The number of mortgage deals available has returned to the level of early 2008, before the banking crisis reached its peak.Of the 2,557 mortgage types on offer, 64% require at least a 20% deposit and only 2% need a deposit of 5% or less.
Mortgage rationing in the past few years has led to home sales [...]
The consumer group Which? has accused banks and building societies of raising interest rates on homeowners who have standard variable rate mortgages.
Which? warns that thousands will be pushed into financial difficulty when interest rates go up.
More than 40% of mortgage borrowers are now on standard variable rates- which generally start after cheap introductory mortgage deals [...]
Mortgage advances to people buying a home jumped by 8% during April but lending levels remained down on a year earlier new figures show.
Around 40,900 loans were taken out by people moving home during the month, compared with 37,900 in March, but the total was still 2% lower than in April last year, according to [...]
The interest rates charged on fixed rate mortgages fell to a record low during May as lenders passed on reductions in their own funding costs to borrowers.
The average cost of a two year fixed rate deal dropped for the third consecutive month, falling by 0.19% to stand at 3.47%, according to the Bank of England.
Interest [...]
Mortgage lending fell back in April due to seasonal factors the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has found.
The total amount of new funds lent fell by 14% from March to £9.8 billion and was down 5% from April last year.
The figures point to the continued stagnation of the property market, with few sales and prices [...]
Mortgage interest rates have been held at a record low for 25 months now- should you fix your rate or stick on a variable rate?
With the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee voting on interest rates many think that it is a question of when, not if, rates will go up.
Millions of homeowners will be [...]
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