The office of national statistics or ONS have announced that UK inflation has seemingly dropped in November. A great sign that the measures brought in by the Bank of England in recent months are hopefully starting to work. Inflation is the general rise of prices and...

The role of a mortgage advisor is to help you and guide you in finding the best, most affordable and manageable mortgage deal for your circumstances. For those people who decide to arrange their mortgage on their own, this can sometimes backfire and you may end up...

The UK is currently in, or if not yet very close to a recession after months of shrinking economy and general economic struggles due to various factors. We are all holding our breath and hoping that the measures being put into place by the BOE and the government will...

In a move to help mortgage borrowers to cope with their payments during the ongoing financial crisis that the UK finds themselves in, ministers in the government have called for mortgage lenders to be more understanding and accommodating to those struggling. Lenders...

When my parents bought their first house in their early twenties, they paid around £40,000 and had a very affordable £400 a month 20 year mortgage. The interest rate was 11% at the time....but that is a different lesson from the history books! The average UK salary at...

The biggest news on the property market front is that house prices have dropped in the biggest reduction since the UK financial crisis kicked off. Halifax bank, which regularly releases a house price index, have announced that the average house price has dropped by...

Buy-to-let mortgage lender TMW have announced that they are making changes to their mortgage affordability stress test. But this time, it looks like they are going to be making it easier for borrowers. A great sign that the buy-to-let mortgage market will hopefully be...

Last week, Senior mortgage and protection advisor Jade Pinkerton and Administration manager She-rel Edwards from Oportfolio mortgages joined an exclusive group of mortgage and protection professionals at the PRIMIS mortgage network leading ladies' event in Birmingham....

Twenty7tec has long been a part of the mortgage and protection industry, researching, recording, and offering free of charge statistics and information about finance and financial institutions for borrowers and brokers alike. Regularly they carry out their own...

The Help to Buy scheme was a scheme introduced by the UK government in 2013 as a means of boosting the new build property market and to give more people the chance to purchase their dream home. The scheme ran successfully from 2013 until the end of this year when it...

Finance expert and press officer at Moneyfacts.com Rachael Springall released a report yesterday into the re-emergence of Buy-to-let mortgages over the last week or so after being completely decimated in recent months. The financial crisis that the UK (and the world...

Virgin money for intermediaries, the mortgage lending side of the Virgin conglomerate, have announced that they will be making significant rate reductions for some of their mortgage products. These new low mortgage rates are a good sign that mortgages are slowly...