landlords have been warned of a sharp rise in sub-letting scams as sky-high demand for property gives unscrupulous tenants the opportunity to...

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

The prime central London property market has endured a "subdued summer" after the excitement of recent years. Annual price growth of 1.7%...

Two new sets of figures show the prime London property market has slumped in recent months after years of surging ahead. Analysis...

Investors have strengthened their grip on the prime central London property market and are now responsible for more than four out...

Property sales in prime central London property sales have been hit by stamp duty reforms with no sign of an immediate recovery. In...

While the London housing market drove UK growth in 2014, the capital should underperform the rest of the country this year,...

There has been a rush of buyers into prime central London property in the immediate aftermath of the General Election. There are...