The UK’s stamp duty holiday greatly encouraged mortgage uptake among house hunters eager to enter the property market. This is the suggestion of new figures from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA), which found people looked to snap up Read more…

Mortgage deals sought by home-movers or first-time buyers are likely to be impacted by a slight UK house price decline recorded for March. According to new figures from Nationwide, the cost of a typical dwelling dipped by one per cent Read more…

Yorkshire Building Society is offering conveyancing costs help to all of its mortgage customers. The organisation announced it will extend assistance with valuations and legal fees to each of its borrowers in a bid to relieve some of the financial Read more…

Coventry Building Society has unveiled a new range of offset and buy to let mortgages. The collection is being promoted as an ideal choice for borrowers requiring a bigger loan, as the products come with flat fees. Colin Franklin, sales Read more…

Strong rental yields are being enjoyed by landlords throughout the UK who are making use of buy-to-let mortgages, new research has suggested. Carried out by BM Solutions, the study revealed 6.1 per cent yields in 2011 were achieved as a Read more…

The Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has finalised the acquisition of former home loan rival Mortgage Talk. As a result, the number of advisors belonging to the group is to be boosted significantly. MAB currently has 350 such professionals on its Read more…

The Budget week is offering little in the way of mortgage help for first-time buyers (FTBs), it has been suggested. According to the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA), the seven-day period is seeing FTBs hit with a “double whammy”, Read more…

First-time buyers (FTBs) in the UK are currently facing a sizeable mortgage deposit gap, new research has shown. According to unbiased.co.uk’s Advice Drivers report, house hunters looking to secure a 75 per cent loan-to-value home loan on an average first-time Read more…

The Co-operative Bank has unveiled a new range of mortgages designed to benefit first-time buyers who failed to take advantage of the stamp duty holiday. A number of fee-free products are being launched to coincide with the end of the Read more…

A high number of people securing their first mortgage in recent years benefitted significantly from the stamp duty holiday, new research has shown. According to estimates from Halifax, an extra four-in-ten first-time buyers (FTBs) have been exempt from the requirement Read more…