Mortgages and Property News

The bank is set to roll out preferential interest rates to borrowers who want to buy homes that meet certain energy-efficient criteria.  The cheaper rates will be available from the 16th of April with...

MPs and landlords have been at loggerheads over how much tenants should pay for deposits in England. The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee (HCLG) has concluded in a report that...

According to property portal Rightmove the average price of newly marketed houses in the UK has jumped more than £2,400 in one month. The average figure once again exceeds £300,000, with the increase...

The number of people purchasing homes for the first time has reached its highest point in over a decade thanks in part to a decline in the growth of house prices. Figures from UK Finance show 365,000...

Halifax reported that house prices in the UK dropped in January as the strain on households due to inflation continued. Figures show that prices dropped 0.8% in December and 0.6% in January which is...

House prices increased by 3.2% in January, up from a 2.6% rise in December according to  Nationwide’s latest house price index. The building society said that it found the figures surprising...

The number of mortgages that banks lent out to customers fell to its lowest point in five years during December 2017, according to the banking lobby group UK finance. According to the figures there...

The changes to Stamp Duty for first time buyers announced in the Autumn budget will have a “limited impact” on housing demand according the Nationwide. The new initiative means that first-time buyers...

Research conducted by Halifax suggests that the value of the entire UK property market has now surpassed £6tn, an increase of 30% over the past decade. Prior to the financial crash, estimates by...

Phillip Hammond has made the housing crisis one of the key points of his agenda by removing Stamp Duty for first home owners. First time buyers will not have to pay stamp duty on any property up to...