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Nationwide has joined a year-old campaign to speed up the home buying process through increased digitisation. The society has joined the Open...
24 July 2024
From: Breaking News
New research suggests that last year cash buyers accounted for the highest percentage of market activity seen in the last decade...
22 July 2024
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Estate agents’ body Propertymark has issued a report called ‘A Dickensian Legal Process’ exploring why it takes long and longer to...
15 July 2024
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The Nationwide has calculated that house buyers with mortgages are now pay far above the long term average. The lender, in its...
03 July 2024
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Mortgage-backed housing sales volumes over the last three months are still some 49% below this time last year. A new analysis by...
01 July 2024
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Overall, the total value of the UK housing market contracted by 21% in the year to March 2024, on the back...
19 June 2024
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Official Bank of England figures shows that net mortgage approvals for house purchases totalled 61,100 in April, little changed from 61,300...
05 June 2024
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An analysis of period property transactions reveals that demand has slumped as low as 39.2% of previous highs because of premiums...
03 June 2024
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Rightmove is predicting some 1.1m residential transactions this year - but it says the glacial pace of house buying in the...
22 May 2024
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Optimus has renewed its long-term partnership with fee-free mortgage adviser London & Country (L&C). Optimus claims that the new contract “will further...
22 May 2024
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Savills has today upgraded its five-year UK mainstream house price forecast to reflect the stronger than expected start to the year...
07 May 2024
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Keystone Property Finance has expanded its services by introducing further advances for landlords undergoing product transfers. As part of Keystone’s PT Plus...
29 April 2024
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The ESTAS awards event in October has a new principal partner. It’s Landmark Information Group, which includes Landmark Estate Agency Services, Searchflow,...
17 April 2024
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MPs on the all-party Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee want to quiz representatives from across the house selling community about...
17 April 2024
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Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest - along with Rightmove - have announced a strategic investment in Coadjute, a prominent PropTech business. This...
15 April 2024
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Recent economic data was reassuringly predictable. We learned that core inflation fell by fractionally more than expected while services inflation proved slightly...
04 April 2024
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Analysis from estate agency Yopa reveals that while the London market may be the worst performing in terms of house prices, it...
20 March 2024
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The estate agents’ trade body has made the unexpected move of calling on banks to cut mortgage rates. Rates are typically decided...
06 March 2024
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The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023 with house prices having dropped one one to...
29 January 2024
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Shawbrook has become the first bank in the UK to offer limited companies the ability to remortgage using the digital conveyancing...
17 January 2024
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Property lender Together is holding its third webinar for brokers in its Chalk Live series, offering new educational content along with...
17 January 2024
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Some 45 per cent of homebuyers cited in a survey say slow property lawyer response time is a key pain point...
15 November 2023
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Contributors to a quarterly specialist finance publication have reported a 15.3 per cent increase in bridging loan transactions, totalling £191m, during...
13 November 2023
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There’s been an alarming set of figures in the Bank of England’s latest Money and Credit report, which relates to September. Net...
08 November 2023
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Tomorrow’s King’s Speech, setting out the legislative agenda for the coming year, looks certain to include leasehold reform - and the...
06 November 2023
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Despite the housing market slowdown, brokers are being warned that the autumn months of September, October and November have typically seen...
11 October 2023
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The latest industry index on property fall throughs by quick-buy property firm House Buyer Bureau shows the problem accelerating across the...
04 October 2023
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It’s now one year since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated mini-budget, which acted as a catalyst...
04 October 2023
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Aldermore is to allow brokers greater flexibility to appoint conveyancers to support on complex buy to let transactions. The lender is to...
04 September 2023
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Legal and General Mortgage Club members will now be able to access LendInvest's new Residential Mortgages range, as well as its...
30 August 2023
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The latest market analysis by bridging finance specialists, Apex Bridging, has shown that £4.94bn was lent via bridging loan completions in...
18 April 2023
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There has been a a sharp increase in the number of property fall-throughs, according to House Buyer Bureau. Their latest industry index...
17 January 2023
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House Buyer Bureau reveal that transactions could drop by 17% in spring 2023 next year. The property purchasing specialist claim that the...
22 November 2022
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Chris Daly has been appointed managing director of Hampshire Trust Bank's specialist mortgages division. Daly was most recently head of origination, real estate finance...
03 November 2022
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Estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk, has revealed which postcodes estate agents with the highest turnovers reside. Registered property transactions over 3 months, the...
03 November 2022
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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...
20 October 2022
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Scotland is set to continue its domination over Britain’s new-build market, research by Warwick Estates claims, with the total number of...
27 September 2022
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According to the latest research by Revolution Brokers, £251 billion worth of properties have sold across England. The mortgage sector accounts...
22 September 2022
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After a hot season, research by property developer Stripe Property Group, has revealed that Newcastle United sits top of the Premier...
06 September 2022
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We don’t like being the bearer of bad news, but a market analysis carried out by mortgage broker, Henry Dannell, reveals...
18 August 2022
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PEXA has announced that Hinckley & Rugby Building Society and Shawbrook Bank will be the first lenders to transact remortgage cases...
11 August 2022
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While it seems like sold prices across England and Wales have slipped by -1.1% in the last year when compared to...
14 July 2022
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The pandemic property market boom and resulting market backlog continue to impact the property transaction timeline, with the average time to...
12 July 2022
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Limited housing stock is seeing one in 10 homes (11%) get snapped up within 14 days of entering the market –...
28 June 2022
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Despite being the quicker method of selling a home, property auctions are one of the least preferred methods for home sellers...
23 June 2022
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Research by Stipendium reveals that first-time buyers account for one in 10 of all property transactions across England. The property platform analysed...
16 June 2022
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The number of property sale fall-throughs, which crested during the pandemic, is predicted to fall by 12.2% in 2022, according to...
09 June 2022
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This week’s roundup takes a look at the latest in the mortgage market, from L&G’s latest addition to its lender panel...
26 May 2022
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International buyers are slowly returning to the London property market after three consecutive years of declining market activity, research by debt...
19 May 2022
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Over the weekend, Nat Daniels - CEO of Angels Media, the founder of the Today sites - penned this piece in...
17 May 2022
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Despite a more lethargic pandemic property market performance, a recent study by debt advisory specialists, Henry Dannell, has analysed sold price...
12 May 2022
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A recent survey carried out by property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions, has estimated that almost half of pandemic property purchases across...
28 April 2022
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Demand for chain-free homes has skyrocketed as buyers continue to pay a significant premium for a fast, efficient purchase, research from...
17 March 2022
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Recent property market analysis by London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, has found that Russian residential property purchases contributed...
10 March 2022
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Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, market delays have been on the rise. However, new research from GetAgent shows that these delays have...
01 March 2022
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A study by GetAgent.co.uk has shown how the nation’s property sellers could be left with a particularly sweet taste in their...
01 March 2022
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Property platform Boomin revealed which postcodes in England are the most and least affordable. Postcodes home to a gap of up...
22 February 2022
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PEXA, the Australian-founded fintech, has announced its plans to launch in the UK this year, following significant progress in testing its...
17 February 2022
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New build transactions have fallen over the last year in cities and towns across England and Wales, according to a recent...
15 February 2022
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London lettings and estate agent, Benham and Reeves, recently revealed which boroughs in the capital have the highest levels of homebuyer...
10 February 2022
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Research from the property platform, Boomin, has discovered that living on a Valentine’s related road name could provide a substantial boost...
10 February 2022
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The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...
03 February 2022
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New-build sales optimisation platform, Unlatch, recently revealed that over the last year the new-build property stock currently listed on the market...
27 January 2022
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Chain-free properties are proving to be very popular amongst homebuyers. That is according to estate agent comparison website GetAgent. Property chains involve a...
25 January 2022
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2021 proved to be one of the most hectic years to buy and sell a home. We witnessed prices soaring to...
13 January 2022
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Market analysis has revealed where house price growth could stutter should monthly interest payments start to climb as a result of...
11 January 2022
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A study by Henry Dannell, a specialist mortgage broker, has discovered how London remains the nation’s million-pound property market hotspot despite a...
11 January 2022
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For mortgage and protection advisers there is no disagreement that managing a bank of clients from the initial meeting until completion...
16 December 2021
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Throughout the pandemic, people across Britain have purchased new homes. Changes in lifestyle trends and schemes that make purchasing a new...
09 December 2021
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First-time buyers (FTBs) that have bought their home in the last 18-month period since March 2020 have experienced an increasingly expensive...
09 December 2021
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New research by the estate agent comparison site, GetAgent, has revealed how much money the UK government lost as a result...
21 October 2021
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New research from estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk has found out which street names have proved the most popular with homebuyers across...
24 September 2021
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Across England and Wales, many homebuyers have made use of the stamp duty holiday. The land tax discount encouraged many to...
01 July 2021
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As the first stage of the stamp duty holiday (SDLT) draws to a near close on June 30 2021, many homebuyers...
24 June 2021
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New research from GetAgent has revealed which areas of the property market in England and Wales are seeing homes sell the...
10 June 2021
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Despite market delays, over half a million homebuyers in England are set to benefit from the stamp duty holiday to the...
08 June 2021
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Last week Thursday (May 13) marked one year since the property market in England reopened after being hit with lockdown restrictions. Ascend...
18 May 2021
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Activity in the housing market continued to increase in March, with Legal & General seeing a record number of searches after...
29 April 2021
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The latest government Help to Buy (H2B) scheme could benefit over a half of all new-build homebuyers to get a foot...
25 March 2021
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Newbury Building Society has introduced a GoGreen Reward incentive to its self-build mortgage to encourage homebuilders to make conscious sustainable choices. The...
23 March 2021
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Over half a million transactions will save due to the stamp duty holiday extension by the time it ends in September...
18 March 2021
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Residential transactions across England and Wales fell by 41% in 2020 when compared to the previous year despite a boost in...
18 February 2021
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Almost half (45%) of UK buyers found the process so frustrating that they’ve been put off the idea of ever moving...
16 February 2021
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In the rush to complete property transactions by 31 March, it would be too easy to overlook putting buildings insurance in...
09 February 2021
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Like most industries impacted by the Covid pandemic, the world of bridging finance has experienced a contradictory, sometimes stormy and altogether...
02 February 2021
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The current stamp duty holiday has already saved homebuyers an estimated £817 million, with the potential to reach £1.5 billion before...
02 February 2021
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Financial institutions in the UK continue to invent new ways to enable their clients to access their products and services online....
28 January 2021
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Specialist buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans has introduced an online self-serve platform to allow customers to manage their mortgage account online 24/7. Landlords can use...
12 January 2021
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West One has launched an initiative to support the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) via its second charge mortgage range. The...
17 December 2020
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Knowledge Bank is partnering with the Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) to offer its criteria search system to FIBA’s members. The...
08 October 2020
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The level of new-build properties being sold has picked up as we approach the end of the year, while sales across...
04 December 2019
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The Mortgage Lender (TML) has been appointed to the panel of specialist mortgage desk Master Private Finance. Launched by mortgage and protection...
14 August 2019
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The Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) is currently spending an average of £6,000 more than in 2018 to help loved...
19 June 2019
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Over-55s now make up nearly 200,000 owner occupier housing transactions in England each year, according to the latest study from the...
11 April 2019
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First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market in October, according to fresh research from e.surv. Its latest...
16 November 2018
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Average property prices in the three months to October were 1.5% higher than in the same three months a year ago,...
09 November 2018
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The Bank of Mum and Dad is now seeking financial advice and guidance, according to new research from Key. The independent equity...
30 August 2018
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The proportion of sales made to first-time buyers rose by five percentage points to 29% in June, the highest figure recorded...