First-time buyers

Virgin Money improves 90% offering

Virgin Money has made changes to its 90% LTV products. It has also made changes...

Skipton to launch new mortgages for government help schemes

The Skipton Building Society is launching a series of products linked to Government help...

United Trust Bank unveils first-time buyer deals

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a range of first-time buyer residential mortgages. The products are...

Government mortgage guarantee scheme rumoured

Speculation has been mounting that the government may introduce a mortgage guarantee scheme to...

Average gifted deposit tops £40k

Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them get...

Virgin Money cuts residential mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made a series of rate cuts in its range of residential...

Q3 rebound for Help to Buy completions

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published Help to Buy equity loan statistics for...

New 90% deals from the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has cut the rates on two of its recently relaunched...

First-time buyers most hit by affordability squeeze

The average maximum loan available to mortgage borrowers fell to a record low in...

Credit concerns looming over renters

45% of renters surveyed for Aldermore say owning a home is a life goal...

Help to Buy legal completion date extended

The government has announced that while Help to Buy will end on 31 March...

Skipton issues new 90% shared ownership deals

The Skipton Building Society is launching a pair of new 90% shared ownership products. The...

Change in January second charge criteria searches

Knowledge Bank's latest monthly criteria index shows the second charge market saw the biggest...

NatWest cuts new and existing customer rates

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has introduced a range of rate decreases across its new and...
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COMMENT

networks

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...

Latest news

Buy-to-let

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...
News

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...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

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

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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