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2 days ago · Paragon Bank has launched its new buy to let mortgage origination platform, which it claims will deliver a faster, smarter and more flexible application experience for intermediaries. …

2 days ago · The landscape of estate agencies is evolving rapidly, bringing new opportunities and challenges in 2025. With rising client expectations, increased competition, and a growing …

“This will make it more difficult to discern the underlying strength of the market. “But, providing the economy continues to recover steadily, as we expect, the underlying pace of housing market …

4 days ago · There’s been a modest improvement to housing affordability over the past year says the Nationwide – but it remains stretched by historic standards. The improvement is down to …

The mortgage sector has reacted positively to the latest house price data. The Halifax says UK house prices finished 2024 up 3.3% over the past year, with the average house price now at …

Other key predictions include an increase in gross mortgage lending from £237.5 billion in 2024 to £275 billion in 2025 (a rise of 16%), growing further to £295bn in 2026 (up 11%), with house …

Jan 20, 2025 · Media reports over the weekend suggest that UK financial regulators have proposed allowing banks to lend more mortgages to first-time buyers with smaller deposits and …

Government figures released over the weekend show that the provisional seasonally adjusted number of UK residential transactions in November was 92,640. This was 13% higher than in …

First-time buyer trends. A 20% increase in first-time buyers seeking our help this year;; Over half (50.8%) of these buyers were aged between 25 and 34;; Surprisingly 1 in 20 (5%) of first-time …