Propertymark: New build prices slide in key regions

Average asking prices for newly built homes in the South West fell sharply over the past year, dropping by £33,120 compared with October 2024, according to new figures from Propertymark. Yorkshire and Humberside recorded a near-identical decline, with average...

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OneFamily renews call for lifetime ISA reforms to help first-time buyers

OneFamily has renewed its call for reforms to the lifetime ISA, urging the government to raise the £450,000 property price cap and adjust the...

Landlords pin hopes on commonhold to curb rising charges

Landlords are broadly optimistic that a shift to commonhold could lead to lower service charges and better-run blocks, according to new research from Landbay. The...

Access FS adds 3mc to mortgage panel to support complex cases

Access Financial Services has added 3mc to its mortgage panel in a move aimed at giving advisers greater flexibility when handling complex residential and...

Somo marks fifth year of Black Friday promotion

Somo has launched its latest Black Friday promotion, with last year’s campaign delivering a 43% rise in completed deals and average borrower savings of...

TMW reduces individual and limited company buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates across a selection of buy-to-let products today. The latest reductions, of up to 0.20 percentage points, apply to both individual and limited company borrowing and span one-, two- and five-year fixes at up...

Time Finance earns multiple placings in Best Companies rankings

Time Finance has secured several places in the latest Best Companies rankings, underscoring its efforts to build a supportive workplace and strengthen employee engagement across its national network. The independent lender was listed nineteenth among financial services firms and...

Over-55’s call for stamp duty abolition ahead of Autumn Budget

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver the Autumn Budget over-55s are making their priorities clear with stamp duty reform topping the list. New research from Audley Villages shows that two in five (40%) over-55s – equivalent to 8.7...

Barclays cuts five-year fixes again as lender pushes for market-leading position

Barclays is making further reductions across its residential mortgage range, with five-year fixed rates falling by up to 30bps from tomorrow, 18 November. The latest cuts take its pricing to what the bank believes are market-leading levels across several...

PROFILE

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of the UK property market and helping industry understand how it...

INDUSTRY COMMENT

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

The 12 Days of Christmas: Staying front of mind when clients go quiet

December has long been a quiet month for mortgage advisers. By mid-November, many client conversations slow or pause entirely, often with the familiar refrain:...

Why UPRNs and data standards are central to the next generation NLIS

In October 2025, through the Fourth Round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF), Government’s Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) has awarded Land Data a grant...

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BUY-TO-LET

Scottish rent controls blamed for surge in annual rent hikes

Scotland’s rent control regime has led to a sharp rise in the proportion of...

Santander makes third round of November rate cuts as pricing drifts lower

Santander will cut a wide swathe of its residential and buy-to-let pricing next week,...

Metro Bank cuts rates and returns to 80% buy-to-let lending

Metro Bank has made further cuts across its residential, near-prime and buy-to-let product ranges,...

Landbay opens Premier buy-to-let range to individual landlords

Landbay has widened access to its Premier buy-to-let products, allowing individual landlords to apply...

UK Finance: Mortgage arrears fall but repossessions rise

Mortgage arrears across the UK fell in the third quarter of 2025, even as...

ModaMortgages cuts standard and limited edition buy-to-let rates

ModaMortgages, the specialist buy-to-let lender owned by Chetwood Bank, has reduced rates across its...

Foundation trims BTL rates and adds new discount options

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a series of rate cuts and new discount products...

Paragon unveils streamlined multi-property buy-to-let application

Paragon Bank has introduced a new multi-property buy-to-let mortgage process that allows landlords to...

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FIRST-TIME BUYERS

House prices slide as wealthy buyers brace for Budget tax raid

House prices have recorded their sharpest November fall in more than a decade as wealthy homeowners put moves on ice ahead of a Budget expected to target high-value properties. New figures from Rightmove show average new seller asking prices dropped 1.8% (£6,589) this month to...

Zoopla calls for abolition of stamp duty in evidence to MPs

Zoopla has urged MPs to consider abolishing stamp duty to boost housing mobility and...

Barclays unveils 95% LTV mortgages for new build

Barclays has expanded its support for homebuyers by launching 95% loan-to-value mortgages for new...

Housing market stalls as Budget fears weigh on buyers and sellers

Britain’s housing market slowed sharply in October as jitters ahead of the Autumn Budget...

London property market worth £2.6 trillion as affordability pressures curb price growth

The combined value of homes across London has surged to £2.64 trillion, according to...

OPINION

AGENT VIEW: I know I’m not a mathematician but to me 6.5 x is the new 3.5 x

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, as they say, and in an era of creeping inflation, job insecurity and the menacing spectre of...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate, lender and term, yet the question of how those payments would be met if a borrower’s income stopped isn’t always...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

DISTRIBUTION

Primis adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Primis has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving advisers within the network...

LSL appoints Serco’s David Tilak as Chief Financial Officer

LSL Property Services has appointed David Tilak as its new Chief Financial Officer and...

Masthaven joins TRM panel to widen access to bridging finance

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has added Masthaven Finance to its lender panel,...

L&G strengthens lender relationships with new strategic appointment

Legal & General’s Mortgage Services business has appointed Vicky Windsor as strategic relationship manager...

Glenhawk joins The Right Mortgage lender panel

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has added short-term property finance specialist Glenhawk to its lender panel, expanding the options available to advisers across both regulated and unregulated bridging. The move gives member firms access to Glenhawk’s range of short-term funding products, designed to support...