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Mortgage lending has dropped and buyers are no longer stretching their affordability limits, UK Finance claims. New data from the banking trade...

Trading conditions in the housing market have worsened during this summer, Crest Nicholson has warned. A trading update from the housebuilder said...

London buyers are becoming more cautious but they may benefit from more stock entering the market, Chestertons claims. A market update from...

Mortgage approvals for home purchase hit their lowest level since June 2020 during November, the latest Bank of England data has...

House prices fell marginally (down by 0.1%) in September as the market displayed further signs of slowdown. That was according to Halifax’s...

After two years of extraordinary activity in the housing market there are signs that the clouds are gathering as RICS reports...

In this guest piece, Kevin Shaw, National Sales Managing Director at Leaders Romans Group, looks at whether house prices will start to cool...

An analyst is warning that the latest buoyant house price figures could be the last hurrah before a significant depression. The Nationwide’s...

OnTheMarket chief executive Jason Tebb is warning that we might be near the top of the market. His portal’s latest sentiment index...

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...

Mortgage approvals declined over the last month as the tapering stamp duty holiday deterred home purchases, according to data from the...

Following a month in which the number of property transactions was the highest since records began, it might seem a little...

OnTheMarket, which until now has lagged behind the leading two portals in terms of consumer-facing housing market information, has today launched...

There are now more mortgage products available than at any time since the start of the pandemic in March 2021. Data from...

Mortgage lending has shown the biggest net increase on record according to the Bank of England.  Mortgage borrowing in March rose by...

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

Mortgage approvals decreased slightly in December but remain well above pre-Covid levels thanks to the continuing incentive of the stamp duty...

With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...

A consumer group says agents are securing increasing income from online auctions, but it warns that for buyers there are pitfalls...

Figures just released assessing February’s mortgage borrowing show that approvals are 1.25 per cent lower than in January, and are down...

A 1.0 per cent interest rate rise would add £930 a year to the cost of servicing the average mortgage, according...

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

The British Banking Association’s latest mortgage lending figures suggest early signs of fall-out from the surprise vote for the UK to...

The latest figures on mortgage lending suggest that higher house prices led to greater lending in June this year than 12...

New proposals to curtail mortgage borrowing in the buy to let sector have been branded as “a classic case of slamming...

Banks have approved the highest number of mortgages for almost two years as the rush to purchase buy to let properties...

Increased competition amongst mortgage lenders and the rush to buy investment properties before the April 1 stamp duty surcharge deadline have...

Gross mortgage borrowing in October was £12.9 billion - a startling 26 per cent higher than a year ago and the...

First came a Bank of England prediction that the market will strengthen in the autumn; then lenders reported a surge in...