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HSBC’s new mortgage range features its lowest ever interest rate – 1.99 per cent on a 2-year discount loan – available to customers with a deposit of 40 per cent of their property value. The range of new loans includes a second two year discount mortgage for...

The reluctant landlords have been a key symptom of the housing market downturn, as homeowners desperate to sell their property turned to the rental market to pay their mortgages. ARLA’s research shows that 80 per cent of its members’ offices have seen property being...

New research from The Co-operative Bank Mortgages reveals that a third of people (35%) are not prepared to drop their asking price at all to sell at the moment. With growing signs of consumer confidence in the housing market, the research also shows that only one in ten would...

Over seventy five percent of countries surveyed have seen a rise in distressed sales in the commercial property market, says RICS research published today. During the second quarter of 2009, RICS surveyed members and other real estate executives in 27 countries across the globe...

The Rightmove House Price Index fell 2.2% in August, with the average asking prices down from ?227,864 in July to being ?222,762, as summer sellers priced more realistically. Rightmove saw record traffic in the month it says, as ?marginal? buyers search hard for property that...

Almost a third (27%) of homeowners are now staying on their lender’s SVR (standard variable rate) according to new research from Unbiased.co.uk, the professional advice website. This has increased from 23% on their lender’s SVR earlier in 2009, highlighting that more...

The number of homeowners renting out a spare room to lodgers triple over the past twelve months according to Abbey Mortgages – over 981,000 people in total and up by 152 per cent from 388,000 in July last year. Today, three per cent (981,000) of homeowners are boosting...

There have been more landlords than ever before as a result of the credit crunch – those ?accidental landlords’ that didn’t really want to be letting but couldn’t sell their property on at a price they were happy with – but now, new research reveals...