First-time buyers

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: London housing market

The government has announced that it will extend the Help to Buy: Equity Loan...

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: Help to Buy

In today's Spending Review, the Chancellor announced 135,000 Help to Buy: Shared Ownership homes...

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: starter homes

200,000 Starter Homes which will be sold at a 20% discount compared to market...

Autumn Statement & Spending Review: speech in full

Mr Speaker, this Spending Review delivers on the commitment we made to the British...

Aldermore outlines Help to Buy ISA plans

Aldermore has revealed it will launch a Help to Buy: ISA on 1 December...

Accord cuts rates in 90% LTV range

Accord Mortgages has cut its residential rates by up to 0.30 percentage points across...

Coventry for Intermediaries reduces 90% LTV rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut interest rates across its range of residential mortgages at 90%...

House prices up 6.1% year-on-year

UK house prices increased by 6.1% in the year to September 2015, up from...

Rightmove: indications of higher house prices in 2016

Rightmove has reported the smallest drop since 2011 in new seller asking prices (-1.3%)...

The Co-op unveils new 90% deals

The Co-operative Bank has launched a new range of mortgages, including low rate two year and...

Best October lending since 2008

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv has revealed that October 2015 saw the highest...

Growing volumes of first-time buyer lending

First-time buyers accounted for 19% of intermediary business over the last three months, the...

CML: rise in first-time buyer activity

First-time buyers saw month-on-month and year-on-year increases in activity by volume and by value in September,...

Accord cuts 90% LTV rates

Accord Mortgages is reducing its mortgages for customers with a 10% deposit by up to...

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Trump’s crazy tariffs could actually be good news for UK landlords

In an unexpected twist, Donald Trump’s return to the global stage with a fresh wave of tariffs could end up doing UK landlords a...

The business case for Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of the daily news agenda for a couple of years now and there are tremendous opportunities for the...

Rise of AI: from virtual assistants to strategic value

Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries. It’s streamlining operations, creating new possibilities. The shift is no longer theoretical, even in the mortgage industry; it’s now...

Imposter syndrome & anxiety: how nutrition and lifestyle can help

Have you ever felt like a fraud, despite your achievements? Like you don’t truly deserve your success, and at any moment, someone will find...

Don’t knock 100% mortgages – they’re viable and necessary

I’ve read a lot of commentary over the past few weeks on the return of 100% mortgages – most of it filled with doom-laden...

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West One reduces residential mortgage rates by up to 30bps and introduces £1,000 cashback remortgage product

Specialist lender West One Loans has implemented a series of rate reductions across its...

Household credit creeps up as lenders point to more optimism… but at a cost

British households are borrowing more – and lenders are increasingly willing to let them...

Newcastle cuts shared ownership rates by up to 55bps

Newcastle for Intermediaries has announced rate reductions of up to 55 basis point s...

Paragon Bank promotes Tim Sweetman to national account role

Paragon Bank has appointed Tim Sweetman as its new mortgages national account manager, marking...