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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...

Despite a sharp fall in the number of homes bought by landlords in 2023, the number of limited companies set up...

Mortgage rates are predicted to fall next year as lenders take advantage of cheaper funding, after figures show that average swap...

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

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

High interest rates are worsening the affordability issues at play in the housing market, the Halifax admits. It says that downward pressure...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association wants the government to give additional support to landlords It says the cumulative effects of regulatory and...

In this guest piece, Adrian Plant, director of Shared Ownership at Leaders Romans Group and Calum Toone, mortgage advisor at Mortgage Scout, delve into the...

The Prime Minister used a housing speech in Blackpool yesterday to outline plans for a wide-ranging review of the mortgage market and housing...

Nisha Vaidya, mortgage expert at Uswitch, explains how homeowners can use low-interest rates to their advantage and help make their mortgage more...

Mortgage technology solution providers Twenty7Tec and Eligible ai have partnered to encourage advisers to use technology that will retain existing clients. The...

2021 looks set to be another year of change in the mortgage market, with the second charge market seeing the biggest...

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) is asking members to consider the Bank of England’s (BoE’s) warning about lenders cutting...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage exclusively through Legal & General Mortgage Club. Members of...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has increased its loan to income (LTI) multiplier across its residential range for applications where the...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has welcomed Hinckley & Rugby Building Society to its panel. Hinckley & Rugby’s range of mortgage products...

Accord Mortgages used the beginning of February to launch five new options to its offset range. The intermediary-only lender’s new measures...

Borrowers taking out an offset mortgage have a few days left to be given a helping hand by Accord Mortgages. The...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched the lowest fixed rate mortgage on the market, a two-year deal charging 1.17%. It is available to borrowers...

The surging remortgaging sector has helped to offset April's seasonal housing market slowdown, new figures show. Total valuations carried out in April rose...

Just one in five of the UK’s landlords believes there is still money to be made in the buy-to-let market, new...

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...

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a range of competitive 10-year fixed-rate mortgages charging from 2.99%. These including a 10-year fixed offset mortgage,...

Buy-to-let lenders continue to slash their mortgage rates helping landlords offset Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown on property investing. The average two-year...

Chelsea Building Society has launched a competitive new fee-free offset range aimed at borrowers who want to reduce the upfront costs...

The number of offset mortgage deals on the market has fallen to a five-year low, new research suggests. And the decline is...

Chancellor George Osborne's stamp duty changes saved homemovers more than £4,500 on average last year, new figures show. The Chancellor cut stamp...

Accord Mortgages has extended its two-year mortgage range by launching new deals for borrowers with higher loan sizes. The intermediary-only lender, part of Yorkshire Building...

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

The Labour party has outlined plans to impose further cuts to tax breaks for landlords and introduce rent controls to keep...

Accord Mortgages has launched a range of fee-free fixed rate mortgages aimed at cutting the cost of buying or remortgaging. Landlords can...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched the only range of four-year offset mortgages available on the market today. It said this followed a...