Just like their UK based counterparts, many expats recognise the long term rewards available through investment in UK property. Some will use mortgages to help achieve their goals, so here are a few hints that might help towards a successful application.

When the chancellor announced the mortgage guarantee scheme in his March budget, we said we'd wait to see the details. Now we've got them, and it's not all roses. As well as throwing petrol on the property price fire, they're a really bad deal.

Estate agents, surveyors, mortgage lenders, conveyancers and 200,000 buyers will be offering the Chancellor a collective thank you. The pressure to complete an absurd number of house sales by 31st March is now off. There was also some good news for first time buyers, at least in the short term. A quick glance at the budget from a property perspective and a brief look forward.

In one of the many quirks thrown up by Brexit, British nationals living in the EU may find they have issues landing a UK mortgage. 

In its September report the Bank of England confirmed that it was exploring ways to overcome obstacles to negative interest rates. Opposite to all that we have been brought up with, it feels counter-intuitive, perverse even, but it could very well become a reality.