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New statistics from the Financial Conduct Authority, analysed by a legal firm, show the clear disadvantage and worsening picture for single...

Mortgage rates may be falling but tougher lending criteria is stifling many borrowers, including high earners. Research by Investec has found the...

Mortgage lending criteria and products are failing to keep up with more energy-efficient homebuilding techniques, it has been claimed. The Home Builders...

100% mortgages are rumoured to be making a comeback. The products were blamed as a cause for the 2008 financial crash, with...

First-time buyers in the UK are paying almost a third more to get on the property ladder than they were five...

Usually, I enter January with a spring in my step - optimistic about what the future holds.  Two years ago, after the...

Over the later part of 2022, we have experienced unprecedented economic and political turmoil, which will remain as we head into...

The property market is ‘recalibrating’ but should be seen in context of economic events, agents are being urged. Kris Mclean, managing director...

As economic signs increasingly point to a contraction in the property market, competition for new business will inevitably heat up. But...

Hundreds of thousands of mortgage applications could fail in the coming decade as lending criteria tightens amid the cost of living...

The average monthly mortgage payment for a household buying a first-time buyer home would increase to £1,302 if the average mortgage...

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng is expected to unveil the Government’s so-called “plan for growth” today during a mini-Budget. The property market is...

Long-term 50-year mortgages that can be passed on by parents to their children appear to be the latest idea from the...

Buyers are being urged to act now to secure decent mortgage pricing as interest rates hit a 13-year high yesterday. The Bank...

A property expert has predicted that mortgage applicants are likely to find it 'much harder' to be approved for loans as...

An estate agency owner who is also a qualified independent mortgage adviser has hit out against the suggestion that lenders may...

A broker claims the high profile return of the 95 per cent mortgage has actually made little impact on the housing...

The housing market in England and Wales is stabilising, according to analysis of web traffic from a property advice site.  Valuation requests...

A Bank of England survey suggests it may be more difficult for prospective buyers to get a mortgage later this year. In...

There’s good news from the think-tank the Resolution Foundation, which says the threat of negative equity because of the Coronavirus crisis...

The outlook for the housing market is still taking shape, but here I take a look at three market indicators to...

Over the last few years, there have been a number of high-profile court cases in which renters took action against letting...

Predictions that landlords are not buying properties to let out because of tougher rental taxes and regulations appear to be short...

Homes in central parts of London sold for a typical 11.5 per cent below asking price in the first three months...

In recent years, estate and letting agents have been faced with a series of tough challenges to absorb and react to. There...

Asking prices of homes coming to the market have fallen for the second month in a row - and Rightmove says...

Rightmove says the housing market is now into a ‘summer sale’ as newly-marketed property shows an average asking price fall of...

A survey of owner-occupiers, landlords, property investors and insolvency practitioners has revealed that Brexit is the single biggest concern when it...

One of the country’s leading experts on the housing market says first time buyers are still hampered from purchasing homes despite...

The number of house sales falling through pre-completion during the first quarter of 2018 reached its highest level for this time...

As the mainstream mortgage market braces itself for yet another clampdown on buy-to-let lending, a growing number of property investors are...

One of the biggest stories post-Brexit is how the housing market has proven to be more resilient than anyone could have...

The average asking price rise for homes coming to the market in the last month has been a chunky 1.3 per...

Rightmove secured over 131m visits last month, an all-time high for January. The 131m total was some three per cent above January...

The rapid growth in popularity of buy-to-let in recent years, fuelled in part by the failings of the pensions industry, has...

The highest number of 'risky' mortgages issued during 2015 was in South West London, according to new analysis of the latest...

This is the final Estate Agent Today until Tuesday January 3 2017, so everyone at Angels Media sends all good wishes for...

Brexit and wider economic uncertainties worsened by changes to property taxation have forced the Council of Mortgage Lenders to cut its...

Forecasts are so last year: who anticipated Bowie, Brexit or Balls for example? Quotes, on the other hand, really ARE last year...

We are now only days away from one of the most-anticipated events in UK politics; one which has a considerable impact...

Estate agents and market analysts have spent 24 hours expressing their nervousness over the repercussions of Donald Trump's victory in the...

One of the first major pieces of research to come from an estate agency following the EU referendum suggests the short-term...

So we now have a new 'official' index of house prices, and much good may it do us. For the chattering classes...

Last time out I spoke about the beginnings of a PropTech revolution, with two major London-based events in the offing over...

More than one in four sales across the UK fell through last year, claims a quick-sale company. Quick Move Now claims a...

Prime Central London’s residential values have risen 4.3 per cent over the past 12 months and now average £2.3m per property...

The Financial Conduct Authority is remaining tight-lipped as to whether its newly-announced assessment of MMR will lead to easier access to...

The demand for homes in the capital remained robust during Q1 2015, according to Chestertons’ London Prime Residential Report for spring...

With pension reform, council licensing changes and a General Election on the horizon, many are anticipating a boom in the buy-to-let...