Mortgages

Nationwide says a survey it commissioned suggests three-quarters of people renting privately or living with their parents still want to buy a place of their own despite surging house prices.

April saw the UK housing market look stronger than ever as the annualised rate of house price inflation hit its highest level so far this year, government figures suggest.

Copious amounts of political will are required to ensure Europeans can benefit from long-term fixed-rate mortgages as discussed by the Miles Review, the European Mortgage Finance Agency says.

Around 700,000 endowment mortgage policyholders have been ‘time-barred' from making a mis-selling complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service, alleges a Treasury report.

Britain's housing boom is still going strong as house prices continued to rise last month, the latest survey by Halifax reveals.

Compliance support firm Simply Lifetime has unveiled an IFA-targeted information guide looking at the rules for soon-to-be-regulated home reversion schemes.

A large number of people selling their homes are trading down in order to release some of the equity locked into their property, suggests property website assertahome.com.

Buy-to-let investors show no signs of wanting to sell their properties despite recent rate rise and speculation about a housing market bust, reveals the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Saving enough money to put down a 5% deposit as a first time buyer now takes on average a whole 12 months longer than it did a decade ago, or nearly 4 years research by National Savings & Investments suggests.

Londoners wishing to buy a home will now have to consider splashing out over £250,000 after UK property prices continued to surge last month, according to a survey by Hometrack.