Mortgages and Property News

The end of 2015 was a strong one for the UK housing market, with mortgage lending rates in December up 23% compared to a year earlier, despite dipping slightly from November.Overall, the Council of...

The report measures the net housing equity (the value of the portion of each property owned by individuals after mortgages) owned in the UK, and shows who owns what portion of it. According to the...

The Housing and Planning Bill was recently voted through commons with an outright rejection of a proposed amendment that would legally require landlords to ensure that the properties they rented out...

The number of tenants seriously in arrears with regard to their rent payments has risen by 13.8% over the last three months.In the months from June to September 2015, the number of tenants who were...

Plans to extend the existing help-buy equity loan scheme to the capital will officially come into play on the 1st of February, it has been revealed.The help-buy equity loan scheme, as it stands,...

Many property experts have said that some parts of the UK will see an increase of nearly 8% on house prices next year. They have also predicted that the number of homes being sold will go up as well....

The total for gross mortgage lending was up by 28% on 2014, which represented a total of £12.8bn. This was only £0.1bn off of the seven year record set in the previous month.Richard Woolhouse, chief...

Initial predictions following changes that included a 3% stamp duty surcharge as well as cuts to the level of tax relief that private landlords could expect on their mortgage interest suggested that...

Several mortgage brokers have issued warnings about potentially unforeseen consequences of Osborne 's latest changes to the stamp duty land tax system. They claim that the 3% surcharge now added...

According to information released by the Labour Party, home ownership among young people has fallen to its joint lowest percentage since 1996.The data shows that around 45% of people aged between 20...