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Older home owners taking equity release from their properties are, on average, £12,400 worse off today than they were last year,...

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association reveals that intermediary confidence has now recovered to its...

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

The latest residential sentiment survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests a currently-subdued housing market but with a more...

Atom, a UK app-based bank, has been accredited as a lender by the British Business Bank under the new Growth Guarantee...

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

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

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

Five major lenders - NatWest, Barclays, Accord, Leeds Building Society and HSBC - have all announced rate increases so far this...

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

UK house prices fell by 0.2% in March. Nevertheless, the annual rate of house price growth edged higher to 1.6% in...

Mortgage approvals jumped 7.7% in February to 60,383, and were 40% higher than they were a year ago, new figures from...

New data from Rightmove reveals that Thursday March 28 was the biggest day for the number of new sellers coming to...

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

Remortgagers, not buyers, are fuelling the increase in mortgage industry activity. That’s the view of Octane Capital following an analysis of Bank...

The number of mortgages offered to home buyers went up from 49,300 in November to 50,500 in December, against the normal...

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey is warning that ‘future shocks’ may yet derail economic recovery. In a session with MPs at...

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...

The Office for Budget Responsibility - part of the Treasury but operating independently of government - is forecasting house prices to...

The equity release market has seen growth for the first time in 12 months with quarterly increases in both new customers...

The buy-to-let sector has seen fixed rates fall and product choice grow month-on-month, according to the latest analysis by Moneyfactscompare. Overall buy-to-let...

New seller asking prices rise by just 0.2% (+£890) this month to £366,247, which is notably lower than the average increase...

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

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

2020 was a year when every sector needed to learn how to adapt to challenging circumstances and the mortgage industry seems...

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

Like most industries impacted by the Covid pandemic, the world of bridging finance has experienced a contradictory, sometimes stormy and altogether...

West One has launched an initiative to support the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) via its second charge mortgage range. The...

As we approach the end of what has been a difficult year, Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has confirmed that it will...

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

The principal issue we come up against as we go around the UK visiting all our brokers is a lack of...

The NACFB is sometimes perceived as being an Association of commercial mortgage brokers and asset finance brokers, forgetting the other 20%...

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,...

2016 will be a critical year for the property market as we see the impact of the global economic slowdown and...

Buy-to-let lending continued to race ahead of the mortgage market in September as investors ignore Chancellor George Osborne's forthcoming tax crackdown. Investors drove large quarterly and...

Buy-to-let sales through intermediaries have soared over the last year as the sector continues to boom. Sales in August 2015 were up...

UK house prices rose 9% in the past year after a strong summer that saw prices leap 3% between June and August,...

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

Last month was the strongest July for home sales since 2007 with a rise of 13% on June to 90,000. This is the first time...

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

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

House price growth in the UK's leading cities is set to hit 10% this year as the market recovery continues. The Hometrack UK...

Excellent buying conditions have lured Britons back into the overseas property market this year, with bargain property prices and historically low...