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An alarming story has appeared in the mortgage trade press, highlighting an apparent pitfall in the house buying process that has...

It’s that time of year again. Black Friday has been and gone and the run-up to Christmas is well and truly...

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

A mortgage technology platform has released figures suggesting the housing market remains strong, with high numbers of searches by buyers for...

The founder of OneDome says a likely housing market slowdown is the perfect time for agents to optimise revenue by investing in PropTech. Babek Ismayil believes...

The government has revealed new regional price caps for its revamped Help To Buy Equity Loan scheme, set to operate between...

Just when you thought the housing market was beginning to calm down... along comes a likely vaccine for Coronavirus. One of the country’s...

Property is considered to be a safe investment. The buy-to-let market is booming, fuelled by a generation unable to get on...

A new report funded by high profile consumer champion Martin Lewis says the government must do more to help ‘mortgage prisoners’. These...

A leading board member of NAEA Propertymark warns a small number of rogue agents continue to flout anti-money laundering regulations - and...

The national lockdown beginning on Thursday makes the case for an extension to the stamp duty holiday, according to a tax...

Recent figures emanating from the mortgage and housing market suggest that – since lockdown was ended in mid-May – transaction levels...

The housing market boom looks set to continue for some months yet as mortgage approvals for home purchases hit their highest...

There are 140,000 more buyers waiting to complete on their properties right now than there were this time last year. The claim, by...

A developer operating in prime central London is offering buyers a deferred-payment scheme. K10 Group says it’s doing this because of the...

The property market, and therefore, estate agents have been accused of being the 'weak link' in the UK’s money laundering defences. This...

A new survey reveals the uphill struggle first time buyers appear to be having in securing a mortgage. A study of 1,000...

Delays across the house buying sector mean those wanting to benefit from the stamp duty holiday need to begin the buying...

The National Association of Estate Agents wants the government to initiate a mortgage guarantee scheme to encourage more 95 per cent...

A Bank of England survey suggests it may be more difficult for prospective buyers to get a mortgage later this year. In...

A new paper from a think tank warns that many low income owner occupiers risk losing their homes when the mortgage...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he wants to create a ‘Generation Buy’ to help young people purchase homes with low-deposit mortgages. In...

A new online platform claims to be the first of its kind to speed up the private treaty sales process for...

Almost half of the country’s first time buyers say their plans have been delayed - or worse - thanks to Coronavirus,...

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

One of the country’s major regional agencies has unveiled a ‘super hub’ structure which began life as a lockdown measure but...

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, better known as the furlough scheme, was introduced by the chancellor Rishi Sunak in March to...

Two agencies have entered the debate on whether the current frenzied housing market is seeing delays in completions. Yesterday EAT reported that...

I’m sure I speak for most in the property industry when I say that back in March and April I had...

The scale of the problems facing many prospective buyers has been set out in a survey showing as many as one-third...

If you’re in any way connected to estate agency all it takes is a quick glance at Facebook or LinkedIn to...

A south coast estate agency which has been operating since the 1980s has opened its seventh office.  Jacobs Steel’s latest branch is...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

Recent speculation that the so-called Bank of Mum and Dad would be playing a reduced role in the housing market has...

With access to finance being such a hot topic at the moment, more and more estate agents are turning to commercial...

One of Countrywide’s biggest shareholders has written a second letter to the company to demand bold action to save the agency...

One of the country’s highest-profile mortgage lenders, HSBC, is restricting loans on apartments from today. Only buyers of flats who have a...

HM Land Registry customers - including agents and conveyancers - can now manage all of their applications and correspondence including notices,...

It’s probably not a surprise but new research has revealed where people want to move to - as well as where...

Mortgage approvals - a key indicator of short-term activity in the housing market - beat expectations in June according to Bank...

What do General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, and WhatsApp have in common? Yes, they are American companies that boasted revenues of $50...

A new website that describes itself as an estate agency says it wants to “empower people to sell their own home”...

HM Land Registry is now accepting witnessed electronic signatures on documents for the  transfer of ownership of property, the creation of...

As expected within the property industry, the Chancellor announced a stamp duty holiday in his Summer Statement. This now means that...

The mortgage arm of a regional property portal has launched pre-approval software which it claims will significantly speed up the initial...

Tuesday of this week was the busiest day of the year so far for searches for mortgages - widely seen as...

With stamp duty cuts and 90% mortgages on their way back, anyone could think the housing market was about to go...

Britain’s second largest lender is to offer 90 per cent loan to value mortgages once again from next Monday - a...

You have to feel for Rishi Sunak - well, at least a little. Leave to one side that he carries more presentational...

Evidence is pouring in that the stamp duty holiday introduced 48 hours ago has already produced huge levels of interest from...

There’s been another increase in the number of mortgage products available to buyers and landlords - a sign of all aspects...

An industry analyst is challenging the long-established agents’ view that reducing or temporarily scrapping stamp duty would help the market. On the...

Mortgage enquiries in June surged to double the rate of the previous month according to the latest halifax house price index. Although...

The property market has been reopen for almost eight weeks now and during that time demand from prospective buyers has soared. Rightmove...

We recently issued our Zoopla House Price Index, which analyses the latest real-time trends from the sales market. In our analysis, we...

A survey of 2,000 prospective movers by Zoopla shows the vast majority still intent on buying - but younger purchasers’ plans...

A prominent tax specialist has suggested that stamp duty cuts would not help improve the housing market, despite many agents suggesting...

Zoopla predicts that the price strength that has been seen since the reopening of the housing market is likely to continue...

One in six home owners with a mortgage across the UK are now on some form of payment holiday with lenders...

“Let’s Zoom later”, “are we Zooming in the morning or afternoon?” “Yeah, I zoomed the client earlier” – variations on these...

Online sector veterans Russell Quirk and Kenny Bruce have used social media to call for a temporary scrapping of all stamp...

Today is one month since the government lifted restrictions on agents and the housing market - and since that time the...

The only story that has come remotely close to pushing coronavirus – and its various knock-on effects – off the top...

Restrictions introduced a decade ago after the financial crisis are holding back many first time buyers from purchasing a home. That’s the...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

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

The Bank of Ireland UK is the latest mortgage lender to resume physical valuations of properties in England, subject of course...

A daily monitor of mortgage market activity has reported “significant volumes” of business across the sector, even over the weekend. Mortgage technology...

A free to list portal has blasted Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for using agents' data to boost their profits.  Christopher May, chief...

The Financial Conduct Authority is reported to be considering offering homeowners up to 12 month’s mortgage holidays. Currently 1.2m mortgage payment holidays...

The demand for mortgages in April was scarcely a quarter of what it was in March - but the figures show...

The housing market is likely to rebound relatively strongly after the Coronavirus lockdown eases, according to the Nationwide. House prices grew at...

Countrywide’s senior staff earning over £45,000 per year have had their pay cut by a fifth while some 78 per cent...

A major consumer survey of existing home owners and potential movers has resulted in a plea to government to allow house...

Rightmove and Knight Frank are today both calling for a series of government incentives to kick-start the market after the Coronavirus...

Over 1.2m mortgage payment holidays have been offered by lenders to customers impacted by the Coronavirus crisis - that’s equivalent to...

The impact of the Coronavirus crisis is going to reduce agents' revenue into the third quarter finishing in late September warns a leading...

Two agents have quit Rightmove and taken to social media to give their reasons. One is the 12-branch Andrew Craig agency which...

Hello and here’s the latest daily update to help the industry through these unprecedented times.  If you have any appropriate advice you...

It seems an eternity ago but the housing market in February - that’s only last month - was in rude health...

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

Where else to start? Since my last Natter two weeks ago, all our lives have changed more than we could ever...

It’s been reported that the government is talking with banks and building societies about putting the housing market ‘on ice’ during the...

It’s far too early for authoritative figures on how devastating the Coronavirus lockdown has been on estate agents but there is...

The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted once again how fragile and interconnected our societies have become. We don’t know yet how dangerous Covid-19...

Mortgage lenders approved the highest number of loans for house purchase in nearly four years in January, according to Bank of...

In the last few Natters I’ve focused on the slow death of local newspaper advertising, and how many agents are now...

When Wolverhampton estate agency Thomas Harvey opened its doors more than 50 years ago, mortgages weren’t really part of the equation...

A new study suggests cash buyers secure lower sale prices than mortgaged purchasers - but is that really the case? The survey by...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a shock warning that mortgage borrowers who purchased properties through the Help To Buy scheme...

The 2010s were a good decade for disrupters. Early on, Airbnb and Uber shook up the holiday lettings/hospitality and traditional black...

The mystery of why Countrywide’s crucial sale of its commercial arm has failed to go through as scheduled deepened over the...

Agents now have only seven days to complete a referral fees survey, announced late on Friday by Trading Standards and The...

An estate agency is setting up a call centre employing some 100 people in a bid to become “a one stop...

“Give me 100 leads and I will make five-times more good appointments than any AI you put me up against,” stated...

Hello and welcome to a new week, and a new edition of PJT. If you’re on the move or your firm has...

Following on from the second half of the last decade, the first few weeks of 2020 have been a bit mad...

A new analysis from a financial services trade body shows that gross mortgage lending is expected to rise significantly in the...

The  number of mortgage approvals rose 1.9 per cent in the final month of last year according to e.surv’s mortgage data...

The Property Franchise Group - which operates five High Street agency brands and the EweMove hybrid - has set up a...

House price growth in the past decade was at its weakest for 30 years - and despite that it remains though...

Multi-national financial institution UBS says there could be a cut in the Bank of England base rate as early as May...

Annual UK house price growth exceeded one per cent for the first time in 12 months in December according to the...

Analysts are putting a surprise surge in mortgage approvals from banks down to a spike in applications ahead of the General...

It’s one of the most crucial aspects of the homebuying and selling process but is too often bogged down by frustrating...

Yes, believe it or not, we’ve nearly reached the end of a whole decade. And what an eventful decade it’s been. We’ve...

It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...

A new tie-up between Coadjute, a network for decentralised workflow and data sharing within the property industry, and banks including NatWest...

Online estate agency Housesimple is extending its offer to sell homes for free to some postcodes in the Midlands.  The offer is...

With Brexit still unresolved, the domestic agenda has been pushed from the headlines by the seemingly overwhelming public and political discord...

Countrywide says it is constantly keeping its current branch structure under review, saying any responsible agency would have to consider the...

In just over two weeks, the UK population will head to the polls for the fourth general election since 2010. Of course,...

Recent Zoopla reports stating that first-time buyers are deciding against purchasing one-bedroom flats came as no surprise to me, or I’m...

It’s easier than you might think. For any agent the challenge of making a business successful is hard work with the focus...

There was an increase in the number of first time buyers getting on the property ladder in September compared to the...

The National Association of Estate Agents and the Association of Residential Letting Agents have issued their manifesto for next month’s General...

Foxtons' latest trading statement shows another fall in sales revenue - but this time lettings income is down too. In an announcement...

The former chief of an online estate agency says the top three surviving firms in the sector must merge if they...

Agents have interpreted the latest house price figures as evidence that the market is in limbo waiting for the Brexit -...

Troubled online agency Yopa has launched an in-house subsidiary to sell mortgages and other financial services - and not just to Yopa...

The number of prime residential housing transactions has increased rapidly in the past two decades and even in the past five...

It has been said time and time again that the uncertainty around Brexit is causing, well, uncertainty. As I write this, the...

The number of new mortgages approved by banks fell to a six-month low in September - but the annual figure shows...

An estate agency based in Cumbria has rebranded to Hunters following a management buyout. Cumberland Estate Agents has been purchased by its...

The latest figures from Halifax show annual house price growth has dipped to a six-year low. Average property price growth in...

We know that the tenant fee ban has cost letting agents dearly, with an estimated loss of £300 million paid to...

House price growth in the UK 'ground to a halt' last month, according to the latest Nationwide figures. The lender's house price...

Although property transactions have, unsurprisingly, recently seen a decline which is almost certainly in part due to the ‘B-word’, this doesn’t...

As an agent, it’s part of your role to protect and advise your clients throughout the buying and selling process. Mortgages are...

The annual rate of growth of UK house prices has slowed to its lowest level since September 2012. Official government data from...

There's good news for the market in at least one sector - mortgages offered to first time buyers. Latest figures from the...

A study from Santander Mortgages has blown the cover on first time buyers, suggesting they know almost nothing and research very...

The government has issued a revised version of its official How To Buy and How To Sell documents, aimed at consumers...

First time buyers will constitute the largest single group of purchasers in 2019, despite the apparent difficulties of deposits and securing...

It’s been quite a week for news so you might have missed this story - there is yet another boost for...

Who are you and what does it say on your business card? I’m Tony Strover. On my business card it says...

There has been a sceptical response by agents and others in the property industry to the government’s latest headline-grabbing tweaks to...

A new analysis of privately owned homes with mortgages outstanding shows repossessions have risen in London - but they’re down in...

The Bank of Mum and Dad is now officially one of the 10 biggest mortgage lenders according to data from Legal...

Brexit is not deterring first time buyers this year according to an analysis by the Yorkshire Building Society. It says that despite...

The number of owners' properties being repossessed jumped 15 per cent year on year in the second quarter of 2019. There were...

A report by Santander says stamp duty cuts should be used as incentives for older home owners to downsize and allow...

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee - which meets monthly to set the base rate on which the costs of...

Seemingly-endless uncertainty over Brexit and now speculation over whether there will be an easing of stamp duty on transactions is making...

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

I feel I am in a fortunate position. I have been central to the PropTech movement for a number of years,...

The number of UK residential mortgages approved with a term of 40-years or more jumped over 20-fold in 2018. London estate agency...

There’s more ammunition today for those agents who argue that equity release stops people moving and thus cuts the number of...

Online estate agency Yopa is warning of price falls ahead in London and south east England - although price rises elsewhere...

Specialist providers catering for the over-50s has welcomed a move by high-end estate agency Knight Frank to move into equity release. Commenting...

Theresa May arrived in Downing Street some three years ago - but her premiership has not been a smooth ride. As she...

FirstHomeCoach, the brainchild of a former HSBC banker, has launched with the aim of providing “every service” a first time buyer...

The number of mortgages approved by High Street banks increased 5.4 per cent to 44,000 in April. Data from trade body UK...

New research suggests it takes, on average, six months and 24 days to buy a home. The study, for PropTech virtual tours...

Retired homeowners are increasingly using property wealth to clear unsecured debts and mortgages to strengthen their later life finances, a new...

Whether you love or hate it, Purplebricks has undoubtedly left its mark since arriving on the scene in 2015 – much...

Agents have reacted gloomily to the release of figures showing that the number of new mortgages offered to both movers and...

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has launched its long-awaited ‘How to sell a home’ and ‘How to...

Equity release, seen by many agents as a reason why fewer older homeowners are downsizing these days, has reported more growth...

There’s a silver lining to another set of stodgy housing market figures - at least one sector, for those buying their...

Humberts, the agency which was one of the first to ditch High Street offices in favour of fewer larger hubs, has...

On the same day as one of the most optimistic Rightmove market snapshots of recent months, the latest mortgage monitor from...

No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...

Labour is proposing two methods of controlling house price rises should it win the next General Election - and the ideas...

House prices rose slightly more rapidly in the first three months of the year but growth is likely to remain subdued...

The leasehold scandal has received plenty of press coverage, with horror stories of people living in homes that are impossible to...

New figures from the Equity Release Council suggest more growth in this sector, alarming those agents who see this as a...

Mortgage brokers are claiming that “a big number” of buyers are being cajoled into using estate agents’ in-house brokers. The Financial Conduct...

A mortgage firm claims that around a third of all those who have moved homes since 2016 have done so -...

The new portal OneDome is offering what it calls a “consumer-facing digital mortgage product” in a bid to cut fall-throughs. OneDome already...

Countrywide’s share price dipped to its lowest ever level yesterday, below 8p before recovering a little ground later in the day. The...

Whether it is legacy providers with new, young businesses, or large banks with PropTech startups, all types of cross-collaboration are vital. It’s...

Mortgage prisoners - borrowers unable to switch lenders despite being up-to-date with payments - may have an escape route in sight...

It’s being suggest that a recent tax tribunal verdict might just open the way to challenges to the three per cent...

Over 50 per cent of all mortgage products available to home buyers in the UK currently have a standard maximum term...

Two 'challenger portals' have revealed major new services this morning as they fight to take on Rightmove and Zoopla. OneDome, the new...

An analysis of thousands of transactions shows that homes with ‘street’ in their address produce sale prices which are almost exactly...

Half of first time buyers say they made expensive mistakes during their process of purchasing their home, with mortgage brokers, removal...

Figures released this morning show a surge in first time buyers securing mortgages in recent months, despite the market showing continued signs...

Monthly mortgage payments as a proportion of income have dropped to 31 per cent now from 43 per cent a decade...

After several days of gloomy market news, here's something more optimistic - there were 370,000 new first time buyer mortgages completed in...

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

Mortgage lenders are relaxing age limits so that house buyers can still be paying off their home loan well into their...

Purchasing a property. It’s a key life goal that so many Millennials aspire to - yet one that has become frustratingly...

The 100 per cent mortgage for first time buyers, which many people thought had disappeared for good, is now back in...

One in six mortgage holders has been rejected for a mortgage in the past, according to new research from Which? It says...

A review of the housing market at present, particularly when it comes to purchase transactions, might not necessarily feel overly positive.  The...

Century 21 UK appears to have bucked the trend of closing offices and reduced footfall by marking the opening of 16...

As 2018 draws to a close, it is fair to say that stretched affordability and uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations has...

If your New Year’s resolution is to move to a four bedroom home in London or the south of England, you...

Figures released by the government over the weekend show that 14,867 Help To Buy equity loans were taken out in the...

The global chief executive of Purplebricks, Michael Bruce, has warned mortgage lenders against offering so-called ‘super-sized’ home loans to borrowers.  Bruce is...

Belvoir has this morning announced that it has acquired MAB Glos, part of the Mortgage Advice Bureau.  The £3.6m deal, done through...

A no-deal Brexit The biggest impact of a no-deal Brexit in relation to housing is a potential fall in house prices -...

Shock figures out this morning show that a staggering £15.4 billion of annual interest is being paid by mortgage borrowers sitting...

Given that online property portals, dominated by a handful of websites, are by far the most popular home search method, it...

How will things be done in the future? There’s no knowing, of course, given the many variables at play, but it’s...

Conveyancing regularly adds unnecessary and costly delays to the home buying process and improvement could be far quicker than any efforts...

A house in Mayfair that was sold for £19.175m in 2014 and put on the market this year at £25m has...

New data from Barclays Mortgages suggests Britons are now likely to stay in their homes for almost 19 years between house...

New figures from the Mortgage Advice Bureau give an insight into the changing demographics of home buyers and buy to let...

An open rental market, where neither landlord nor tenant is in a dominant position, enables rents to rise and fall, which...

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

A mortgage platform is making a pitch for online estate agencies to link with it and offer their customers “a customised...

Figures from the mortgage lenders’ umbrella group, UK Finance, suggest the government desire to see more first time buyers and fewer...

Even the cheapest local homes are out of reach for at least 40 per cent of young adults according to a...

The rise and rise of Equity Release continues with a more-than-doubling of the number of product options on the market in...

Landlords and letting agents might feel they’ve taken a bit of a battering from the government in recent years – and...

The latest house price index from Nationwide shows a monthly fall of 0.5% in August, the largest decline recorded since July...

Dare we mention it but this is the final Bank Holiday weekend of the year before Christmas - so what a...

The number of property transactions in July fell 3.2 per cent on the same month last year according to seasonally adjusted...

It’s not just the bosses’ pay incentives that have been a problem for Countrywide’s senior management - it appears the company...

The buy-to-let sector, which has been under sustained pressure for a number of years now thanks to tax changes designed to...

Oakwood Homes, a four-branch sales and lettings agency operating across East Kent, has acquired Parkland Estates, a single-branch firm based in...

Rumours abound over the future of Countrywide, which lost further share value on Friday, closing very slightly down on the day...

There’s been another drop in mortgage arrears and possessions for owner occupiers - although an increase for some elements of the...

A respected mortgage broker has found that there is widespread public uncertainty amongst the public about the effects of stamp duty...

Most estate agents have tried to dismiss the impact of the Bank of England’s base rate rise, which came following a...

A leading estate agent is warning that an interest rate increase today ould hurt the delicate balance of the housing market. The...

The big story to break this week in the property world was the announcement by the new owner of Humberts that...

The latest transaction figures from HM Revenue and Customs make depressing reading - a three per cent drop between May and...

The mortgage industry may be throwing agents and the housing market something of a lifeline - it’s been revealed that 40...

The Law Commission has unveiled proposals that it claims could stop property fraudsters in theirb tracks and improve conveyancing at the...

Only 24 hours after the Land registry released data showing a 20 per cent slump in housing transactions, new figures from...

The consumer group Which? says some estate agents are misleading buyers about in-house mortgage services.  The consumer group has issued a number...

Hello and welcome to this week’s Property Jobs Today - a slim edition given how quiet the industry is at the...

Locations in the capital dominate a league table of locations where the largest numbers of so-called ‘high risk’ mortgages are taken...

The Money Laundering Regulations 2017 require estate agents to risk assess their business relationships and apply an appropriate level of investigation...

A decade ago we were still years away from Purplebricks, Countrywide was a colossus in the industry, no one had thought...

Estate Agent Today is 10 years old this weekend. We hope you’ll agree that’s a cause for celebration and a great...

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

Potential first-time buyers in every area of the UK would have lower monthly outgoings if they bought a property rather than...

The pace of change is extraordinary. As we reach the middle of one conversation, rumblings of the next already begin. I think...

A property portal that describes itself as free-to-list has launched today, taking the industry by surprise - however, at least one...

Last time out I looked at the growing importance of content, social media and design – but these should only form...

A recent holiday in the US gave me an opportunity to catch up with property news over there - and surprisingly,...

Breakdowns within property chains are the most common cause of fall throughs, according to a new study. Over the last ten years,...

Century 21 UK is slashing the cost of becoming a franchisee for a six week period, cutting the price from £23,500...

A service that tracks different types of mortgage demand reveals that remortgaging is on the rise while borrowing for new purchases...

The housing market may have seen some depressing figures of late but there’s good news about mortgage arrears - they’re at...

Trussle, which describes itself as the UK’s first online mortgage broker, has won £13.6m in financing from international investors led by...

The Financial Conduct Authority says house buyers need more help to find the best priced and most appropriate mortgage deal for their...

Fewer mortgages were approved for home buyers last month than in the same month a year ago according to figures from...

A new survey suggests that despite many lenders increasing their rates, most mainstream mortgages are down compared to the start of...

Property purchases for buyers requiring mortgages reached 50,000 in February, the highest level for the month since 2007.  The data, from mortgage...

The latest mortgage snapshot from e.surv has reinforced recent claims from other sources that London’s housing market remains the most difficult...

The proportion of first time buyers in the market is still 11 per cent below the level seen before the 2008...

Barclays is next week launching a so-called ‘green mortgage’ which links the loan to the Energy Performance Certificate rating of the...

The first-ever ‘digital mortgage’ deed has been lodged at HM Land Registry, for a property at Rotherhithe in London.  Coventry Building Society...

Countrywide is not quite finished with online experimentation yet, for today sees the launch of an online mortgage service, backed by...

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

A magazine claims its investigations into the sales tactics of Countrywide and Connells suggest the two agency are “harming consumers, stopping them from...

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

The switchback of house price indices and other data on the state of the market has taken a turn for the...

The magazine Mortgage Strategy says Countrywide is investigating reports that one of its estate agent branches pressured buyers to use in-house...

Foxtons has reported its 2017 figures to shareholders and the City this morning and as expected they show sharp falls in...

Leaders is expanding the mortgage side of its business with a raft of new products and services, as well as introducing...

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

Over the last few weeks, mortgage lenders have started to adjust their pricing in anticipation of a further interest rate rise...

Why I won’t buy Purplebricks shares and why if I had any, I’d sell fast… In its latest adverts, Purplebricks attempts to...

LSL Property Services is beefing up the mortgage arm of its activities.  It has acquired the mortgage adviser network Personal Touch in...

The costs of the majority of mainstream mortgages increased in the final three months of last year.  The news comes from mortgage...

According to The Branding Journal, a brand is “a name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's...

A poll of over 2,500 first time buyers suggests that on average they pay £5,300 less than the asking price -...

The managing director of a bank has called for young people to be given more assistance in understanding the finances and processes behind...

What a year it’s been! Back in 2016 we had Brexit, a new prime minister, Donald Trump’s election, and so when...

It’s not breaking new ground to say that younger people have what many regard as the raw end of the deal...

A survey suggests that over 10 per cent of existing homeowners have been deterred from selling thanks to the recent interest rate...

The housing industry has set out a list of demands in advance of the government’s hotly anticipated Autumn Budget on Wednesday.  Despite...

Winter seems to be firmly with us now, if the plunging temperatures are anything to go by. After a ridiculously mild...

Mortgage approvals are well above last year's levels despite concerns about the health of the housing market.  There were 66,185 mortgage applications...

The Bank of England has raised the base rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent. The Bank’s monetary policy committee was...

Experts suggest that a possible interest rate rise this morning - if it is backed by a majority of members of...

As the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee consider whether to increase base rate later this week, new figures from the...

The residential research associate director of Cushman & Wakefield says there is now evidence that the Help to Buy equity loan...

It’s been a big week for property news - controversies surrounding Purplebricks, merger discussions between big franchise operators, and another government...

Respected mortgage market monitor Moneyfacts says that the costs of some mortgages are already rising in the expectation of a base...

In his PropTech 3.0 report, Andrew Baum dedicated an entire section to blockchain; it was titled: ‘Blockchain is coming – get...

UK house price inflation is now running at a modest 2.0 per cent but London's housing market has recorded its worst...

Mortgage lending reached £24.2 billion in August according to latest estimates by UK Finance. There were some 41,807 house purchase approvals, with...

There is growing concern that online agents who do not chase-up on behalf of clients are leading to delays and fall-throughs...

It appears activity in the housing market in 2017 will be around 15% down on 2016. The number of housing transactions...

The Daily Telegraph claims that what it calls “dodgy practices” are leaving customers “thousands of pounds out of pocket.” The article quotes...

ZPG - which already owns and operates Zoopla, PrimeLocation, Hometrack and the price comparison website uSwitch - has acquired the financial...

Estate Agent Today understands that Spicerhaart is in the final stages of talks to acquire major regional independent firm butters john...

Customer service is a definitive priority for prospective borrowers when choosing a mortgage lender.  This is according to a study of over...

Whenever any research is released, part of me can’t help thinking of that old adage, ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ especially...

There’s good news for the housing market from new mortgage and remortgage approval figures showing growth in July after three flat...

Independent financial service Moneyfacts says first time buyers who opt for a fixed rate deal might be better off if they chose...