First-time buyers

The Nationwide cuts rates at 95% LTV

The Nationwide Building Society has cut selected fixed and tracker mortgage rates at 95%...

The Leeds supports shared ownership stamp duty cut

The Budget’s Stamp Duty cut for shared ownership first time buyers has been welcomed...

BUDGET 2018: Help to Buy extended

The government announced in yesterday’s Budget that Help to Buy will be extended until...

Prospective first time buyers want empty homes addressed in the Budget

34% of people looking to buy their first home want the government to introduce...

The Newcastle unveils cash Lifetime ISA

Newcastle Building Society has launched a cash Lifetime ISA at a variable rate of...

Bluestone Mortgages extends Help to Buy range to Wales

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the extension of its Help to Buy range in Wales. Last...

Millennials making unprecedented sacrifices for property ownership

In order to get onto the property ladder millennials, aged 18-34, are having to...

The Skipton expands mortgage offering for Lifetime ISA customers

The Skipton Building Society has widened the range of mortgage products available exclusively to...

Average first-time buyer gross household income is £42k

UK Finance has reported that there were 35,500 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

There’s still much work to do

If a week is a long time in politics – and given recent events...

Lenders look for clarity on Help to Buy’s future

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is seeking clarity from the government around the future...

Northern regions are best for young buyers

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv found that first-time buyers and others with small...

Magellan Homeloans moves into Help to Buy

Magellan Homeloans has announced its entry into the Help to Buy sector. The specialist lender...

Marsden Family Step mortgage now open to all brokers

The Marsden Building Society has made its previously exclusive product range available to the...

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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