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Mortgage rates

  • Mortgages rates set to fall after Bank of England interest rate cut

    Property

    Analysts have predicted that the Bank of England’s decision to reduce interest rates on Thursday will encourage major banks to cut mortgage rates. Lower rates will be a major affordability boost for the UK’s housing market, which continues to price out young buyers unable to rely on financial gifts or savings. “If homebuyers can borrow more, they [...]

  • HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds: Lenders bank on interest rate cut as mortgage ‘price war’ heats up

    Banking

    Top UK lenders are offering more mortgages to prospective house buyers, the Bank of England has revealed, as falling interest rates stir up a “price war” on the high street.  The Bank’s credit conditions survey revealed that the burgeoning supply of mortgages would come against a levelling off in demand in the three months to [...]

  • UK house prices hit record high in April despite stamp duty changes

    Property

    The average UK house price rose 1.4 per cent in April despite fears of a market slowdown in the wake of changes to stamp duty. UK house prices hit a new record high of £377,182, according to Rightmove. Analysts said that lower mortgage rates have offset the impact of stamp duty changes and the typical [...]

  • First-time buyers ‘becoming less reliant on parents’

    April 8, 2025

    First-time buyers are completing on their homes with less help from their parents – albeit slightly later in life – according to new data. First-time buyers who received money from a friend or family member went from 34 per cent of buyers in the first quarter of 2024 to just under 30 in the first [...]

  • First-time buying pushes house prices up ahead of stamp duty deadline

    February 28, 2025

    First-time buyers continued to drive the housing market in February as they rush to purchase homes before the end of the stamp duty holiday at the end of March. The annual rate of UK house price growth was 3.9 per cent in February, compared with 4.1 per cent in January. House prices rose by 0.4 [...]

  • Home repossessions rise as higher interest rates bite borrowers

    February 10, 2025

    The number of homeowners with mortgages facing repossession rose in the fourth quarter of 2024 as buyers struggled with higher interest rates. UK Finance figures show that repossessions rose 12 per cent in the last three months of 2024 compared to the previous year and were up 54 per cent yearly. Overall, 1,030 residential houses [...]

  • Mortgage rates to rise on back of bond market turmoil

    January 10, 2025

    Gilt yields influence the mortgage market through swap rates, the main benchmark for mortgage lending in the UK.

  • Mortgage approvals fall faster than expected in wake of Budget

    January 3, 2025

    65,700 mortgages were approved in November, down from 68,300 in October and comfortably below economists' expectations.

  • UK mortgage approvals rose to more than two-year high before Budget

    November 29, 2024

    UK lenders approved the most mortgages in more than two years last month as Britain’s housing market proved resilient ahead of the new government’s first Budget. Banks and building societies gave the green light to 68,300 loans for house purchase in October, according to data from the Bank of England. That figure is the highest [...]

  • Housing market continues to strengthen as mortgage rates fall

    October 29, 2024

    New figures from the Bank of England showed that 65,600 new mortgages were approved in September, the highest figure since August 2022.

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