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Pepper Money’s Adverse Credit Study of 4,163 people in the UK, 15% had experienced credit problems, including missed payments, CCJs, defaults and arrears, in the last three years.

Of those, 16% said they were planning to purchase a property in the next year, suggesting around 1.26 million people...

Advisers are seeing a surge in over-55s looking to help children and grandchildren onto the property ladder.

The research from Key shows that retired homeowners are increasingly considering cashing in buy-to-lets, acting as guarantors as well as remortgaging or taking out new mortgages (includin...

UK Finance data has revealed that the number of first-time buyer mortgage completions grew by 5.8% to 32,640 in July, compared to the same month in 2018.

In remortgages, the number of completions dipped compared to July 2018. The count of remortgages with new borrowing fell 7.1% to 20,760 and re...

Two and five-year fixed rates fell further over the last month in every LTV tier except for 95%, according to the latest figures from Moneyfacts.

Darren Cook, finance expert at Moneyfacts, said: On 25 September 2017, the average two-year fixed rate reached its record low of 2.17%, which is 0.27%...

A recent Buy-to-Let Conference by UK Finance discussed the effects that the tax and regulatory changes in the last three years has had on the buy-to-let sector, and the direction that the market has been heading in the last 18 months.

Market overview
The most pronounced effect that these changes...

Rise in home movers for the first time in three years

There has been an increase in the number of people moving home for the first time in three years in the first half of 2019.

There were 160,540 home movers in the first half of 2019, up by 810 (1%) compared with the same period in 2018.

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New analysis by Post Office Money, based on data from the Office for National Statistics, has suggested that 56 per cent of homes in the UK are in areas that are affordable for first-time buyers.

The analysis looked at 80 locations across the country and dived into affordability data for neighb...

Can't sell your home? Perhaps it's time to remortgage?

In July, 27.9 per cent of all mortgage completions were carried out by small-deposit borrowers, with Loan-to-Value ratios of 85 per cent and above. This was unchanged from the previous month but higher than the 27.7 per cent recorded in May....

The average five-year fixed-rate mortgage has fallen from 2.84% to 2.79% in the last three weeks after the five-year swap rate dipped below the two-year rate on the 2nd of August for the first time in 11 years.
Darren Cook, a finance expert at Moneyfacts, said: “It seems that interest rate compet...