affordability

UK Finance reports June mortgage lending recovery

Mortgage lending staged a rebound in June after a subdued start to the second...

Parents turn to property market to support students

Parents are increasingly buying properties near universities to house their children as the cost...

Parents Overstretch Finances in Scramble for School Catchment Homes

Almost half of parents are sacrificing their ideal home and in many cases overstretching...

Sesame adds April Mortgages to panel

Sesame has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving its appointed representatives access...

Together partners with Mortgage Broker Tools to expand specialist lending reach

Specialist lender Together has joined forces with Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) with the aim...

Hull and Sunderland named cheapest cities for student renters

Hull and Sunderland have been named the most affordable cities in Britain for students...

Car finance no longer weighs heavily on mortgage borrowing

Homebuyers with car loans are now able to borrow thousands more on their mortgages...

Landlords in low-yield regions face refinancing strain

Buy-to-let landlords in some of Britain’s most expensive areas are facing a fresh refinancing...

House price growth slows as affordability pressures persist

Annual house price growth eased to 2.1% in August, down from 2.4% in July,...

The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister,...

Vida improves affordability for specialist borrowers

Vida Homeloans has unveiled a series of changes to its mortgage range aimed at...

London’s luxury lettings market surges 154% as wealthy tenants opt to rent

London’s prime lettings market has more than doubled in size during the first half...

3.3 million households locked out of home ownership

More than three million households have been priced out of home ownership since the...

Jitty launches mortgage-linked budget calculator with L&C

Jitty, the AI-driven homebuying platform, has teamed up with L&C Mortgages to launch what...

COMMENT

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

What building the future means for mortgages

Earlier this month I attended the Abundance 360 summit in Los Angeles, Peter Diamandis’s annual gathering of entrepreneurs, scientists, tech CEOs and investors who are,...

Five things brokers across the country are telling me right now

The thing I’ve always enjoyed most about working in the specialist mortgage market is the people. I’m lucky that a big part of my job...

Latest news

Virgin Money raises selected mortgage rates by up to 75bps

Virgin Money is increasing selected purchase, remortgage, buy-to-let and product transfer rates from Thursday...

Property sector must embrace long-term reform to withstand global shocks, says OPDA

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) has called on the government to adopt a...

Rent rises hold steady as UK house price growth slows

Private rents across the UK rose at the same annual rate in February, while...

Movera reports rise in completions as expansion gathers pace

Home moving group Movera has reported a sharp increase in activity across its conveyancing...

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