First-time buyers

First-time buyer uncertainty over stamp duty changes

31% of first-time buyers don’t know if the stamp duty abolition will benefit them...

CPRE fears ‘strategic shrinking’ of the Green Belt

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has wanted that the Green Belt is under...

Stamp duty cut “saved £284 million”

The Treasury has claimed that over the next five years, the cut in stamp...

The Skipton urges Lifetime ISA reprieve

The Skipton Building Society has called on the government to ignore the Treasury Select...

Improvement in first-time buyer product choice

The latest findings from the quarterly AmTrust Mortgage Loan to Value (LTV) Tracker show...

Number of first-time buyers outstrip house movers

The latest Lloyds Bank Homemover Review has revealed that the number of people moving...

L&G to distribute the Marsden’s Family Step range

The Marsden Building Society has teamed up exclusively with Legal and General to offer...

Yorkshire the top location for small deposit borrowers

E.surv has reported that the stable performance of the UK mortgage market during May...

The Skipton moves into 95% LTV market

The Skipton Building Society is now offering 95% mortgages. It believes the launch could provide...

Half of Scots don’t believe they will buy their own home

48% of Scots feel that they will never buy their own home, with 29%...

‘Pre-summer boost’ seen for UK mortgage market

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,200 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

FTBs not taking up Lifetime ISA opportunity

OneFamily research has revealed of the 7.4 million first-time buyers in the UK eligible...

Accord cuts 95% LTV rates

Accord Mortgages has cut rates by up to 0.40 percentage points on two and...

Platform cuts Help to Buy rates

Platform has reduced the interest on select Help to Buy mortgages. The range from the intermediary...

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What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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MPs launch inquiry into OBR’s first 15 years

The Treasury Committee has launched an inquiry to reflect on the Office for Budget...

Atom backs investor’s move into commercial property with £3m warehouse loan

Atom bank has completed a £3 million commercial mortgage to support an established residential...

CHL Mortgages widens upper LTV range with new fixed-rate options

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has expanded its upper loan-to-value range with a series of...

Swansea Building Society expands West Wales leadership remit

Swansea Building Society has promoted Sioned Jones to area manager, West Wales, with effect...

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