First-time buyers

Shared ownership ‘misunderstood and underused’ by millennials

YouGov national research commissioned by the Leeds Building Society has found millennials aged 18-24...

Two new FTB deals unveiled by the Saffron

The Saffron Building Society has introduced two new reduced rate mortgages for first-time buyers. The...

25% of millennials say partner choice was influenced by desire to buy a home

Online mortgage broker Trussle has found that 11% of home owners admit that their...

Edinburgh FTBs least likely to ask for parental help

First-time buyers in Plymouth are most likely to ask their parents to help pay...

Importance of parental property wealth revealed

A new report published by the Resolution Foundation has concluded that young people whose...

Help to Buy approvals continue to grow year-on-year

Official figures published today reveal that over the period since the launch of the...

Extend Help to Buy ISA, urges Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is calling on the government to extend access to the...

£426m saved in first year of First Time Buyers Relief

More than 180,500 first time buyers have kept the money they would have spent...

FTBs “exploring every available route to get on the ladder”

A survey from the Nottingham Building Society of people looking to buy their first home...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 95% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its rates on a selection of two and five year...

Growth in number of approvals to small deposit borrowers

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market last month. The...

Remortgaging levels out

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,400 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

The Marsden Building Society issues Family Step guide

The Marsden Building Society have published an intermediary overview of its Family Step mortgage...

Accord offers £1k cashback for high LTV borrowers

Accord Mortgages has increased cashback to £1,000 for borrowers at 90% and 95% loan...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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