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A new analysis of the housing market suggests approvals will rise following the first Bank of England base rate cut of...

UK house prices increased by 0.3% month on month in July, after taking account of seasonal effects.  This resulted in a slight...

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

Mortgage approvals for house purchases fell slightly from 60,800 in April to 60,000 in May, says the Bank of England. Approvals for...

Mortgage-backed housing sales volumes over the last three months are still some 49% below this time last year. A new analysis by...

Homebuyers are being gazumped due to lengthy property chains and delays in getting a mortgage, new research from Market Financial Solutions...

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...

Building societies' mortgage balances grew in the six months between October 2023 and March 2024, when they had declined across the...

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

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

The beleaguered construction sector - a good early indicator of later sales activity - has seen a welcome boost in some...

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

By Jonathan Samuels, chief executive of specialist property lender Octane Capital, writes: The Bank of England’s decision to hold interest rates on...

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

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

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

There’s been an alarming set of figures in the Bank of England’s latest Money and Credit report, which relates to September. Net...

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...

The Bank of England says net mortgage approvals decreased from 54,600 in June to 49,400 in July, although approvals for remortgaging slightly increased...

A new analysis suggests that mortgage approval levels will decline by 11 per cent annually come the end of 2023. Octane Capital...

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

Mortgage interest rates increased by 2.56% in 2022, with a sharp increase from 1.51% in January to a record 4.07% on...

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

According to property purchasing specialist, House Buyer Bureau, there has been a flurry of homeowners rushing to list their properties for...

Octane Capital expects the total level of UK mortgage approvals to be 1.570 million by the end of 2022. That is...

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

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

Mortgage approval levels could climb right through until Christmas as the pandemic property market boom shows little sign of slowing, new...

The latest Nationwide house price index, released yesterday morning, reveals that January has seen the strongest start to the year since...

Shawbrook Bank has announced the return of some of its pre-pandemic criteria following the easing of lockdown. The specialist bank was among...

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market in October, according to fresh research from e.surv. Its latest...

Average property prices in the three months to October were 1.5% higher than in the same three months a year ago,...

First-time buyers and others with small deposits took a greater share of the market last month than in August, according to...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is urging government to provide clarity around the future of the Help to Buy Equity...

The national month-on-month figures for new listings ‘for sale’ reached 9.4%, while the amount of properties sold sat at 6.2% in...

Fresh statistics suggest the UK’s mortgage market has been boosted again, with approvals for home lending up month on month and...

Small deposit buyers were given a New Year boost, with their share of the mortgage market increasing in January 2017. Small deposit...

The latest edition of the Bank of England’s Money and Credit Figures show mortgage lending was strong in the first quarter...

Brokers and lenders are celebrating a "bumper month" which saw borrowing in March 64% higher than one year earlier. Gross mortgage borrowing...

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

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

February saw the second highest monthly total of house purchase approvals since January 2014 as buy-to-let investors raced to meet April's...

The rush to complete buy-to-let purchases before April has driven mortgage approvals to a two-year high, property experts say. The number of...

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

Building society mortgage approvals totalled £57.8 billion in 2015, a rise of 10% by value over the year. The mutual sector now...

Mortgage brokers have suggested that the wheels may be coming off the buy-to-let bandwagon after new figures showed lending to landlords...

The housing market has been given a one-off boost from the surge in buy-to-let lending triggered by April’s tax changes. New figures show that...

New figures show the housing market defying the traditional seasonal slowdown in December as mortgage approvals hit a two-year high. The number of...

Monthly mortgage approvals soared 24% year-on-year to £12.4 billion in December but brokers deny lending is getting out of control. Across 2015,...

The shortage of properties for sale has hit house purchase approvals which fell more than 3% in December. There were 68,218 house purchase...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases rose again in November as the market defied a seasonal winter slowdown. Loan approvals for house purchases...

House purchase lending has leapt almost 20% in the past 12 months but first-time buyers remain locked out of the booming...

A dip in the number of mortgage approvals for house purchases in September was offset by a sharp rise in remortgaging. The Bank...

Mortgage approvals leapt 24% in the year to September driven by a resurgence in remortgaging. Remortgages jumped 40% over the year, against...

There is further evidence of a slowdown at the top of the market as the pace of house price growth in...

Two new sets of figures published today show that September was another buoyant month for the housing market. There was a 20% year-on-year...

The cost of fixed rate mortgages is set to plummet as lenders rush to meet 2015 lending targets. London estate agent Portico.com...

A new report from the Bank of England shows that approvals of loans for house purchases hit a 2015 high in...

Two new surveys published today show that the property market scaled new highs yet again in August. The RICS UK Residential Market...

Homeowners rushed to remortgage in July amid signs that fixed-rate mortgages are now starting to creep up in price. Remortgaging jumped 29%...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched a new scheme allowing borrowers to gain a mortgage approval in principle via its website. Borrowers can...

The number of first-time buyers plunged more than 27% in the year to June, with no sign of a post-election bounce. There...

The number of house-purchase approvals soared past 72,000 in June, the highest level since January 2014. Figures from chartered surveyor e.surv’s Mortgage Monitor...

The number of remortgages grew strongly in May as homeowners took advantage of rising house prices and the lender price war...

Brokers have welcomed new official figures showing that house prices in England and Wales are within a whisker of their all-time high. House...

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...

The value of remortgage lending slumped to a two-year low in March after falling 8% over the last 12 months. Total gross...