To add to a steady stream of new mortgage deal announcements, Abbey for Intermediaries is offering a 3.25% two year fixed-rate mortgage to both home buyers and remortgagers. LTV is 70% an there is a fee of £995. The applicants have to have an exisiting Abbey Bank account.

Abbey for Intermediaries considers that this is a [...]

The present stamp duty holiday for properties valued between £125,000 & £175,000 officially ends December 31st.

The scheme, which has been extended once already, saved buyers paying the 1% Stamp Duty for properties valued between those two amounts. It remains to be seen whether the approaching end of the scheme will have any material impact [...]

More good news for first-time buyers and home movers from HSBC.
The bank is making an additional half a billion pounds of mortgage funding available to home buyers with deposits of 10%.
The reason for this additional funding is because there has been an increase in demand from its customers.
It is not known what interest rates [...]