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The property market will benefit from interest rates going down, and rates are expected to keep falling. Good news for anyone looking to buy their first home, move house or remortgage this year – mortgage interest rates are dropping. Rates went up after the...
The new year has started on a good note as asking prices in January have gone up, and monthly mortgage payments are starting to come down. Asking prices for properties have increased by an average of 0.9% in January, according to Rightmove. Despite recent house price...
January has been dubbed ‘Divorce Month’, and older people, in particular, are not settling with their long-term partners if they’re unhappy. Divorce applications in the UK recently reached their highest level in a decade. The no fault divorce law came into force in...
Prices dipped but still remain above pre-pandemic levels, according to Halifax. Find out what the lender thinks 2023 will have in store for the property market. House prices in the UK fell by 1.5% in December compared to 2.4% in November, according to Halifax’s latest...
Zoopla’s UK House Price Index, published earlier this month, reveals that more people will be heading back to urban areas, and flats will see an increased demand in 2023. House prices increased by 7.2% in 2022, according to property website Zoopla (an increase of...
Halifax is expecting property prices to drop in the new year but says the price rises during the pandemic were some of the biggest the market has ever seen. The lender predicts that UK house prices will fall next year by around 8%. However, it says that forecast...
The government’s new 95 Per Cent Mortgage Guarantee Scheme launched on Monday 19 April 2021. The aim of the scheme is to make more 95 per cent mortgages available to those with smaller deposits. First-time buyers can apply but you don’t have to be one to be eligible.
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