First-time buyers

Generation Z in the dark over home-owning

Research from Halifax has revealed a disjointed picture of home ownership among young people...

FTBs responsible for 81% of Help to Buy equity loans

Over the period since the launch of the Help to Buy: Equity Loan scheme...

Parents expect offspring to move back home to save for own home

Online mortgage broker Habito has found that parents are going to extreme lengths in order to...

High LTV mortgage choice “remains patchy”

AmTrust's latest Mortgage LTV Tracker continues to show that, while the rate differential between...

Newcastle Intermediaries revises FTB mortgage range

Newcastle Intermediaries has refreshed its range of mortgage products with a focus on first...

Halifax introduces £500 cashback offer

Halifax is offering first-time buyers, homemovers and those who remortgage from another lender £500...

Stamp duty changes boost millennial deposit hopes

58% of millennials currently saving for a house deposit are more confident in their...

Barclays Mortgages unveils 1.28% two-year fix

Barclays Mortgages is launching a two-year fixed rate and cutting rates across a number of its...

The Leeds offers £1k Help to Buy cashback

The Leeds Building Society is to add two new mortgages with £1,000 cashback to...

Hometrack: rents to grow 2% over 2018

Richard Donnell, insight director at Hometrack, has explained his three defining themes for the...

TSB cuts shared ownership and shared equity fixed rates

TSB’s two-year fixed rates for shared ownership and shared equity borrowers have been reduced...

Remortgaging trend set to continue

October saw the number and value of loans for remortgaging and for house purchases...

The Credit Crunch and first-time buyers

‘No-one wants to see a return to the pre-Credit Crunch mortgage market.’ This sentence, or...

Homeowners look to improve not move

24% of homeowners plan to move within the next five years and nearly 10%...

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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