Tag: mortgage

The Bank of England has recently reported that fixed rates are at record lows. So could the next few months ultimately prove the best time in history to take out a fixed rate mortgage? The…

House price inflation – the annual growth in average house prices – increased to 12.1% in the year to the end of September, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS). This was driven by…

If your answer is ‘I’m not sure’ to either of these questions, then you may not know how a rise in the Bank of England Bank Rate (also known as the ‘Base Rate’) might affect…

Through one of our local estate agency contacts we were asked to contact their clients who were struggling to arrange a mortgage on their purchase. They had spoken to their own bank and one of…

The Government’s Help to Buy (HTB) scheme has brought the prospect of home ownership closer for thousands of consumers in the UK. Whether you are planning to use HTB to buy your first home or…

The New Year often brings resolutions that last for a while and then somehow get overtaken by events; that annual diet, the idea that a ‘dry January’ would be good, the promise to never play…

                Personal finance data company Moneyfacts has just released figures that show the number of mortgages for borrowers who only have a small deposit has increased by almost…