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

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

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...

The National Association of Estate Agents has met with other members of a high-level government board to look at ways of...

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

There is a perfect storm brewing in the lettings market, and as the saying goes, “you can’t change the direction of...

Mainstream bank lending for house purchases grew by 3.6 per cent in October compared to the same month last year. However the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Despite a string of property pundits suggesting the market is slowing down, new figures from the Office for National Statistics show...

Stamp duty reform for first time buyers has taken pride of place in the Budget speech of Chancellor Phillip Hammond.   From today,...

The spread and sophistication of financial crime in the UK in recent years has been unprecedented.  Figures from UK Finance show that...

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion...

An industry analyst says some agents may find it tough to survive in 2018 if they’re hit by a double whammy...

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

Jackson-Stops & Staff, a critic of the stamp duty system since its reform in 2014, now says the government should slash...

New data from UK Finance - previously the Council of Mortgage Lenders - paints a relatively optimistic assessment of the UK-wide...

Almost half of all property purchase valuations last month were conducted on behalf of first-time buyers according to Connells - well...

Gross mortgage lending reached £22.1 billion in June - that’s nine per cent higher than in May and three per cent...