First-time buyer lending appears healthy, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), which has described the mortgage market as “resilient and adaptable”.

Research from the organisation found that first-time buyers borrowed a total of £5.1 billion across 32,000 loans de…

Up to £1.2 billion could be sitting untouched in unused current accounts throughout the UK.

Over a third of Brits (37 per cent) have multiple accounts, but half of these people only use one of them on a day-to-day basis, according to a survey of 2,099 people in December published by Compare…

Around £1.5 billion a year could be being wasted by broadband users who don’t move to a new provider or sign up to a new deal, according to uSwitch.com.

Since 2011, out-of-contract broadband prices have increased by 38 per cent for copper connections and 19 per cent for fibre connecti…

Britain’s housing market is ‘settling down’ after the number of property sales dropped sharply following the Brexit vote, with house prices set to rise steadily for the next five years. Research published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)…

Leigh-on-Sea in Essex has been named the happiest place to live in the UK in an annual survey. Almost 24,000 people from 206 UK areas were asked to rank 12 happiness factors as part of Rightmove’s Happy at Home Index,…

First time buyers considering a ‘fixer-upper’ – a lower-priced, usually tired or rundown, property that they renovate themselves – could save time, hassle and money by bringing in professional help to avoid expensive DIY disasters. That’s according to the National…

The average price of a house in the UK jumped by £2,100 to £214,000 in June, with house values surging in the east of England, according to the Office for National Statistics. This 8.7 per cent overall increase marked a…