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You will notice that there is a new author for this regular column for Estate Agent Today. Last month I was...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

New data from UK Finance - previously the Council of Mortgage Lenders - paints a relatively optimistic assessment of the UK-wide...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders’s buy to let forecast for 2017 and 2018 has been revised down from previous expectations at...

A prominent agent admits to being “disappointed” at what appears to be slowing mortgage figures at a time of year when...

Home buyers borrowed £11.2 billion in March - down on the ‘stamp duty bonanza‘ period at the same time last year...

More than one in three first time buyers have missed out on potential home deals because their deposit was too small...

Mortgage rates continue to fall with the average new lending rate at a record low of 2.2 per cent: as a...

In recent years the mortgage industry has gone through some testing times. Recession and regulation have led to more stringent lending...

There are more first-time buyers (FTBs) finding a way on to the property ladder than at any time since the Financial...

Recent stats from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that last year 360,000 people moved homes, meaning the number has stayed...

Over the past two decades, investing in buy-to-let has been a relatively easy way to make money, which is why so...

The number of home buyers in London dropped to a four-year low in 2016 while the number of loans taken out...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

The number of properties taken into possession last year declined by almost 25 per cent and has hit the lowest level in 35...

Gross mortgage lending reached a remarkable £246 billion in 2016 - that’s 12 per cent higher than the previous year and...

There were an estimated 354,000 homemovers in 2016, a fall of 4% compared to the 367,000 recorded the previous year. Analysis by...

Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...

House prices will rise 2.0 per cent in 2017, below the rate of inflation and just under half the rise predicted...

There’s good news for London’s troubled market - a report from the CML shows that buyers in the capital took out 12...

It may still be too early to start compiling a Christmas wish list, but it is the right time to provide...

Fears raised over the UK housing market in the wake of the Brexit vote have so far proved to be ‘wide...

A mortgage lender has called on the government to reform stamp duty so that it is paid by property sellers instead...

The number of mortgages in arrears is now at its lowest level since records began more than 20 years ago.  Data from...

The morning after the EU referendum, and Westminster, Britain, Europe and the world were left in shock at the news that...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the Brexit vote will hit transactions as buyers and sellers wait for the dust to...

Home-owners borrowed £8.1 billion for house purchases in April, which was four per cent down on the same month a year ago. There...

A new e-conveyancing platform has been launched in Edinburgh ahead of a roll-out across all of Scotland. This system, Altis, is the...

While buy-to-let lenders brace themselves for further interventions as part of proposals currently being drawn up by the Prudential Regulation Authority...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £18.5 billion last month - the highest April figure since...

There has been a 58 per cent rise in the past year for mortgages for house purchase purposes, according to the...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders says the number of repossessions in the first quarter of 2016 was 2,100 - the lowest...

Data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders shows that gross mortgage lending reached £17.6 billion last month - that's the highest...

There has been a warm welcome given to figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showing that lending to first time...

In December 2015 first time buyers borrowed £4.5 billion for house purchases - that’s up seven per cent on November and...

Mortgage lending for home buyers dipped by nine per cent in November according to new data - but it is up...

When it comes to the regulation of the conveyancing industry, this question is a topic of open and ongoing debate. Licensed conveyancers...

The repossession rate has fallen again in the second quarter of 2015, and is at the lowest rate since records began. The...

Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders show that lending to first time buyers bounced back in the second quarter of...

THE UK housing market is reported to be picking up according to figures this month from the Council of Mortgage Lenders...

Connells says its sales figures for June show a 27.5 per cent rise on the same month last year.  The agency has...

Lending for house buying is still down compared to this time last year but there are signs that the market is...

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has embarked on a mission to engage with the lender community with a view to initiating a...

The Aston Mead estate agency says “unnecessarily restrictive mortgage criteria" have caused the number of home loans to drop sharply in...