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New research suggests investment buyers with cash can secure chunky discounts on residential properties. Octane Capital analysed house price data for both...

The number of prospective sellers contacting estate agents to arrange valuations ahead of sale hit an all-time high in January, says...

UK housing costs hit £200 billion for the first time in 2023, according to the latest research by the property firm...

Savills has revealed the residential element of its annual cross-sector forecasts for investments in 2024 to 2028. The agency says turbulence in...

Savills is warning that the average UK house price is projected to fall by a further 3.0 per cent in 2024...

The tough economic climate has seen the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad increase its stake in the UK’s mortgage market to...

Pepper Advantage, a global credit intelligence company, has released data which points to potential future increases in credit impairments in the...

A leading buying agent has claimed that, with the mortgage market still in turmoil post-the disastrous mini-Budget (and its near total...

A significant nationwide study by leading specialist lender, Together predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion...

Buy-to-let purchase activity saw a spike in June, according to new data from Legal & General’s SmartCriteria tool, which has been...

I work closely with specialist mortgage brokers to help my clients to secure mortgages in Spain because it’s such a tricky...

Well-known Spanish agency Lucas Fox works with some of Spain's leading mortgage brokers who offer competitive mortgage packages to suit all requirements....

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has outlined the key areas it believes the government and the industry should focus on...

On Thursday (November 4), the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee will decide whether interest rates will finally increase, after the...

Last week, two of the UK’s biggest housebuilders – Barratt and Berkeley – held webinars aimed at investors. While new-build developments have traditionally...

A London-based property development company, founded by two young local entrepreneurs, managed to post record sales over the last two quarters...

  The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the mortgage market has been significant and that's why consumers will be seeking expert...

It’s a question many would-be investors will have been asking themselves, with so much remaining up-in-the-air and uncertain at present. But...

The latest industry research and market commentary shows that the buy-to-let sector is showing signs of recovery following the strain of...

Lending in the buy-to-let mortgage market has been steady in recent months, despite a slowdown in overall mortgage business, according to...

New research from online mortgage broker Property Master has revealed the cost of three out of six categories of fixed rate...

Two, three and five-year fixed rate mortgages have all dropped in cost over the past 12 months, according to Mortgage Brain’s...

Fresh figures from Mortgage Brain’s product data analysis show that the buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage market remains ‘unsettled’, with mixed movement seen...

Mortgage costs are back on the rise after two successive quarters in which there were a number of cost and rate...

The number of buy-to-let lenders lending to limited companies has increased by 47% over the past year, according to Mortgages for...

The number of landlords looking to remortgage has reached an all-time high, Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index has...

Average asking prices of newly-marketed property show a fall of 2.3% in August as new sellers launch a ‘late summer sale’,...

Investors are increasingly searching for cheaper and higher yielding properties despite buy-to-let (BTL) investments offering attractive return rates, according to a...

The cost of a buy-to-let mortgage remains at a record low, according to analysis by Mortgage Brain. With little movement in costs...

Since the start of the year, the cost of a typical five-year fixed buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage has fallen despite the possibility...

The UK economy was bolstered by more than £7 billion in 2017 thanks to Britain’s older homeowner’s releasing equity for retirement,...

The second charge mortgage market saw new business increase 33% by value and 22% by volume in June compared with the...

The bridging loans sector has markedly raised its profile in recent years. It is also becoming better understood by property investors,...

The number of mortgage products has continued to rise, with the volume of deals on the market having increased by 61%...

Millennials are the generation born between the early 1980s and the early years of the 21st century, which means that at...

Mortgage costs and rates fell during the second quarter of the year, according to the latest figures. Mortgage Brain’s quarterly product data...

The proportion of people acquiring property with a large deposit dropped in May, the latest mortgage monitor from e.surv shows. Those buying...

The recent surge in small deposit mortgage deals for first-time buyers is good news for purchasers, especially first-time buyers. Recently released data...

Residential property transactions in May dropped by 3.3% on the previous month, following two successive months of growth, in what could...

Cheap borrowing levels should boost demand for property across the UK in the coming months, despite a recent fall in the...

MortgageGym, which is planning to try and change the way UK consumers access the mortgage market, has announced the successful completion...

There was a sharp rise in the number of home buyers using cash to buy property last year, with mortgage lending...

The total number of mortgage products on the market has reached its highest level since the recession in 2008 as competition...

TSB has reduced mortgage lending to first-time buyers, especially in London, amid growing concerns that many homeowners without significant equity in...

Article 50, the starting gun for the UK to leave the European Union was triggered on the 29th March and now...

More than one in 10 homeowners in the UK have tried to move property but decided against it after encountering issues...

Mortgage accessibility in the UK has improved to its highest level since tougher lending conditions came into play as part of...

Residential property prices in Australia are increasing at their fastest pace in seven years, fuelling growing fears about a property bubble...

With banks in Australia continuing to tighten their investor lending criteria, a growing number of investors looking to invest in property...

The average value of a home in Portugal increased to €1,106sqm (£971sqm) in January, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). Based...

There was a surge in remortgage activity in 2016, which peaked in Q4, as more borrowers opted for longer term fixed...

While buy-to-let lenders come to terms with fresh interventions imposed by the Prudential Regulation Authority, designed to subject buy-to-let landlords to stricter...

People over the age of 55 are being frozen out of new mortgages, according to a new study. Stricter lending criteria means many...

The Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee scheme will come to an end tomorrow and there are fears that its withdrawal could...

Fewer people are expected to invest in residential property in 2017, as tax changes and economic uncertainty deter many property investors...

Auction rooms across the UK are often filled with property investors looking to buy property, ensuring that hundreds of residential and...

Residential property prices across parts of the UK could rise by more than £50,000 over the next five years, although much...

Bridging lending increased sharply during the third quarter of the year peaking at £140.49m, brushing off volatility that had plagued the...

Homebuyer deposits rose by an average of £5,000 in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period last...

The Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme, which has attracted strong demand from borrowers looking for higher loan-to-value (LTV) home loans,...

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions, confidence in one often-overlooked corner of the market is currently booming. Sentiment among bridging...

The number of mortgage products on the market has increased sharply over the past two years, led by gains in the...

Specialist lender Together has joined forces with buy-to-let and commercial mortgage broker TBMC to provide property investors with auction and bridging...

Short-term property finance lender LendInvest has joined forces with LOT11 to become the funding partner for those seeking to buy property...

Around one-third of the 3,500 or so mortgage deals currently on the market are now offered without an arrangement fee, according...

Research carried out by Nottingham Trent University has shown that new-build properties may be making owning a home in the UK...

More than one in four house sales fell through in the last quarter of 2015. This is according to data from...

The number of mortgage products available reached a post-recession high in April, according to research by the National Mortgage Index from...