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A survey of homebuyers has found overwhelming support for a legal ban on gazumping. A mortgage lender - MFS - spoke with...

Stamp duty rebates and cash to improve energy efficiency are being demanded by one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders in...

New data from one of Britain’s largest mortgage lenders shows that nearly one in five first-time buyers are now aged 40...

A veteran PropTech figure with extensive experience of working at leading estate and sales agencies has told the government to act...

Lenders are predicting a busy quarter for supply and demand of mortgages. The Bank of England’s latest Credit Conditions Survey showed lenders...

The term ‘time bomb’ is sometimes overly used in the housing market, and while it has been linked to many things...

Property blockchain network Coadjute has secured a £10m investment from Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, Natwest, and Rightmove.  This is the first time...

North Berwick in East Lothian, has been named the best place to live in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live...

One of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders has reduced its upper age limit in a blow for home buyers . Halifax is...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has become the latest member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), committing to help speed up...

Only two out of five UK adults are aware of what conveyancing is, while the number for those who are already...

Increasing numbers of mortgage lenders are pulling decent deals as swap rates rise. Santander has become the latest high street lender to...

Potential self-builders are struggling to find suitable plots and many are planning to turn to estate agents for support. A survey by...

Mortgage lenders are “treading a fine line” between offering attractive rates for homebuyers and getting caught out by rising swap rates,...

Knight Frank has revised its house price forecasts and said it now expects average values to rise this year rather than...

There will be many of us working in the property sector who will have raised a glass and toasted seeing the...

Mortgage lenders are expecting a quieter year for home loans in 2024. Forecasts from banking trade body UK Finance suggest lending for...

A new product has launched that protects homeowners from the growing threat of property-related frauds. Title Guardian is an app that monitors...

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has expanded its executive committee with the appointment of Nick Chadbourne from conveyancing panel provider LMS. The...

Nationwide has called for an independent review of the first-time buyer market as it urges the Chancellor to boost support for...

Two more major lenders have cut mortgage rates, prompting hopes that deals could seen come close to 3%. HSBC and Halifax have...

I’ve always been a half glass full kind of person.  But I’ve got to confess I struggled to get too excited by...

Mortgage lenders are braced for a slower market over the rest of the year. The latest Bank of England Credit Conditions Survey...

Leading digital compliance firm SmartSearch has launched an innovative new solution to help professionals working within the UK property sector to...

As an Estate Agent it’s important to be able to interpret and understand the information that a Title Deed document presents...

United Trust Bank (UTB) has become the first lender to sign up to the Open Property Data (OPDA) Association. Additionally, the bank’s...

Mortgage lenders are at last cutting their rates on some deals, confident that the Bank of England’s base rate may rise...

There’s been a sharp rise in mortgage arrears as high interest rates have hit the housing market - and now there’s...

Lloyds Banking Group has issued a slightly more positive house price outlook despite warning of increased pressure on mortgage affordability from...

Renters are putting off their buying plans until property becomes more affordable, according to the latest research from The Mortgage Lender...

The majority of mortgage lenders have committed to showing more flexibility to struggling borrowers but the Government has confirmed that support...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has secured promises from banks to be more flexible with mortgage borrowers amid concerns about rising rates. Average mortgage...

The property market is braced for another interest rate rise today after the latest inflation data shows the cost of living...

A quarter of homeowners are considering selling up and going back to renting amid rising mortgage costs. New Moneyfacts figures shows the...

Asking prices have fallen on a monthly basis at this time of year for the first time since June 2017 as...

The National Association of Property Buyers’ Jonathan Rolande gives his take on a manic week for the property market. I dearly hope I...

MPs have urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to hold an emergency summit in Downing Street with banks and mortgage lenders to...

The value of mortgage lending has slumped to its lowest level since the second quarter of 2020, Bank of England data...

A strong labour market, growing consumer confidence and an increasing acceptance of a higher mortgage rate environment will support the housing...

Mortgage brokers are trying to get lenders to sign up to a 24-hour Product Withdrawal Pledge in efforts to keep the...

The Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG) has formed an independent industry body, the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), for companies...

Mortgage brokers have expressed concern about products being removed with little or no notice. Hundreds of mortgages have been withdrawn from the...

The Government is not taking any responsibility for the thousands of people that have had spray foam installed by Green Homes...

I was delighted to read recently about the creation of the first ever ‘register of logbooks’ in the UK, which offers...

Mortgage lenders are ‘actively competing’ for home buyers, Rightmove claims. The portal’s mortgage expert has predicted that mortgage rates will remain flat...

Mortgage pricing has dropped despite last week’s interest rate rise, Rightmove claims. In a boost for homebuyers, analysis by the portal suggests...

From first-time buyer support to Stamp Duty changes or just doing nothing at all, there is plenty that agents and property...

As is generally the case, we didn’t start out with solutions, we started with questions…. two, actually. The first was, ‘Why does...

Mortgage lenders may have been grabbing the headlines in recent weeks with rates below 4% but a broker has warned this...

A claims management company (CMC) is in the process of helping with more than 500 claims from homeowners to get refunds...

House prices could drop by almost 25% ‘start-to-trough’ or by as much as 40% in severe circumstances, Lloyds Banking Group has...

It’s been a year since Housing Secretary Michael Gove declared that was “morally wrong” that leaseholders should pay to fix unsafe...

New year, old worries: what’s happening in the housing market? We’ve asked experts and collated forecasts, 15 in total. On the one...

Fintech firm Twenty7tec has acquired mortgage affordability platform Broker Sense for an undisclosed sum. Broker Sense, founded by Stuart Phillips and Mark...

Homeowners are starting to consider solutions to deal with their rising monthly mortgage costs including downsizing, research claims. A survey of more...

A report earlier this month warned that conveyancing firms should stress test their businesses for a sharp decline in work volumes. These businesses...

Mortgage lenders are warming to green mortgages, new research from Mortgage Advice Bureau suggests. Analysis by the broker has found that more...

In this guest feature, Ben Bailey, CCO at Even, a mortgage lender for first-time buyers launched this year, provides commentary on the end...

House prices could fall by 10% next year as higher mortgage pricing and rising inflation dampen buyer budgets, Savills has warned. The agency...

Lloyds Bank has said it is focusing lending on “slightly better off customers” as it warns that house prices could fall...

With reform of the home buying and selling process as crucial as it's ever been, and disrupters like Coadjute and PEXA...

Buyer demand is cooling but the property sector still remains in a sellers’ market for now, new analysis claims. The latest National...

Despite all the recent speculation surrounding the housing market after the badly-received mini-Budget and regular talk of a possible slowdown, new...

Increasing numbers of sales have fallen through during the third quarter but it isn’t all down to rising mortgage rates. Analysis by...

Rightmove insists the housing market is still moving as more lenders removed deals yesterday. Data from comparison website Moneyfacts shows there were...

The fallout from Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget, which has spooked the markets and caused the pound to fall to record lows,...

Record numbers of buyers have taken out fixed rate mortgages to lock-in lower priced home loans before rates rise further, analysis...

Properties are being down valued by up to 5% in some areas of the UK in the sign of a housing...

In this latest Day in the Life of...Natter, I get an insight into one of the most vital cogs of the...

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

Two senior estate agency figures have given their views on the prospects for the property market as commentators warn that longer-term...

The entirety of the property market could be enhanced by embracing all-in-one moving and streamlining processes, according to The ValPal Network. This,...

It was announced back in February this year that PEXA, the Australian FinTech/PropTech that enabled the world’s first fully digitised property settlement...

The number of transactions progressing to completion is being hit by the cost of living crisis and rising interest rates, new...

Issues with property titles and borrower affordability have been revealed among the main reasons why mortgage offers have been withdrawn. The results...

The other day I read a story here on Estate Agent Today, which was both depressing and inspiring. It reported a study...

Estate agents use property technology each and every day for residential property transactions, but is there more they can do with...

Proptech firm Gazeal is working on buyer-focused product that can be used to show a seller they are serious about a...

New research has revealed the regional hotspots where Japanese knotweed has been identified. The data could be of interest to estate agents...

Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) has long been the bugbear of many property transactions. Even the very wealthy will lose interest...

Increasingly cautious mortgage lending could dampen the property market and cause more sales to fall-through, it has been warned. Recent house price...

A survey of 700 borrowers by a high net worth lender suggest almost four out of 10 have lost a mortgage...

Earlier this month, the government’s energy regulator Ofgem announced a record 54 percent increase to the energy bill price cap. Combined...

The Bank of England has confirmed that base rate is to rise again, for the third time in three months, to a...

The path from agent to developer is not easy, but it is a relatively straightforward one, if you are willing to...

An Australian PropTech platform called PEXA aims to break into the UK property industry this year, claiming to improve transaction processes. PEXA...

The majority of homeowners and homebuyers believe Stamp Duty Land Tax is outdated and needs reform. The mortgage lender Butterfield commissioned an...

Here’s the odd thing about interest rates - we all care about them, but they don’t directly affect that many people...

Estate Agent Today understands that the civil servant who has been at the heart of plans to reform the house buying...

Mortgage lenders serving the housing market are set for a quieter 2022 after the unprecedented levels of activity seen in 2021,...

As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...

With the business model for self-employed agents hotly debated within the industry, new data has suggested that most freelance professionals are...

The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, in response to surging...

Around a quarter of mortgage lenders currently have ‘green’ products promoting improved EPCs - and the vast majority of the rest...

Mortgage lenders have announced a voluntary moratorium on possessions from today, December 13, until Tuesday January 4.  A statement from the umbrella...

A leading estate agency says the government may have to use stamp duty and council tax as incentives to persuade owners...

The head of research at a leading agency is warning that although the housing market remains buoyant, there may be macro-economic...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has defied expectations by keeping base rate at its historic low of 0.1 per...

Analysts suggest there is a 50:50 chance of a base rate rise being announced by the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy...

An agency claims that across the UK there have been very nearly 400,000 property transactions down valued in the last year...