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Mortgage lending figures

May 2024

  • a young couple look at properties for sale in an estate agent window

    Are 25-year UK mortgages a thing of the past?

  • Multicoloured row of terrace houses in London

    UK house prices fall unexpectedly for second month in a row

April 2024

  • Nationwide building society on a high street with pedestrians walking past

    Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties

    Banks may follow suit after UK weather-related claims on home insurance reach new high
  • Barclays logo on a bank close up

    Barclays profits tumble 12% as UK interest rates hit mortgage demand

    Pre-tax profits drop to £2.3bn between January and March, down from £2.6bn last year
  • Signs mark homes being sold or available for sale in London

    Leading UK lenders raise fixed-rate mortgage deals amid ‘market uncertainty’

    Borrowers urged not to panic as banks including Barclays, NatWest and HSBC readjust cost of loans

March 2024

  • a for sale sign outside one of a line of pastel-coloured terraced houses in Brighton – cream, pale blue, yellow, peppermint green and white, seen in close-up view of their ground and first floors to form an abstract image

    UK mortgage arrears rose 9.2% in 2023 last quarter amid ‘surge in borrowing costs’

    Mortgage balances with some arrears at highest value since late 2016, Bank of England data shows
  • A Nationwide branch in Belfast.

    Nationwide to buy Virgin Money in £2.9bn deal

    Lenders reach preliminary agreement on key terms in deal to create new competitor with £366bn in assets
  • Red sold signs on the balconies of a newly constructed residential apartment block in Ebbsfleet, UK

    Mortgage reforms have excluded first-time buyers, say UK building societies

    Report calls for overhaul of rules on loan affordability and repayment, and more flexible mortgage products

January 2024

  • Silhouette of two people looking at homes for sale in an estate agents window

    Property
    Number of UK first-time buyers in 2023 was lowest in a decade

    Figure estimated to be down by a fifth, as rising interest rates and high house prices had impact

November 2023

  • A house with for sale and sold signs outside

    New mortgage deal falls below 5% in ‘watershed moment’ for UK homeowners

    Nationwide’s two-year fixed rate deal offered at 4.99% as lenders jostle for customers

October 2023

  • A row of painted terrace houses in Berkshire.

    Buyer’s market fuels fastest fall in UK house prices in 14 years

  • Metro Bank sign.

    Metro Bank considering raising hundreds of millions from investors

September 2023

  • People look at properties in the window of an estate agent

    Average five-year fixed mortgage rate in UK falls back below 6%

    First time since early July that average rate has been below 6%, with some deals now under 5%
  • buy to let signs adorn a red brick terraced street in Sheffield

    UK ‘mortgage meltdown’ looms amid ‘terrifying’ growth in arrears

    Jump in borrowers unable to make payments with landlords particularly hit and ‘worse to come’
  • Estate-agent signs showing "for sale" and "sold"

    New UK mortgage lender Perenna offers 30-year fixed-rate deals

    Startup bank’s deals range from 6.5% to 7.5%, ‘comparable with two-year fixes at the moment’

August 2023

  • A photo of EasyJet aircraft in Berlin.

    Business live
    Rishi Sunak says airlines must help stranded passengers after ‘dodgy flight plan’ caused meltdown – as it happened

    Rolling live news coverage of business, economics and financial markets as disruption to UK air travel continues into third day

July 2023

  • a smattering of for sale and sold signs in Maidenhead, Berkshire

    UK mortgage approvals rise despite surge in borrowing rates

  • terrace housing in York

    UK GDP: mortgage payers’ worst fears are likely to come true

June 2023

  • Jeremy Hunt

    Mortgage pressures will not tip UK into wave of repossessions, FCA says

  • The Bank of England

    Markets predict 6% UK interest rate by end of year

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