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28 December 2023
From: Breaking News
![New lender prepares to launch 30-year fixed rate mortgages](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/Mortgage-image400x310.png)
A new lender is preparing to enter the mortgage market with long-dated fixed rate mortgages in a move seen by some...
19 August 2022
From: Breaking News
![What could a digitally enabled future look like for estate agents?](/upload/images/library/PropTech-Agent-Hands-400x310.jpg)
For years now estate agents have been on a journey from digital infancy to digital maturity. But what does the future...
03 August 2022
From: Features
![Plans for 50-year intergenerational mortgages get cautious welcome](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-3-400x310.png)
Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...
04 July 2022
From: Breaking News
![White paper calls for intergenerational mortgages to help first-time buyers](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Summer-400x310.jpg)
A group of mortgage advisers has proposed a range of reforms to reduce barriers to home ownership for first time buyers. The...
20 June 2022
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Holiday slammed for not helping “levelling up”](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/RishiSunak-400x310.jpg)
The Guardian has sharply criticised Chancellor Rishi Sunak for introducing and then extending the stamp duty holiday - because helping estate...
25 August 2021
From: Breaking News
![The problems with incentivising downsizing through stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
The issue of ‘intergenerational fairness’ has been raised in recent weeks, some might say somewhat ironically by a House of Lords’...
04 May 2019
From: Features
![Government to hold housing summit tomorrow as it scrambles for ideas](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...