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Its House Price Index revealed that the average house price drop in England & Wales fell 0.3% from August to September and is down 2.3% on the year. Transactions meanwhile increased 9.5% from last month. The Greater London area continued to be the only region able to...

With 34,100 loans taken out (worth ?4.2 billion), remortgaging up by 30pc on August 2010. House purchase lending also rose in August according to the CML data. There were 52,000 loans advanced (worth ?7.9 billion), up from 48,700 (worth ?7.2 billion) in July and from 51,000...

Woolwich push into buy to let lending at the moment David Finlay, intermediary director at Barclays, said he was aiming to build the lender’s presence in the market significantly next year. He said: “We’re aiming to beef up our buy to let offering as the market...

Sales of properties under the Right-to-Buy scheme, the reason for the biggest increase in home ownership in the last 50 years, continue to be well down on previous years, according to research by HSBC. On 3 October 1980 the Housing Act paved the way for 2.5 million council home...

This is in contrast to the first half of the year when demand had been steadily rising, according to the latest house prices survey from Hometrack. On the supply side, the number of new properties coming to the market in the 9 months up until September, grew by 22%, compared to...

The biggest hurdle for 43% of intermediaries was stricter credit scores in finding a mortgage for clients looking for a loan of more than ?500,000. Self-employment was the second biggest stumbling block with 37% of intermediaries saying they had trouble finding the right mortgage...

More than a third of landlords (34%) have increased rent levels across their property portfolio in quarter three, compared to 29% in quarter two. Just over 10% of landlords said their rental income had increased by between 2% and 4%, whilst 13% of landlords increased rents above...

The anniversary of buy-to-let sector was 15 years old on 24 September 2011 having been launched by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) back in 1996 at the RAC Club, Pall Mall. Buy-to-let was developed in response to the surge in demand for rented property...