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Rightmove is warning that the housing market is set for disruptions from the summer onwards, and suggests the brisk start to...

A leading business analyst is firmly blaming interest rates for the see-saw in house prices seen in recent indices. The latest, from...

Rightmove is calling on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to use next week’s Budget as an opportunity to incentivise landlords to make properties...

One of the biggest parts of buying a holiday home is securing a holiday let mortgage which can differ substantially to...

Confidence has returned to the mortgage market, with sentiment improving steadily month by month in the last quarter of 2023, according...

One of the MPs behind the disastrous mini-Budget - which directly led to soaring interest rates - is to stand down...

The average price of a home in Wales fell to £234,086 at the end 2023 following continued economic and financial pressures,...

Average new seller asking prices rose 1.3 per cent between December and January - the biggest rise at this time of...

UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 -...

Both sides of the rental divide have criticised Conservative proposals to boost housing demand while doing nothing about supply. Over the New...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - and has looked back on the past 12 months. This year, 2023, ends with...

Paragon Bank has launched new five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages with nil product fees. Rates start at 5.80 per cent and there is...

Rightmove is building the hype ahead of its much-vaunted Boxing Day listing of new properties to the market. The portal claims that...

Rightmove has revealed its forecast for 2024 - but just as it has done this, it’s revealed asking prices have dropped...

House prices fell 1.2 per cent in the past year, according to a new Zoopla report out today, with average discounts...

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

Average house prices are now falling 2.9 per cent annually in England and Wales according to the monthly e.surv index. Yorkshire and...

The Generation Rent group of activists has written an open letter to mortgage firm chief executives asking for special dispensation for...

Landlords and brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn...

The number of property transactions fuelled by the mortgage sector has fallen by 42 per cent so far this year. Britain’s more...

Property investment dates back centuries – millennia, even. As a fundamental necessity for post-nomadic humanity, residential and commercial real estate have...

Today's inflation figures effectively seal the fate of the housing market for the rest of this year - including the crucial...

The average price of homes coming to the market have dipped slightly once again, according to Rightmove. The newly-marketed properties are some...

Britain has suffered the worst house price fall out of any major European economy according to a report from property consultancy Knight...

The Bank of England has announced its latest change in base rate, which is used by most lenders to determine interest...

There’s been widespread anger from the mortgage broker community in response to NatWest’s decision to make buy to let stress tests...

The Halifax says house prices were flat in May, but fell 1.0 per cent in a year - the first annual...

Moneyfacts, the respected independent mortgage market monitor, is warning that lenders have been withdrawing buy to let fixed deals. Within the buy...

The Bank of England has raised base rate by 0.25 per cent to 4.25 per cent - the highest level since...

In the last three months of 2022, mortgages agreed for the coming months were down by a third from the previous...

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out ways in which mortgage lenders can help customers struggling with payments - but landlords...

It looks like the buy to let mortgage market has bounced back after the disastrous mini-Budget. Moneyfacts, an independent mortgage monitor, says...

House prices rose by 9.8 per cent year-on-year in December compared with the same month in 2021, the Office for National...

A new crowdfunding platform says it’s opening up property investing to “a whole new generation.” Allbricks claims it’s disrupting “the antiquated mortgage...

An upbeat trading statement from buy to let mortgage lender Paragon suggests that the sector is relatively healthy, but losing many...

Although the property and mortgage markets have been in a state of flux for the past few months, with rising interest...

There’s been a dramatic short-term improvement in the number of mortgage products available for buy to let landlords. The independent mortgage market...

Buy to let broker Mortgages for Business is seeking to reassure landlords worries that the values of their properties will crash. The...

A range of mortgage brokers are reporting an increase in enquiries from private tenants who have been given first refusal to...

Mortgage activity is forecast to fall by six per cent by year-end as the market feels the brunt of interest rate...

New research from an online buy to let mortgage broker shows that average rates for some typical deals favoured by landlords...

Landlords who use the Moneyfacts service to help find the most competitive offers on the mortgage market can now benefit from...

A charity, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, wants a form of Right To Buy to be given to private tenants.  Right To Buy...

New research showed a large month-on-month increase in the cost of typical buy to let fixed rate mortgages popular with landlords.   Online...

The latest Bank of England base rate increase will serve only to increase the pain on landlords, it’s been claimed. This is...

Whether it’s increasing the amount we recycle, choosing sustainable products, or reducing our carbon footprint by limiting the amount we travel,...

A prominent buy to let mortgage expert says yesterday base rate rise by the Bank of England is expected to hit...

Yesterday Landlord Today reported that there was now a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage...

There’s a 15 year record high in the number of buy to let mortgage products available for current or new landlords. The...

Our housing market needs a long-term vision, and one which is co-ordinated across government and the wider industry. And it is...

Landlords are being warned that the next Bank of England base rate rise, possibly at its next meeting in early February,...

Only six per cent of brokers questioned in a survey have ever sold a green mortgage, despite the high public profile...

Independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says there’s been a big increase in choice available to landlords wanting to enter the holiday...

New research from online buy to let mortgage broker Property Master reveals there are currently 41 BTL mortgages at the record...

There’s good news for landlords considering investing or refinancing in the buy to let sector as interest rates are beginning to...

The mortgage market is becoming increasingly competitive for landlords who want to take advantage of offers as the economy comes out...

There’s been a surge in the number of mortgage products aimed at landlords in the holiday let market. There’s been a 45...

Buy to let mortgage choice has increased for the fifth month in a row, according to independent mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts. There...

Specialist buy to let lender Paragon has taken the unusual step of issuing a so-called Green Bond to fund attempts to make...

An online mortgage broker specialising in buy to let has launched a new tool using Artificial Intelligence to show landlords how...

A growing number of buy-to-let landlords are looking to take advantage of cheaper borrowing rates, growing demand from renters, and the...

The Nottingham for Intermediaries has temporarily withdrawn its mortgage range. Nikki Warren-Dean, head of intermediary sales, said: "The aim of this temporary measure...

There has been a drop in buy-to-let lending, but the decline is less dramatic than the general purchase market, according to the latest...

SimplyBiz Mortgages has added buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans to its mortgage panel. Zephyr offers standard and specialist products to both individuals and...

There appears to have been an increase in demand for buy-to-let property since the chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday, but...

A growing number of international property investors are expected to increase their presence in the UK buy-to-let market over the next...

Buy-to-let properties in the UK are currently in high demand and there appears to be plenty of room for further growth,...

There are emerging signs of recovery in the buy-to-let mortgage market, following the major initial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic-induced lockdown,...

Mortgage advisor jobs - shortage of advisors to meet demand The mortgage market, like all other parts of the property industry,...

Mortgage approvals slumped to the lowest on record in April as the UK spent the month in the coronavirus lockdown, the...

Buy-to-let is no longer the investment of choice for some people, new data suggests.  The buy-to-let share of all online mortgage searches...

Skipton International has returned to remortgage lending for overseas buyers looking to invest in the UK buy-to-let market.  Skipton International had recently...

Hundreds of buy-to-let mortgage products have been withdrawn from the market due to the coronavirus outbreak, according to Property Master. The online buy-to-let...

An online comparison site has been launched by Buy-to-Let Direct with a view to helping landlords make the right decisions when...

The State Bank of India’s (SBI UK) buy-to-let product range is now available through Legal and General Mortgage Club. The company provides...

Hodge has introduced a new mortgage aimed at those wanting to acquire a holiday let property in the UK.  The mortgage, which...

A significant number of people renting in the UK say they will never be able to afford a home, according to...

The average homeowner in this country could be £352,500 better off than the average private renter over the next 30 years, even...

Buy-to-let mortgage approvals increased in July, up 5.5% year-on-year, suggesting that market conditions are improving, the latest UK Finance report shows. There...

Take-up of buy-to-let mortgages slowed in June as economic and political uncertainty caused some buy-to-let investors to adopt a ‘wait and...

Habito has instructed Pepper UK to provide the end-to-end servicing of its new portfolio of buy-to-let mortgages. The online mortgage broker announced...

Leek United has made a number of changes to its lending policy across its retirement, buy-to-let and remortgage product ranges. In terms...

Habito has launched its own range of buy-to-let products for individual landlords. The Habito-branded mortgages, which will be available through its new...

Vida Homeloans has announced the release of a series of new specialist mortgage products, including buy-to-let deals. The products include a 75%...

Landbay has revamped its range of buy-to-let mortgage products for professional landlords and reduced rates in a bid to win more...

Buy-to-let mortgage activity increased slightly in April, with landlord investors taking out 5,100 new buy-to-let home purchase mortgages, up from 5,000...

West One Loans has launched a new range of first charge buy-to-let mortgage products, including both standard and specialist deals. The new...

The Mortgage Lender has launched a range of buy-to-let mortgage products available at up to 80% loan-to-value (LTV). The new deals, some...

There has been a significant increase in the cost of popular fixed term buy-to-let mortgage rates, fresh data shows. The latest research...

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free two-year fixed rate buy-to-let product at 60% loan-to-value with a borrowing rate of...

The average cost of three out of six categories of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage has increased over the past month, while...

Barclays has cut rates across its buy-to-let range by up to 0.26%. Buy-to-let purchase and remortgage products now start at 2.3% for...

Barclays Mortgages has launched a series of rate reductions across a number of buy-to-let – and residential – ranges for both...

Mortgage lenders have reduced the cost of most of their fixed rate buy-to-let deals for landlords over the past 12 months,...

Buy-to-let mortgage activity continued to slow in October, as fewer landlords took out home loans as a result of tax changes...

Mortgage lenders have increased their fixed rate buy-to-let deals for landlords, according to Property Master. The firm’s mortgage tracker, which follows a...

Paragon has added to its buy-to-let mortgage range to include mortgages for expat landlords with rental property in the UK and...

3mc has teamed up with Pepper Money to launch some new exclusive mortgage products that are up to 0.1% cheaper than...

The proportion of buy-to-let remortgaging hit a record high in the third quarter of the year, as more landlords looked to...

Do you know how much you could save by switching mortgages? Research from Property Master reveals that landlords on standard variable...