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A new survey suggests that almost half a million Britons are set to miss a mortgage payment in the next six...

Suffolk Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to its Interest Cover Ratio assessment for buy to let and holiday let...

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

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says first time buyers could benefit from a "revolution in home ownership" with 25-year fixed-rate mortgages. Reeves says...

The Family Building Society has commissioned the London School of Economics to explore the UK’s housing. Its report - called A Road...

Approaching a third of people are struggling to meet loan repayments of all kinds because of the cost of living crisis. That’s...

There’s been a sharp decline in household financial confidence in the UK according to the latest UK Finance sentiment survey. The Q3...

The chief executive of Winkworth estate agency chain says this week’s Autumn Statement must see the reinstatement of Mortgage Interest Tax...

Global credit intelligence provider Pepper Advantage, which has a 100,000+ UK residential mortgage portfolio, says arrears in this country have seen...

Pressure on mortgage holders is leaving Briton struggling to cope with their mental and physical health according to a wellbeing service...

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

Brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn as a...

High profile specialist lender Shawbrook has unveiled two new mortgage products for its Buy to Let, Commercial and Semi-Commercial ranges.  The offerings...

The Bank of England’s latest stress test of the financial system suggests that UK's eight largest lenders could survive a worst...

Nationwide says the sharp rise in the costs of mortgages is causing a "significant drag" on the housing market - but...

Pepper Advantage, a global credit intelligence company with over $60 billion in assets under management, has published a gloomy report on...

Mortgage holders swallowed another bitter pill last week when the Bank of England raised interest rates for the tenth consecutive time. The...

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

A recent change in mortgage rules that required lenders to check whether homeowners could afford repayments at higher interest rates has...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely due to experience some difficulties being approved for loans. It was stated...

Over half of those working within the property sector are experiencing higher levels of fatigue or stress due to an increase...

Nearly two-fifths of UK homebuyers have experienced a property purchase fall through due to mortgage delays, new research by Butterfield Mortgages...

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has discovered that the vast majority of UK homebuyers want to see the practice of gazumping made...

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

New research from The Mortgage Lender (TML) reveals that 34% of UK adults planning to buy a home in the next...

First-time buyers (FTBs) that have bought their home in the last 18-month period since March 2020 have experienced an increasingly expensive...

In this guest piece, Uswitch compiles a list of common occurrences that can impact a credit score, along with potential remedies...

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

New data has found that 89% of mortgage advisers believe first-time buyers need more education on purchasing a property and what...

Over the last ten years, the mortgage market in the UK has changed significantly. Alongside increased regulation of the industry, stricter...

Newly-launched brokerage Lloyd Wells Mortgages is aiming to make the homebuying process hassle-free for first-time buyers, buy-to-let investors and remortgagers. The Bristol-based...

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

Failure to seek expert advice is leaving buy-to-let landlords at risk of high tax bills that could have been avoidable, according...

Connect for Intermediaries has launched new tools, features and expert guides in line with its brand-new website. Boasting over 160 different lender...

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

To work with lending stress tests, Newbury Building Society has launched a buy-to-let (BTL) affordability calculator which takes top-slicing into account. The...

The number of expats looking for buy-to-let (BTL) mortgages to buy property in the UK has soared over the past year,...

The so-called Bank of Mum and Dad will lend 23% more funds in 2017, putting it on a par with the...

The £15 million supplementary levy imposed on mortgage brokers by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will hit the best-qualified brokers...

A new mortgage calculator is to allow prospective buyers considering shared ownership to work out the total cost of purchasing a...

Newcastle Intermediaries has become the latest lender to announce it is raising its stress test levels for buy-to-let mortgages. It is increasing...

Increases in buy-to-let lenders’ stress test levels should not be viewed as an ‘Armageddon moment’ for the sector, an industry expert...

Lloyds Bank has unveiled a new “hassle-free” mortgage designed to make moving easier and cover the upfront costs. The deal includes free...

Mortgage brokers have until the end of the year to enter the ESTAS Mortgage Broker Awards for 2015. National and regional brokers...

Buying and moving into a new house is a stressful business at the best of times, but people invariably add to...

Brokers and analysts don't expect base rates to rise until at least 2016 after the Bank of England held base rates...

Brokers have welcomed the absence of fresh controls on residential borrowing in latest Bank of England Financial Stability Report. That is in...