Mortgages and Property News

Despite concerns that an increase in the Bank of England's base rate may slash lenders' profit margins, the mortgage pricing war that has pushed the cost of monthly payments down during the...

Months after slashing mortgage rates to record lows, two of the UK’s biggest mortgage lenders will hike rates again as speculation of an impending base rate rise mounts.HSBC cut rates across its...

Halifax has revealed that house prices in September showed the strongest monthly rise since 2007.September’s rise reversed the decline in annual growth that had been recorded over the previous three...

Another week, another attention-grabbing mortgage offer, this time from Yorkshire Building Society.Just days after the Co-operative Bank’s Platform arm launched a 0.79% two-year fix, Yorkshire BS said...

Housing charity Crisis has warned that the government’s £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit will put at least 100,000 renters at risk of eviction in England.Since the start of the pandemic, the number...

Landlords can now benefit from the price war between mortgage lenders, with Nationwide’s the Mortgage Works launching the first sub-1% buy-to-let products.Cash-flush lenders have been shattering...

Thousands of homeowners are trapped in flats that cannot be sold or remortgaged despite the government’s attempts to convince banks to forgo fire-safety checks on low-rise apartments.In July, the...

Following a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) investigation, thousands of leaseholders will be freed from expensive contract terms with housing developer Countryside Properties.The CMA said that...

The Co-operative Bank’s brand Platform has lowered the bar on mortgages still further, launching a 0.79% loan that’s the cheapest ever offered in the UK.The mortgage price war has been escalating for...

The post-pandemic house price boom could get a further boost next year, as average mortgage rates dip still further.Consultants Capital Economics projects that the average mortgage interest rate will...