Property Purchasers

In 2002, newly divorced Graham Topping bought a one bedroom house in Southend on a 25-year repayment mortgage. He had gone through a series of ...

Spain plans to introduce a tax of up to 100% on properties bought by non-residents from non-EU countries, including the UK, to address its housing ...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed it will look at options to simplify the borrower protection rules that were introduced after the 2008 financial ...

Mortgage lenders are beginning to offer first time buyers larger sums of money to borrow through higher multiplier mortgages to help them take their first ...

A 100% mortgage is now available to enable renters to get on the housing market. The mortgage is based on the value of the property ...

Finding the means to save for a deposit to buy a new home in the current climate is becoming harder and harder for first time ...

In the week that the mortgage loan stress test was withdrawn, the Bank of England has increased the base rate to 1.75%. It is thought ...

It is estimated that one in ten properties have sold in the UK without involving an estate agent, as home buyers and sellers decide to ...

House prices rose across the UK in November, confounding predictions that the housing market would cool off over the winter period. A monthly rise of ...

As if buying a house in itself isn't frustrating enough, particularly in times when few houses are available and buyers are being incentivised by government ...

As if buying a house in itself isn't frustrating enough, particularly in times when few houses are available and buyers are being incentivised by government ...

Here's a good wheeze. Instead of buying a townhouse property in Harcourt Street, Marylebone, for £6.4 million and paying huge sums in stamp duty, why ...

It's not difficult to understand why people are attracted to property investment to provide income in retirement. The average UK house price has risen by ...

In the sellers’ market we have today, you would probably expect to be in a good position to sell the property you bought 15 years ...

Moving from the city to a better life in the country has become something of a tradition since property values began to recover from the ...

The long-term impact of Covid is beginning to be felt by people hoping to buy their first house or move home, as some of the ...

With a limited number of houses available on the housing market, the speed at which many properties are selling has prompted concerns over whether home ...

There are just six weeks to go before the end of the stamp duty holiday, when the threshold for paying the tax reduces from £500,000 ...

The first Covid lockdown in 2020 caused the housing market to grind to a halt, leaving property transactions in limbo and home buyers and sellers ...

A flurry of 40 year fixed rate mortgages is expected to become available to offer property buyers longer term mortgages with a deposit of just ...

The Nationwide Building Society has said that most mortgages being taken out by first time buyer are for terms above the average 25 years. Indeed, ...

Estate agents have expressed concerns that lockdown house viewers are travelling out of their own area, sometimes driving hundreds of miles to view property, often ...

The government's revised Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme for home buyers is now open for applications from first time buyers in England. The scheme ...

An investigation by the BBC’s Panorama programme has given an insight into some of the potential pitfalls of shared ownership. Giulia Trovato moved into her ...

Harry Potter fan? You can now live in your ideal home, at the real-life refurbished Hogwarts! Harry Potter is undoubtedly one of the most loved ...

The Covid pandemic caused wide disruption in the housing market and the number of mortgage deals fell dramatically between March 2020 to the beginning of ...

The governments of England and Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland have issued temporary Stamp Duty changes to encourage movement in the housing market that has ...

There is some reported evidence that the anticipated 'Boris Bounce' is beginning to be bear fruit, with the London property market in particular showing increased ...

Property website, Rightmove, has crowned Bristol the most sought after place in the UK outside London for property sales and rentals during 2019. At the ...

In an exercise replicating a Office of National Statistics report published in 2017, that examined how much one square metre costs in different areas of ...

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has appealed to government to reassess the Financial Policy Committee's mortgage stress test for anyone wishing to climb the ...

We all know that buying a property is one of the biggest and most important purchases you will ever make, but property in some areas ...

In the sector's busiest start to any of the six years on record, nearly a billion pounds was raised by the over-55s in the first ...

In the long run, buying a house is less expensive than renting and most of us would agree that buying a house is worth the ...

A staggering 3.6 million UK adults borrowed money from friends or family in the last twelve months, according to the Financial Conduct Authority's latest Financial Lives Survey ...

The financial services group, Legal & General, has published new forecasts on the financial support provided to home buyers by the Bank of Mum and ...

The ‘ground rent scandal’ has caused some shocking headlines in recent months: Taylor Wimpey sold our freehold – it will cost £40k to buy it ...