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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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

The stamp duty holiday came and went with much fanfare. For many buyers it represented a rare opportunity to make some...

Propertymark has welcomed the move by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to help make certain leasehold flats more attractive to would-be buyers...

A bank’s latest study suggests that self employed people are increasingly pessimistic about the chance of them being able to get on...

Initiatives by property portal Residential People and mortgage lenders Paragon Bank and Foundation Home Loans help people to find, buy or...

The end of a largely-forgotten mortgage initiative connected with the pandemic could end up derailing the current strong housing market, agents...

Banks and building societies want the government to offer more help to the housing market through additional assistance to home owners...

A global financial software and analytics firm says it’s launching a new PropTech tool which promises in the near future to...

From today buyers will be able to purchase properties worth up to £600,000 with just a five per cent mortgage, under...

In this tips article, the experts at GoodMove provide expert insight into the remortgage process. Remortgaging is the process of changing your...

Labour and Conservative MPs have expressed a unanimous view on their desire to see an extension of the stamp duty holiday...

A leading mortgage broker is warning that over half the lenders in a key segment of the market are already unable...

It’s been some time since online agencies have ventured into crowdfunding to raise investment, but easyProperty has now done so -...

A PropTech company has won a grant for a project to improve ID verification in the buying and selling process, via...

The online petition calling for an extension to the stamp duty holiday is set to pass 100,000 signatures today. This means the...

A national newspaper is today launching a campaign for the stamp duty holiday to be extended. The Daily Telegraph says its campaign...

The Bank of England is to review the affordability tests imposed on  borrowers, opening the door to a possible relaxation of...

A leading conveyancing sector spokesmen says some mortgage lenders are making the current delays in the house buying process worse. Rob Hailstone,...

Safety checks which are apparently now preventing thousands of owners selling flats are to be eased - but there is confusion...

Asking prices are down for the first time in many months. It’s a small drop - an average of 0.5 per cent...

A leading firm of conveyancers will this week tell new clients that their property purchases are likely to miss the stamp...

Savills says the shape and size of the housing market in the coming months will be determined by the capacity of conveyancers...