First-time buyers

BUDGET 2016: Lifetime ISAs introduced

The government is introducing a new Lifetime ISA for people under the age of...

Santander improves Help to Buy ISA rate

Santander’s new Help to Buy ISA rate is now available from today. The Help to Buy ISA, launched...

New chair for CML Scotland

Carol Anderson has been appointed new chair of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) in...

Year-on-year growth across all types of lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that home-owners borrowed £8.4bn for house purchase,...

Buy-to-let ‘gained chokehold’ over first-time buyers

The proportion of buy-to-let mortgage enquiries on Comparethemarket.com grew by 4.4% to 18.2% during...

The Skipton unveils Help to Buy London & Scotland ranges

The Skipton Building Society has introduced new product ranges for both the Help to Buy...

Halifax Intermediaries reduces FTB and homemover rates

Halifax Intermediaries has cut the rates on its first time buyer and home mover mortgages by...

Government Housing Schemes Matrix unveiled by L&G

Legal & General Mortgage Club has launched its new Government Housing Schemes Matrix. The Matrix...

Homebuyers waiting over three years to buy

51% of Britons are considering buying their first home or moving house, according to...

FTBs consider a load of barracks

Latest research has highlighted the extent to which first-time buyers are prepared to get...

L&G unveils shared ownership event

Legal & General Housing Partnerships has warned that mainstream mortgage advice needs to include discussions...

Halifax introduces new remortgage offer

Halifax has unveiled a new offer for customers looking to remortgage direct with the...

BoE reports strong lending start to 2016

Latest statistics from the Bank of England show the number of loan approvals for house...

New low for housing supply

The National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has warned that supply of available housing...
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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Economy

Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...
Buy-to-let

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...
News

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...
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Co-operative Bank in sub-4% mortgage arena following rate cuts 

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates, bringing...

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