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Rightmove says the average first-time buyer mortgage payment is nearly £150 lower than the mortgage rate peak in July 2023.   Rightmove’s weekly...

Extra help for first-time home buyers is on the way as Lloyds Banking Group increases the amount prospective homeowners can borrow,...

Nationwide says UK house prices fell by 0.2% month on month in August, after taking account of seasonal effects, but the...

Hamptons analysis of Countrywide estate agency data shows that in the first half of 2024, Londoners purchased 33,130 homes outside the...

New data from Santander shows that parents wanting children to attend one of the top 500 state primary schools outside of...

Bridging loan books continued to grow to record levels in the second quarter of 2024, reaching nearly £8.4 billion, according to...

There’s no question that fixed rate mortgages are the product of choice among the majority of borrowers. It’s not just the...

Portfolio landlords seeking a new mortgage or remortgage are being warned of growing personal guarantee risks. Purbeck Insurance Services claims personal guarantee...

Digital property pack provider Moverly has analysed the average time it takes to sell a home in 12 countries - and...

A monitor of the bridging sector suggests business is growing - mostly because of delays in the mainstream property conveyancing sector,...

New research suggests that last year cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the last decade...

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

Price growth in high-value prime areas has been put on hold given uncertainty surrounding the General Election, according to the latest...

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

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

Analysis by an estate agency shows that since the 1980s, house prices have climbed by an average of 5.4% in the...

Optimus has renewed its long-term partnership with fee-free mortgage adviser London & Country (L&C). Optimus claims that the new contract “will further...

It might look like house prices have stabilised, staying relatively flat over the first four months of 2024, but at least...

Mortgage lending has fallen by -28.6% in the past year, according to a new analysis. Octane Capital analysed gross mortgage lending data*...

Jonathan Samuels, chief executive of Octane Capital, believes that with the property market now showing early signs of a return to...

Fall throughs are costing sellers some £909m a year - and that’s even on recent muted sales figures. Home Sale Pack has...

A property software business says its research shows that the housing market revival is driven by the premiums levied on new...

New research shows that sellers in Wales are likely to be hit hardest by a down valuation, with the average home...

FinTech company Mortgage Brain has struck a strategic partnership with SPF Private Clients, a whole-of-market mortgage broker. The deal caters for a...

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

There are clear signs the commercial property market is adjusting to today’s high interest rate environment according to specialist lender Together. Its...

New research from Aldermore suggests that some 55 per cent of prospective first time buyers are currently seeking to raise a...

The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023 with house prices having dropped one one to...

Property lender Together is holding its third webinar for brokers in its Chalk Live series, offering new educational content along with...

Some 74 per cent of residential buy to let landlords feel confident about the performance of the property market over the...

The number of Londoners leaving the capital to move elsewhere in Britain dropped back sharply in 2023, following two years of...

The Bank of England says there was £18.8 billion of mortgage borrowing in arrears in the third quarter of this year. That’s...

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

Two-year fixed rate mortgages have dipped below six per cent for the first time since June this year. Back in June there...

Low loan to value ratios from mortgage lenders are leaving an estimated 90,000 new build homes empty across the UK as...

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

Searches for interest-only mortgages rose a hefty 51 per cent in the past month as buyers seek to improve affordability. Research data...

Despite the housing market slowdown, brokers are being warned that the autumn months of September, October and November have typically seen...

The latest industry index on property fall throughs by quick-buy property firm House Buyer Bureau shows the problem accelerating across the...

The interest rate on the average five-year fixed mortgage has dropped below 6.0 per cent for the first time in nearly...

The head of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker has controversially told landlords that the scrapping of Section 21 eviction...

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...

Research from eXp UK, the network of personal estate agents, has revealed that in 22 UK cities, house prices are continuing to...

The latest market analysis by specialist property lending experts, Octane Capital, reveals that recent uncertainty in the property market during the...

Homebuyer confidence is higher than was expected at the end of 2022, according to a leading mortgage broker. Richard Campo, founder of...

There has been a a sharp increase in the number of property fall-throughs, according to House Buyer Bureau. Their latest industry index...

Although the property market is starting to slow, Stripe Property Group claims demand for new-build homes are taking the lead. In an analysis of...

Revolution Brokers claim that bridging loan lending has increased by nearly 50% since the Bank of England base rates began rising...

House Buyer Bureau reveal that transactions could drop by 17% in spring 2023 next year. The property purchasing specialist claim that the...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, recently analysed property market performance to reveal the time it takes for agents to secure buyers. The...

While Halloween may be the time of year when homeowners want to shout about their haunted house, the latest research by...

Alliance Fund has revealed that the secret property market in Britain experienced £30.9 billion worth of property transactions in 2021. This figure is ranked...

Research by property maintenance solution provider, Help me Fix, has revealed that by adding an additional bedroom to your home could...

A recent survey by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, reveals the current homebuyer and seller sentiment. Many participants revealed feelings that...

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

The latest research by Alliance Fund shows that the government’s decision to cut stamp duty could boost new housing delivery by 16%. The changes...

Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, suggests that the property market will remain steady throughout the autumn. An analysis of property market data over...

Scotland is set to continue its domination over Britain’s new-build market, research by Warwick Estates claims, with the total number of...

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

An interesting notion to contemplate has recently been dissected by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, which looked at what the...

Sector data analysis and insight by Credas Technologies, the leading identity verification checks provider, shows that UK estate agents are contributing...

Equity release allows homeowners aged 55 and over to gain access to the value of their property by turning it into...

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, claim that buyers and sellers are having to negotiate an £8,000 reality gap due to down...

In the tough current economy, British homebuyers will cut their asking price expectations by as much as £150,000 to attract a...

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

Estate and lettings agent, Barrows and Forrester, recently analysed property sales volumes from the start of the pandemic in January 2020 until...

While the nation’s estate agents are demonstrating an appropriate level of time and care to fully showcase the home they are...

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

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

The pandemic property market boom is causing many homesellers to enter the market with a little too much enthusiasm when pricing...

Since seeing a pandemic inspired boost back in 2019, the latest research by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that...

Despite the London market trailing the rest of the UK where the pandemic house price boom is concerned, research from London...

After the phenomenal win, England was crowned UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 champions after the 31-game tournament came to an end with...

Although the property market is excelling, sustained levels of buyer demand have caused pertinent delays at the back end of the...

Giraffe 360 have discovered that, when marketing a rental property, adding a floor plan to the listing can significantly boost the rental...

As a first-time buyer looking for your first home can be quite a daunting prospect, especially when it comes to figuring...

While it seems like sold prices across England and Wales have slipped by -1.1% in the last year when compared to...

The pandemic property market boom and resulting market backlog continue to impact the property transaction timeline, with the average time to...

Research from Benham and Reeves, a lettings and estate agent based in London, shows that despite homebuyers having to pay 50% over...

In the last decade, the property market across England and Wales has witnessed £2.7 trillion added in value, a 67% increase...

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

Limited housing stock is seeing one in 10 homes (11%) get snapped up within 14 days of entering the market –...

Since the pandemic property market boom, recent research by YourBusinessNumber has disclosed that one in three property professionals have taken time...

A portion of the market activity accounted for by foreign buyers has been in a slow decline since 2018, Credas Technologies,...

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

The average stamp duty payment on buy-to-let (BTL) homes has increased by £11,848 in England, and almost 1,000% higher than that...

The UK property market recorded the highest ever number of anti-money laundering (AML) checks during the first quarter of 2022, a...

This story originally appeared on Estate Agent Today, but has been reproduced here in full for the benefit of Introducer Today...

The number of property sale fall-throughs, which crested during the pandemic, is predicted to fall by 12.2% in 2022, according to...

The UK is leading the way when it comes to the might of the mortgage sector and the number of properties...

New findings by Giraffe 360 reveal that virtual tours continue to receive high levels of demand. At the height of the pandemic,...

International buyers are slowly returning to the London property market after three consecutive years of declining market activity, research by debt...

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

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

Despite a more lethargic pandemic property market performance, a recent study by debt advisory specialists, Henry Dannell, has analysed sold price...

The most recent data released from the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed that the average home seller achieved an...

Property developer, StripeHomes, announced that in the last year the value of new homes delivered has fallen by -6.7%. StripeHomes were able...

Often, we are sold the dream of settling down with a partner and purchasing our dream house together – but, what...

Introducer Today returns with a bumper mortgage roundup, this time featuring the latest industry views on mortgage approvals, new and extended...

A recent survey carried out by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has estimated that almost half of pandemic property purchases across...