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The Financial Conduct Authority has secured an order of £4m against an unauthorised mortgage broker and its associates who exploited vulnerable...

There’s speculation that there could be two more base rate cuts announced before the end of the year, following last week’s...

Brokers can look forward to a strong second half of 2024, according to an industry leader. Rob Jupp, group chief executive at...

The Nationwide regional house price indices are produced quarterly, with data for Q2 (the three months up to and incluingJune) showing...

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

A number of major mortgage lenders have announced rate increases just as the election campaign enters its second half. Barclays has increased...

The European Central Bank has cut its key deposit rate to 3.75% - so moving faster than the Bank of England...

The proposed merger between mortgage and financial service providers Nationwide and Virgin Money is to be investigated by the UK's competition...

The Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment Bill) successfully passed its legislative stages as part of the last minute ‘wash up’ of...

There’s a warning that the general election campaign will probably mean that the interest rate cuts hoped for in June will...

Rightmove is predicting some 1.1m residential transactions this year - but it says the glacial pace of house buying in the...

The latest RICS UK Residential Survey results shows the recent recovery in buyer demand has mellowed slightly, with the market impacted...

Interest rates for borrowers have shown mixed signs of both rises and falls over the past six months. Moneyfactscompare has analysed...

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

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

The average volume of UK properties listed for sale month-on-month rose by 58% in 2023 compared to a year previously, underscoring...

Leek Building Society has used its annual report and publication of accounts to mount a stout defence of its methodology regarding...

Downsizers across England and Wales could unlock an average £305,090 by moving from a four bed to a two bed home,...

A property agency has analysed the lending and housing markets to work out why so many mortgage applicants are couples. Benham and...

Leading agency Knight Frank says demand for new homes is generally robust, dependent upon the location and pricing.  It says its regional...

There’s no prospect of a rapid recovery for the housing market in 2024 despite some green shoots appearing. The warning comes from...

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

Two organisations have joined forces to create a new platform dedicated to providing holiday let mortgages. Holiday Cottage Handbook Financial Services claims...

The government has launched a consultation setting out plans to improve the transparency of land trust information. Land ownership through a trust...

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

Crystal Specialist Finance has conducted its Annual Survey with over 10,000 brokers for the second year running. The point is to see...

With the Bank of England maintaining base rate - as expected - at 5.25 per cent, the broker community ends 2023...

The nation’s landlords are responding to higher levels of mortgage interest rates by cutting their borrowing. The research comes from specialist property...

The Bank of England has held base rate at 5.25 per cent, with most analysts saying this is likely to be...

The Bank of England is expected to hold base rate at 5.25 per cent this week with many analysts expecting this...

Britain’s macroeconomic policy framework needs an overhaul to tackle the risk of an unsustainable ratcheting up of debt. That’s the view of...

Belvoir - fast becoming as big a force in financial services as in property - has snapped up a regional mortgage...

Metro Bank has undertaken what it calls “a major transformation of its mortgage origination platform” to streamline the process for both...

The latest house price index - this one from the Halifax - has triggered a huge wave of concern about the...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee does not meet until June 22 but that doesn’t mean there’s any let up...

Mortgage lenders and brokers have rarely had a higher profile than right now, when they are seen as key to the...

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

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed the busiest areas for estate agents and cities home to the most competitive markets.  The number...

The new homes sales progression and aftercare platform, Unlatch, reveals that Great Britain’s new-build housing market is worth almost £3 billion. In accordance...

Since Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget last Friday - which has caused a run on the pound and mass panic in financial markets...

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

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has carried out a study recently which revealed areas of the UK property market that have...

A recent study by Unlatch, the new homes sales progression and aftercare platform for developers and households, has disclosed which local...

Over the weekend, Nat Daniels - CEO of Angels Media, the founder of the Today sites - penned this piece in...

After 37 years on air, popular Australian soap opera Neighbours is due to come to an end, but a positive for...

Coinciding with International Women’s Day today (March 8), data from the property platform Boomin has found the wide disparity in property affordability...

Property lending expert, Octane Capital, recently released new findings about the global total volume of privately rented properties. The research concludes that the...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk has recently released its analysis of the time it’s taking to sell a home, with the...

In this guest piece, WFW London real estate partner Richard Hughes and senior associate Alexander Collis explain in-depth about green sustainable loans....

A study from London lettings and estate agent Benham and Reeves uncovered which London boroughs have been the busiest in the past...

In a recent UK housing market forecast, Rightmove uncovers what changes the industry can expect throughout 2022.  The UK's leading online real estate portal...

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

Leading mortgage industry trade magazine Mortgage Introducer has partnered with popular industry event, Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) to provide visitors with...

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

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has confirmed that it will be open for live events in 2021. The first event will return to...

Mortgage technology solution providers Twenty7Tec and Eligible ai have partnered to encourage advisers to use technology that will retain existing clients. The...

Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group chief executive officer of Mortgage Brain. Bilgrami joins the company after 11 years as chief...

Shawbrook Bank has strengthened its position in the residential and buy-to-let (BTL) markets with the acquisition of specialist intermediary mortgage business,...

West One Loans’ buy-to-let division has announced new product launches and lower prices to broaden its product range. The new range will...

Searches for ‘self-employed’ and ‘defaults’ became the most popular in December, according to new research from criteria search specialist Knowledge Bank. Knowledge...

Advisers have recently faced a relentless succession of challenges in the attempt to source consistent returns for clients in an environment...

Saffron for Intermediaries and MCI Mortgage Club have collaborated to offer club members access to the society’s range of specialist mortgage...

Connect for Intermediaries has added intermediary conveyancing firm Blacks Connect to its ‘Solicitor Referral Panel’. Blacks Connect is part of the full-service...

Less than 5% of tracker rate mortgages are available on the market, which reflects the current ‘lack of appetite’ for variable...

Data from Moneyfacts UK found the average two-year fixed rate at max 95% loan-to-value (LTV) is at a record low, while...

Pepper Money has finalised the terms to acquire 100% of the second charge lender, Optimum Credit Ltd. The purchase will see Pepper...

Shawbrook has announced the additions of Amanda Meadows and Shrena Patel to the commercial mortgages sales team as business development managers...

The Northview Group – which consists of the Kensington, New Street and Acenden brands – has announced the appointment of Mark...

Remortgaging has reached a record high, rising to 39% of all mortgages, according to The Mortgage Hut. The number of remortgages has...

Any company that sells a product or service and wants to survive and thrive needs to constantly come up with new...

Craig Brown has been appointed as the new director of Legal & General’s Intermediary division, set to lead its distribution in...

The value of specialist mortgage lenders’ annual lending has increased 19% per year since 2009, according to a new report from...

It's been quite the year politically. Brexit, Trump's election, the triggering of Article 50, a new French President and now another...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced that it will be hosting its annual series of Mortgage Club LIVE events for...

A new lender, which is aiming to target older borrowers, has received full regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Mortgages4Life,...

Back in 1980 I took out my first mortgage to buy a flat in Birmingham. The flat was very affordable and...

Skipton Building Society has removed its maximum loan size cap for first-time buyers. It said this follows a 20% increase in UK house...

Brokers and mortgage experts have given a thumbs down to Government proposals to introduce seven-day mortgage switching. The proposal, outlined in the...

Mortgage brokers have welcomed new technology-driven lender Atom Bank's intermediary-driven approach to mortgage lending. The Durham-based bank is set to launch residential and...

Mortgage rates look set to remain unchanged this year as the Bank of England held base rates once again yesterday. Analysts have pushed back...

The prospect of an interest rate hike in the UK may be closer than markets realise, according to a Bank of...

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

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said interest rates are likely to increase despite the deflationary impact of the Chinese...

UK house prices increased 5.7% in the year to June but London is trailing as the capital's property market continues to...

Yesterday's shock rise in core inflation could bring forward the date of the first Bank of England base rate hike, analysts...

Lenders have started to withdraw their best mortgage deals in advance of the anticipated hike in base rates, threatening rising costs across the...

Brokers are urging borrowers to remortgage as the age of record low mortgage rates draws to a close. Last week, Bank of England governor...

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

Scotland has voted to stay in the union – at least for now – and one question that investors will have...