First-time buyers

Coventry for Intermediaries to re-enter 95% LTV market

Coventry for Intermediaries is to re-enter the 95% LTV market this week, launching new...

Aldermore to offer 95% LTV for limited period

Aldermore has reintroduced its 95% loan to value (LTV) mortgage offering. The 95% LTV products...

Accord cuts higher LTV rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting a number of rates across its 85% and 90% loan...

TSB to offer 95% LTV mortgages next month 

TSB Bank has become to the latest lender to signal a 95% loan to...

The Skipton rejoins 95% LTV mortgage lending space

The Skipton Building Society has launched two new deals as it  re-enters the 95% mortgage...

HSBC cuts rates and extends higher LTV borrowing

HSBC UK has reduced 20 mortgage rates, with cuts of up to 0.1 percentage...

Bank of Ireland moves back into 95% LTV mortgage space

Bank of Ireland UK is returning to the 95% loan to value (LTV) mortgage...

New shared ownership mortgage application process unveiled

A new service from Experian and the New Homes Group is promising brokers to have the...

Accord to reintroduce 95% LTV mortgage

Accord Mortgages is to return to the 95% loan to value (LTV) mortgage market...

Bucks BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services added the Buckinghamshire Building Society to its lender panel. Paradigm member...

Improvement in first-time buyer affordability

The average maximum loan available to first-time buyers recovered in February, according to the...

BUDGET 2021: mortgage guarantee scheme confirmed

Following newspaper headlines over the weekend, the government has confirmed that it will be...

BUDGET 2021: Stamp duty holiday extended

The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has confirmed the extension of the Stamp Duty Holiday until...

YBS unveils new first-time buyer deals

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched two new mortgages exclusively for people taking their...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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