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

April Mortgages has rolled out its range of longer-term fixed rate mortgages to all brokers at SPF Private Clients.   SPF Private Clients...

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

There was good news over the weekend as rates reductions announced late last week kicked in. Barclays has cut a number of...

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

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

Falling swap rates - already falling over the past month - have dropped further following better-than-expected inflation news, triggering speculation over...

SPF Private Clients has opened new offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. The Singapore office is to be headed by Scott Mitchell,...

The Howden Group, which acquired leading UK mortgage broker SPF Private Clients last year, is expanding further into the mortgage market...

Mortgage approvals rose by just over three per cent from 49,000 in April to 50,500 in May according to new Bank...

The total value of new mortgages set to be handed out in the coming months reached its highest level since 2007...

Major high-street bank HSBC has announced that it is expanding the availability of its mortgages through four additional brokers. The new brokers...

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

Buy-to-let mortgage sales surged by 163% in the year to March as landlords raced to beat the new stamp duty surcharge...

UK house price growth slowed more than expected in the three months to April, further evidence of a slowing property market. House prices in...

Gross mortgage lending surged in March due to the buy-to-let let boom but transactions now look set to drop by 10,000 a...

UK house prices rose 7.6% in the year to February and property experts expect the "unrelenting" growth to continue. This marked a...

HSBC is offering mortgages through three new brokers in a bid to widen access to its mortgages. This follows its successful partnerships...

Brokers have welcomed latest Bank of England statistics that show a jump in mortgage approvals in February. The increase was partly down to...

Gross mortgage lending surged 38% in the past year to hit £13.6 billion last month, the highest figure for nearly eight...

Brokers say the housing market is "buzzing" as latest Halifax figures show activity rebounded in December. Prices rose 1.7% in December, reversing...

SPF Private Clients (SPF) has announced a new team specialising in mortgages for high value new-build homes. SPF New Homes has been...

The property market is set for a strong finish to 2015 after a healthy 8% rise in house purchase lending in...

Chancellor George Osborne isn't alone in launching an attack on buy-to-let, Bank of England governor Mark Carney is also muscling in on the act. Carney...

Mortgage brokers have attacked the Chancellor’s "truly aggressive attack" on buy-to-let in his Autumn Statement and Spending Review yesterday. George Osborne punished...

UK house prices increased by 6.1% in the year to September 2015 with London and the South once again leading the...

The mortgage industry faces months or years of the increasingly tiresome "will they, won't they" interest rate hike game after a...

Mortgage lending is enjoying its best spell for seven years after surging 12% year-on-year to £61.4 billion in the third quarter. The...

The number of mortgages for £1million or more has jumped by one-fifth in the last year. The sharp increase has been driven...

August was the strongest month for gross mortgage lending since the financial crisis with loans totalling £20 billion. That is 12% higher...

The mortgage market enjoyed a buoyant June with a resurgence in new lending and remortgaging, with buy-to-let leading the charge. House purchase...

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

Mortgage approvals hit a 14-month high in May after rising 4% year-on-year, according to new figures from the British Bankers' Association. It said 42,530 mortgages...

Record low interest rates couldn't prevent a decline in lending and house prices in April. UK house prices increased by 5.5% in...