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The Times
Overpay your mortgage now to save in the long runIf your fixed deal is ending soon your repayments are probably about to soar, but there are ways homeowners can reduce the costs
Mortgage Solutions
Revealed: Brokers’ favourite (and not-so-favourite) lender portals and the features they loveBrokers have urged lenders to focus on simple features when designing broker portals, without introducing adding complications like the need to download an app.
The Intermediary
Stamp duty cuts in Autumn Statement: “Idiotic doesn’t do it justice”With the Treasury considering cuts to stamp duty in the Autumn Statement, or at least before a General Election, experts are divided on the move, with some welcoming it, but many more ridiculing it as...
Estate Agent Today
‘Watershed moment’ as sub-5% mortgages returnMortgage brokers have hailed a ‘watershed moment’ as Nationwide became the first lender in months to release a sub-5% home loan deal on a two and five-year fix.
The Intermediary
Wales Help to Stay scheme: “Help to Stay but of what - execution?” - brokers reactBrokers have expressed their concerns around a new ‘Help to Stay’ scheme launched in Wales, with one saying “Help to Stay but of what - execution?”.
Introducer Today
King’s Speech This Week - leasehold reform backed by mortgage bossesKing’s Speech This Week - leasehold reform backed by mortgage bosses
Mortgage Solutions
How to stop homeownership becoming an ‘elite privilege’‒ broker analysisBrokers have suggested that schemes like the shared ownership programme can prove effective in helping more first-time buyers onto the ladder, and prevent homeownership becoming an elite privilege.
Mortgage Solutions
Jargon busters: Mortgage industry needs ‘crackdown on gibberish’ ‒ analysis - Mortgage SolutionsBrokers hold the key to dealing with mortgage jargon, but the industry as a whole would benefit from a crackdown on meaningless terms, intermediaries have argued.
FTAdviser
Leasehold reforms ‘good news’ for ‘more transparent’ sectorRecently confirmed leasehold reforms are “good news for people who want a clearer and more transparent housing sector”, Moor Mortgages director, Peter Stamford, has argued.
Express.co.uk
Low interest high-fee mortgage deals could be ‘the next big mis-selling scandal’One broker said the low-rate high-fee mortgage products could be “the next big mis-selling scandal”.
The Sunday Times
Self-employed, contractors, even footballers — meet the unmortgageablesBuying a house is hard enough with a traditional job, but for the self-employed, those on low-hours contracts and even footballers, it can feel impossible
Manchester Evening News
How businesses, tourists and mortgage-holders are facing up to the pound’s slumpA weak pound threatens to exacerbate the cost of living crisis and drive up the cost of mortgages and foreign holidays
FTAdviser.com
28-day contracts exchange should be ‘illegal’ say brokersMortgage brokers have expressed concern about new build property developers increasingly putting pressure on prospective buyers to exchange contracts within a 28 day period while no build date has been...
The Times
How freezing energy bills could lead to falling house pricesWill the energy bill freeze save the property market from a crash?
Mortgage Finance Gazette
House prices rise by 11.5% in August, Halifax data showsAverage house prices in the UK lost pace slightly in August, Halifax says, slowing from 11.8% growth in July to 11.5%. This is the slowest annual rise reco
Mortgage Strategy
House price growth ‘eases’ to 11.5%: Halifax | Mortgage StrategyAverage house prices in the UK lost pace slightly in August, Halifax says, slowing from 11.8% growth in July to 11.5%. This is the slowest annual rise recorded by the lender in three months. With prices...
Mortgage Solutions
Brokers argue that AIPs are now ‘worthless’ ‒ analysisBrokers need to accept that the agreement in principles (AIPs) they generate for clients are “not worth the paper they are written on” at the moment, intermediaries have argued.
Freelance Informer
Self-employed and buying a newbuild? Here’s how to avoid “dodgy” developer tacticsIf you are in the market to buy a newbuild property, you don’t have to be rushed into signing anything. Mortgage brokers offer tips to avoid dodgy developer tactics.
Mortgage Professional
Brokers slam new build developers’ ‘dodgy practice’“These unethical developers should be named and shamed”
Financial Reporter
Brokers express concern over new build developer pressure tacticsA number of brokers have expressed concern about new build property developers putting pressure on prospective buyers.
IFA Magazine
“Unethical” new build developers increasingly putting pressure on buyers “should be named and shamed” say brokersBrokers have expressed their concern about new build property developers increasingly putting pressure on prospective buyers to exchange contracts within a 28-
About Manchester
House prices rise in August but warning of cooling as recession bites - About ManchesterHouse prices rose at a faster monthly pace in August than in July but the market is set to cool as surging energy prices hit households and the Bank of England pushes up interest rates, mortgage lender...
IFA Magazine
Nationwide House Price Index: “Obscene rise in energy bills is something that needs to be proactively addressed by lenders”...Following the Nationwide August House Price Index published this morning industry experts have reacted. Ross Boyd, founder of the always-on mortgage comparison
Mortgage Solutions
Brokers reveal that rising energy bills are already impacting lender attitudesBrokers have suggested that the enormous increases to energy bills, along with the other cost of living pressures, are already affecting how lenders approach affordability.
Mortgage Solutions
‘Shovel through the dung to find a gem’ – brokers share their biggest career lessonsAfter surviving Covid, mortgage brokers are now looking down the barrel at rising rates and raging inflation – there’s never a dull moment in this industry.
The Telegraph
House price boom is over as economic turmoil bites, warns HalifaxProperty values rose by 10.8pc in a year but will soon slow
Mortgage Strategy
Cover feature: Brokers struggle as lenders hike rates and pull dealsThere has been a surge of activity in the mortgage market in recent weeks, with hundreds of deals being pulled and lenders hiking rates on many more products. This is causing serious problems for brokers...
Manchester Evening News
House prices climb but warning that demand could slow this yearThe UK property market has had its strongest start to the year in 17 years
Mortgage Solutions
Lenders report ‘surprising’ drop in mortgage demand in Q4 – BoE - Mortgage SolutionsMortgage lenders have reported Q4 falls in demand for house purchase mortgages last year, expected to continue declining in the first quarter of this year.
This Is Money
End of 2021 saw ‘remortgaging flurry,’ Bank of England data showsMore remortgages with new lenders were approved in November 2021 than at any point since the start of the pandemic, according to official figures.
Daily Mail
End of 2021 saw ‘remortgaging flurry,’ Bank of England data showsMore remortgages with new lenders were approved in November 2021 than at any point since the start of the pandemic, according to official figures.
The Telegraph
New 40-year mortgage with no early repayment feeBut homeowners could end up spending more over the long-term, experts warn
MyLondon
The London borough where house prices have gone up by 108% in the last 10 yearsProperty prices in the borough have ballooned over 10 years
The Guardian
Average UK house price rises by £25,000 in a yearCost of a home climbed in every region in 12 months to August, with prices in London rising to £526,000
Financial Reporter
Halifax boosts maximum LTI to 5.5 times salaryFrom tomorrow, Halifax will be changing some of the loan to income limits applied to its affordability calculations.
Business Live
Furlough ends: What leaders are saying as firms prepare for redundanciesIt’s unclear what will happen to the 1m people still receiving income from the scheme
Mortgage Strategy
Tourist hotspot house price rises risk pushing out FTBs and low paid: ONSHouse prices rose at up to three times the national rate in some rural and coastal areas in July, leaving young people and lowly paid workers “at risk of being priced out” of these communities, says the...
CityAM
End of furlough: ‘Time for the UK economy to put its big girl pants on’City A.M. sought the views of a selection of a number of small business owners about whether now is the correct time to remove the support package and what might happen in the months ahead.
Financial Times
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Yahoo Finance
Property: Cheap mortgages lift UK housing transactions to decade-highThe data showed that the total for UK residential transactions is the highest for the period between April and August during the previous 10 financial years.