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- Property industry welcomes extension of flood agreement
- Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks lower fixed rate mortgages
- More borrowers favouring longer-term fixes
- Key worker house purchase affordability improves
- First-time buyer activity up again in March
- 250,000 over 50s say they will have to sell their home to pay off their mortgage
- Leeds reduces first time buyer mortgage by up to 0.50%
- Toolbox of mum and dad plugs the DIY skills gap
- Young adults fail to cut ties with home
- London leads the house price growth trends
- Homeowners could face hefty bills for disastrous DIY
- Virgin Money updates mortgage range
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House Prices
Key worker house purchase affordability improvesLatest research from Halifax shows the ability of key public sector workers to purchase their own home continues to improve and is approaching the level achieved ten years ago before the house price boom. The Halifax research shows that – based on the benchmark ratio of average house price to average earnings, where housing is [...]
Mortgages
More borrowers favouring longer-term fixesNew evidence supports Yorkshire Building Society’s findings that more borrowers are choosing to fix their mortgage for the longer term as economic conditions remain uncertain. The latest research from global business intelligence provider RFi shows the proportion of borrowers taking out a fixed rate mortgage “long term” (for more than three years) has been rising [...]
Key worker house purchase affordability improves
Latest research from Halifax shows the ability of key public sector workers to purchase their own home continues to improve and is approaching the level achieved ten years ago before the house price boom. The Halifax research shows that – based on the benchmark ratio of average house price to average earnings, where housing is [...]
North beats south in rental yields
Research commissioned by specialist buy-to-let lender Paragon Mortgages, has shown a significant regional shift in the rental yields achieved by landlords. Those achieving the highest average yield were in the North West, generating a yield of 6.6% – an increase from 5.9% in Q4 2011. The Northern regions dominated the top spots, with landlords in [...]
