If you own a second home, you may now be paying double council tax. But following the news that a council has issued refunds of the 100% premium because it was deemed to have been collected unlawfully ...

If you buy a new build home what protection do you have under the New Homes Ombudsman Service and consumer codes? We take a look. Just to make things a bit more confusing, alongside the New Homes ...

What is an offset mortgage? An offset mortgage is a type of mortgage that allows you to reduce the amount of interest you pay by ‘offsetting’ your savings against your mortgage balance. The mortgage ...

For more of May 2026’s best Lifetime ISAs (cash) and the best Lifetime ISAs (stocks and shares), read on. What is a Lifetime ISA? A Lifetime ISA, or LISA for short, is a type of account designed to ...

Think carefully before securing other debts against your home. Your home or property may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Representative example A mortgage of £230,537 ...

What are bad credit mortgages? Bad credit mortgages are aimed at borrowers with a poor credit history and rating. Some lenders specialise in offering these mortgages although they typically have ...

Furthermore, our latest reserach shows a lack of confidence is holding up domestic building projects, with £11.2bn per year lost to the economy as 1 in 5 households are put off employing builders. Two ...

If you’ve got a 5% deposit and therefore need a 95% LTV mortgage, you’ll likely pay higher rates and have less choice of lenders because lenders see these mortgages as riskier. However, 95% mortgages ...

What is the First Homes scheme? The First Homes scheme offers newly built homes to first time buyers with a discount of at least 30% compared to the market value of equivalent properties. According to ...

Home improvements can transform and add value to your home but it is easy for costs to escalate and projects to go wrong. Our step-by-step guide sets out what to consider with different types of ...

Here’s the latest news on the mansion tax in May 2026. House prices ‘bunching’ below £2m threshold ‘to avoid mansion tax’ House buyers and sellers are striking deals just below mansion tax thresholds ...

The cost of extending your lease depends on the value of the property, the number of years left on the lease, the annual ground rent, the value of improvements done to the property paid by the ...