Mortgages

Why are millennials so turned off by the Tory party?
Amid housing crisis, post-Brexit drag and hardline migration rhetoric, most 25- to 40-year-olds think party deserves to lose next election
Heather Stewart
30, May, 2023 @5:24 PM

Almost 800 UK mortgage deals pulled as concerns mount over interest rate rises
Number of residential deals down by almost 7% in a week, in echo of crisis that followed Liz Truss mini-budget
Rupert Jones, Phillip Inman and Kiran Stacey
30, May, 2023 @4:44 PM

Is it worth playing the waiting game in the hope of a better mortgage deal?
As costs rose yet again last week, with a warning to expect 5%-plus fixed rates, we look at the options for homebuyers
Shane Hickey
29, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

UK mortgages: ‘How did a £42,500 loan turn into a £477,000 debt?’
A Bank of Scotland offshoot faces questions over loans that shared in the rise in a home’s value. We talk to one of hundreds of families affected
Rupert Jones
27, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

UK homeowners and first-time buyers warned to brace for 5%-plus mortgage rates
Lenders forced to raise fixed-term deals after latest inflation figure pushed swap rates upwards
Miles Brignall and Phillip Inman
25, May, 2023 @3:24 PM

A broker told me I don’t earn enough for a London mortgage. Is that true?
I have lived at the family home all my life, I earn £26,000 a year and have about £60,000 for a deposit
Virginia Wallis
22, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

UK mortgages: time to switch and fix to save up to £400 a month
Average SVR at highest level for more than 15 years as number of home loan products available jump
Rupert Jones
20, May, 2023 @7:00 AM

The war on Japanese knotweed
The long read: Once hailed as a ‘handsome’ import, this most rampant of plants has come to be seen as a sinister, ruinous enemy. Can it be stopped?
Samanth Subramanian
16, May, 2023 @5:00 AM

Give customers a fair deal or else, finance regulator warns sector
The Financial Conduct Authority will soon launch the ‘consumer duty’, a tough new regime supposed to ensure firms put people’s needs first
Shane Hickey
15, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

Would not having a permanent UK address affect my a mortgage application?
I’m renting now but want to spend a year as a digital nomad before trying to buy a house
Virginia Wallis
15, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

Soaring interest rates to cost UK mortgage holders £12bn in extra payments
Impact of Bank of England’s decision to hike rates to 4.5% will be felt mostly by young families, thinktank says
Phillip Inman
12, May, 2023 @11:01 PM

‘We won’t be able to pay this much’: UK interest rate hike hits home
Families who have remortgaged or are about to do so tell of a precarious position after rate raised to 4.5%
Jedidajah Otte
11, May, 2023 @1:13 PM
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