UK house prices were flat in November, pausing after a 0.5% rise in October, according to Halifax’s latest house price index.
The average UK property now stands at £299,892, a marginal monthly increase of £138 and a new record...
Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected residential rates, with reduced options available for new and existing customers.
Residential rates will reduce by up to 15bps...
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a joint Mutuals Landscape Report setting out their plans to support the...
Kensington Mortgages has cut rates across its buy-to-let products with 2- and 5-year deals lowered by up to 0.15% and 0.09% respectively.
Andy Bickers (main...
Together Financial Services has completed a £200 million private warehouse securitisation as the specialist lender continues to expand and diversify its funding base.
The new...
The introduction of an annual levy on property value above £2 million has highlighted the scale of adjustment theoretically required for many of London’s wealthiest homeowners.
New analysis from high net worth mortgage broker Enness Global suggests that prime...
Skipton has been named the happiest place to live in Great Britain, topping Rightmove’s annual Happy at Home Index for the first time.
The North Yorkshire market town ranked highest among more than 200 locations surveyed, with residents praising...
Sikoia, the automated customer verification provider, has formed a technology partnership with Yavia, the digital platform designed to simplify how brokers manage mortgage and protection cases.
The move links Yavia’s customer-facing app with Sikoia’s AI-driven document processing engine to...
Santander UK has reported a sharp rise in applications from solo first-time buyers following changes to stress rate and loan to income criteria earlier this year.
New figures from the bank show that individual first-time buyer applications rose by...
Gareth Lewis has spent the past seven years at MT Finance, guiding the specialist lender through periods of significant market turbulence and expansion.
In a...
Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...
UK Finance’s third quarter Household Finance Review shows mortgage lending returning to growth after a muted second quarter in which many buyers brought forward purchases ahead of April’s stamp duty changes.
Refinancing also rose sharply as more households moved off fixed-rate deals, though affordability pressures...
Younger people are often badged with some unfair stereotypes when it comes to protection - "they're not interested", "they don't care", "they won't engage"....
Yesterday’s Budget represented yet another decisive step in the dismantling of the traditional buy-to-let sector.
The Government has chosen to tighten the tax screw on private landlords yet again, with higher tax rates on property income, extended freezes to personal tax thresholds and a new...
Mortgage and protection firm Vickers Young has joined the Stonebridge network as it accelerates its plans for sustained growth.
Founded in 2012 by managing director Corby Macdonald, the Leicestershire business has grown from a sole adviser practice into a team of 12. It now plans...
