Consumers using low mortgage rates to overpay on their mortgages could be profiting instead by investing excess cash in savings Borrowers on ultra-low tracker mortgages are being urged to stop overpaying and instead take advantage of some of the top savings deals. Tracker deals have tumbled with Bank...

Yields in the private rented sector have continued to strengthen as buy-to-let landlords experience growing levels of tenant demand, research from Paragon Mortgages has revealed. Paragon’s Trends research, a panel-based survey of experienced landlords, showed that average yields rose to 6.4% in the...

Price expectations rose for the first time since May 2007, supported by low levels of stocks on surveyors’ books and increasing buyer enquiries, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Evidence that activity in the housing market is picking up, albeit from very low levels,...