Mortgages and Property News

According to a report published by Santander and the London School of Economics, nearly one in four houses in London will be worth more than £1 million within the next 15 years. The report uses data...

Returns made on the repayment of help-buy loans following increasing house prices have, according to research from Hometrack, netted the Treasury up to £213 million in paper gains (unrealised profit...

A report from the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has found that the average first-time buyer in the UK will have paid a total of £52,900 in rent before getting their foot on the...

New research from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors suggests that the surge in demand for buy-let properties is far outdoing the rate at which new properties are coming onto the market.This...

Before launching a review into the housing crisis in the UK, Taylor Wimpey CEO Peter Redfern has warned that he is already concerned about the speed at which house prises are going up.The Refern...

Official data has shown that throughout the course of 2015, 42,728 tenants were evicted from rented accommodation, equivalent to 250 evictions every day.This number is the highest since records began...

Nationwide building society has warned that property prices inflation throughout the UK are likely to continue to accelerate (albeit mildly) well into next year as rates of construction are still...

The FCA has released a warning about a self-certification mortgage provider that relocated to Prague in order to skirt around UK regulations that made banned such loans.Self-cert mortgages, also known...

. It is believed that this is largely down to the new stamp duty, which is set to be introduced by the government on anybody who wishes to buy a second home.As of 1 April, all individuals who wish to...

With prices jumps in the east of England leading the charge, last year saw the biggest increase in rental costs since 2011, according to these latest figures from both estate agents ' buy-let...