First-time buyers

50% rise in first-time buyers in the past two years

The number of first-time buyers rose by 22% in 2014, according to the annual...

Transactions fall to same level as last November

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £16.9 billion...

Aldermore celebrates Help to Buy anniversary

Aldermore has issued some revealing statistics about its Help to Buy customers, as it...

Rate cuts from the Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on three high LTV...

Majority earned less than the average home over past year

The average house in the UK earned more than the average worker in the...

CML: positive direction of travel for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has confirmed that gross mortgage lending reached £18.6...

Lending to higher LTV borrowers down 12%

E.surv has calculated that there was the smallest number of higher LTV borrowers last...

Surveyors expect SDLT changes to reverse sales dip

The latest RICS Residential Market Survey indicates that while national house price growth fell...

Gross advances up 13% year-on-year

The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the latest Mortgage...

SortRefer promotes its Stamp Duty-updated system

Online conveyancing portal SortRefer has changed its quotation system to reflect the changes to...

Chancellor reforms Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty Land Tax will be revised from midnight tonight. Chancellor George Osborne has announced...

The Autumn Statement in full

Mr Speaker, Four years ago, in the first Autumn Statement of this Parliament, I presented...

BoI UK launches intermediary pilot

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries is rolling out a pilot to sell mortgages in...

Nationwide wants Stamp Duty shake-up

Nationwide Building Society is calling for reform of the Stamp Duty Land Tax system. The...
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The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

Ministerial cock-ups could kill radical property taxes

At first it might appear that the mortgage industry and the housing sector as a whole should be cross with the Labour government. After all,...

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The pace of the UK’s buy-to-let expansion is slowing as landlords increasingly shift their...
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