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April Mortgages has improved its capital raising criteria, to make it easier for borrowers looking to raise additional capital for gifting...

The number of people moving home increased by 10% in the first half of 2024, according to the latest Lloyds Bank...

Mortgage approvals on house purchases for June were 59,976 according to the Bank of England - down marginally (0.3%) from 60,134...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases fell slightly from 60,800 in April to 60,000 in May, says the Bank of England. Approvals for...

Total mortgage lending sat at just £50.5 billion during the first quarter of 2024, the lowest level seen since interest rates...

Overall, the total value of the UK housing market contracted by 21% in the year to March 2024, on the back...

Mortgage experts have criticised the Reform UK housing and tax policies as being superficially appealing but risking a return to the...

Official Bank of England figures shows that net mortgage approvals for house purchases totalled 61,100 in April, little changed from 61,300...

UK mortgage lending is forecast to grow just 1.5% (net) in 2024, according to the latest EY ITEM Club Outlook for...

There were 29,060 new mortgages taken out by older borrowers over 55 in the last three months of 2023 - down...

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

There’s been an alarming set of figures in the Bank of England’s latest Money and Credit report, which relates to September. Net...

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

Octane Capital expects the total level of UK mortgage approvals to be 1.570 million by the end of 2022. That is...

Research by Stipendium reveals that first-time buyers account for one in 10 of all property transactions across England. The property platform analysed...

Despite a strong start of the house price growth this year, the latest analysis from specialist property lending experts, Octane Capital,...

The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...

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

The mortgage roundup column returns to bring you the latest news on mortgage products coming to the market, featuring Furness Building...

A new study from equity release lender more2life has uncovered the UK regions where using equity release to fund a house...

An equity release advisory is reflecting on the shifts in equity release usage and behaviour in the first quarter of 2021. Research...

Average property prices in the three months to October were 1.5% higher than in the same three months a year ago,...

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

A new report from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has shown that more mortgages were handed to first-time buyers in...

Rates for borrowers looking to secure a longer-term deal have been slashed by Accord Mortgages, with a 0.15% reduction on selected...

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

House purchase values rose 20% in the final quarter of 2015 yet there was also a worrying drop in higher-LTV lending. The...

Accord Buy to Let has cut the rates on its range of three and five-year fixed rate mortgages by up to...

Accord Mortgages and Leeds Building Society have launched new five-year fixed-rate mortgages with added incentives. Intermediary-only lender Accord’s deals are aimed at borrowers...

Monthly mortgage approvals soared 24% year-on-year to £12.4 billion in December but brokers deny lending is getting out of control. Across 2015,...

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

The number of first-time buyers topped 300,000 in 2015 for the second year in a row, new figures show. This is a...

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

Platform has launched the lowest ever two-year fixed-rate at 90% LTV for intermediaries. The two-year deal is for house purchases and charges 2.24%...

Mortgage experts have warned that Chancellor George Osborne's latest assault on buy-to-let could trigger a housing market "boom and bust". The surcharge was...

A dip in the number of mortgage approvals for house purchases in September was offset by a sharp rise in remortgaging. The Bank...

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched what it claims is a unique “no fees and no hassle” mortgage covering all set-up fees including legal...

Two new sets of figures published today show that September was another buoyant month for the housing market. There was a 20% year-on-year...

A new report from the Bank of England shows that approvals of loans for house purchases hit a 2015 high in...

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

Homeowners rushed to remortgage in July amid signs that fixed-rate mortgages are now starting to creep up in price. Remortgaging jumped 29%...

First-time buyers accounted for nearly half of all mortgage-financed house purchases in the first half of this year. New figures from Halifax show they...

The number of remortgages grew strongly in May as homeowners took advantage of rising house prices and the lender price war...