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Today, I am reflecting on the Chancellor’s surprise Spring budget decision to abolish multiple dwellings relief for Stamp Duty Land Tax...

It was actor Charlies Sheen who said: ‘I have one speed. I have one gear. Go!’ The same might not be said...

The number of mortgage approvals edged up for a second month in a row during June but remains below 2022’s monthly...

Let’s be completely honest - as challenges go, estate agents are up against it trying to persuade reluctant vendors to take...

House price growth slowed in August but remains in double digits, Nationwide figures have revealed. The lender’s August House Price Index shows...

House price growth slowed in June but remains in double figures, Nationwide data shows. The latest Nationwide House Price Index shows property...

A property lender claims to have identified signs that the property market is slowing. Analysis of Bank of England mortgage approval data...

The property market could be set for further upheaval when the Bank of England makes its latest interest rate decision today. The...

Until a few years ago, you would have been forgiven for not knowing who or what Coadjute was. But the company, founded...

For the first time since before the global financial crisis of 2008, the number of first-time buyers is estimated to have...

Lenders’ umbrella group UK Finance has given its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2022 and 2023 together, plus a year-end report for 2021. It estimates...

The value of mortgage lending hit a record high in the final months of the stamp duty holiday. Figures from the Bank...

A highly influential think tank says stamp duty should be scrapped for all house purchases once and for all. Alexander Hammond of...

Annual house price growth remains above 10 per cent despite a small monthly dip in July according to the Nationwide. A 0.5...

Some 80 per cent of the property market will remain free of stamp duty for first-time buyers, even after the current...

Mortgage approvals declined slightly in January as the market braces itself for the end of the stamp duty holiday - currently...

Annual house price inflation is now running at 6.5 per cent according to the latest Nationwide index after a 0.9 per...

The housing market may be slowing as we enter December but the latest snapshot suggests there’s still momentum with mortgage approvals...

Mortgage approvals for house purchases have soared to a 13 year high according to Bank of England figures up to the...

All my recent Natters have been focused on one particular topic, the coronavirus crisis, for obvious reasons. But there has been...

Two financial trade bodies say most mortgage providers will give customers who have exchanged contracts the option to extend their mortgage...

The government has at last issued extensive advice on home moving and the activities of estate agents during the continuing Coronavirus crisis. This...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has given more details of the trial of reservation agreements likely to take...

Data from UK Finance, which represents most of the country’s lenders, shows that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in...

The number of movers has declined by around 50 per cent since the halcyon days of 2006, before the global financial...

The latest Bank of England mortgage figures suggest that approvals for home buyers are running at more than a fifth below...

Mainstream bank lending for house purchases grew by 3.6 per cent in October compared to the same month last year. However the...

Mortgage approvals fell again in September - this means that every month of 2018 so far has seen a drop against...

The EY ITEM Club, regarded as one of the most influential groups of economists in the UK, says it’s still “dubious”...

Total mortgage approvals by the main High Street banks increased three per cent in May over the same month last year...

The housing market “is clearly currently struggling to gain traction” and any real upturn ”will remain elusive over the coming months”...

Gross mortgage lending is set to reach its highest level since 2007 despite Brexit, says the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association. But its...

This year is going to be “challenging” for the housing market according to the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, a...

Savills has given a pessimistic outlook for the mainstream housing market for the next five years.  It says average house prices across...

The number of existing home owners moving house fell two per cent in the first six months of 2017 compared with...

High end estate agency Savills says the credit crunch - roughly 10 years old next month - is still having an...

Cash is becoming an increasingly large proportion of the funding used to buy homes according to a new analysis of transactions...

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

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

The latest Bank of England data on mortgage approvals - a key barometer for likely transactions for agents - shows Brexit...

Conveyancing is the most complained about area of law in England and Wales – accounting, on average, for nearly a quarter...

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...

First time buyers with small deposits are among those likely to suffer as a result of new regulations on credit risk...

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

A poll of conveyancers suggests that the vast majority believe environmental searches to identify the risk of flooding will become standard...

Mortgage lending has risen 12.5 per cent in the past year, despite a small dip at the end of 2015. Chartered surveying...

The number of first time buyers is estimated to have totalled 310,000 in 2015, virtually unchanged over the past year despite...

The British Association of Removers has entered the dispute over changes to the CHAPS arrangements for the transfer of monies on...

The little-publicised extension of the CHAPS settlement day - taking the closure up to 6pm from next summer - has received...

I make no apologies for returning to Build To Rent, the institutional investment in building and managing blocks of flats to...

The number of house purchase mortgage approvals has risen by 19.8 per cent over the last 12 months.  Data from eSurv suggests...

In a new sign that the housing market is strengthening, mortgage lending increased in August by the largest amount since 2008. Data...

August saw 69,220 house purchase approvals, up 9.3 per cent on the same month last year and an 18 month high. On...

Estate agents have been warned by the National Crime Agency that they must not hesitate to inform the authorities if they...

The number of mortgage loans approved by banks fell year-on-year for the ninth consecutive month in March. Data from the British Bankers’...