With the new digital ‘property lending check’, homebuyers can for the first time receive real-time information about the likelihood of getting a mortgage on a home before a viewing and well ahead of ...

New data showing a further weakening of the UK jobs market has raised debate about future interest rate falls. Job vacancies have now fallen below the pre-pandemic level of March 2020, down from a ...

The campaign launches as the business celebrates a decade in the lifetime mortgage sector. During this time, L&G’s Home Finance business has helped more than 100,000 customers release more than £6.5 ...

Steve Wood, chief executive at NHBC, explains: “Our figures for the first quarter of this year indicate growing confidence in the market with a 36% increase in developers registering their intent to ...

Key Later Life Lending’s study with over-50s specialists, wealth advisers and general advisers claims to have found 45% saying they were very confident they meet Consumer Duty obligations on later ...

The more important consideration is that markets are pricing in between two and three further cuts this year, which means fixed-rate mortgages are getting cheaper. It should underpin demand in the UK ...

Nationwide has reduced rates for existing customers switching to a new deal or new customers remortgaging by up to 0.22 percentage points. It’s also cutting all two-year tracker product rates by 0.25 ...

Wales and London have seen the most significant decline in buy-to-let purchases. The share of homes bought by a landlord in Wales has fallen by nearly two-thirds over the last decade. Investors made ...

New analysis from UK Finance highlights the impact of family financial support in the first-time buyer (FTB) market – often known as the Bank of Mum and Dad. It looked at assisted and unassisted ...

The Co-Founders of the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter have announced the inaugural MIMHC Charity Ball 2025 – sponsored by Market Financial Solutions.

The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee has announced its latest base rate decision – and it’s a 0.25% cut. Base rate now stands at 4.25%. This is the fourth reduction from last year’s peak of ...

The latest figures for Q1 2025 show that broker searches for remortgaging products have increased by 34% since Q4 2024 – a large uptick that may have been driven by the 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage ...