First-time buyers

The Yorkshire Building Society makes rate cuts for FTBs

The Yorkshire Building Society has moved to support first-time buyers by reducing its 95%...

70 is age of financial freedom for Millennials

While true financial freedom has likely already arrived for those born on or before...

The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has cut rates by up to 0.69 percentage points on...

New Family Mortgage options from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has launched new Family Mortgage options designed to help families...

Better energy costings could improve mortgage affordability

A new report has concluded that more accurate assessments of home energy bills by...

True 95% LTV product availability continues to fall

The latest AmTrust Mortgage Loan to Value (LTV) Tracker has found that mortgage pricing...

The Loughborough unveils FTB family deposit deal

The Loughborough Building Society has launched its First Time Buyer Family Deposit mortgage. Aimed at...

Help to Buy hitting London FTBs

An estate agent has warned the the London housing market is being badly distorted...

Millennials look to be smart with their mortgages

92% of 18-34 year olds have a repayment mortgage deal, according to research from...

Large deposit buyers at lowest proportion so far in 2017

The proportion of people buying a home with a large deposit fell in May,...

Halifax unveils new cashback offer

Halifax is offering first time buyers, homemovers and remortgage customers £750 cashback on qualifying...

Record average house prices for first-time buyers

The latest Halifax First Time Buyer Review has revealed that the number of first-time...

Parents sacrificing retirement plans to help FTBs

Aldermore's latest quarterly First Time Buyer Index has found that 22% of aspiring first...

Over 240,000 FTBs have used Help to Buy

The Treasury has stated that over 285,000 homeowners, including 240,000 first time buyers, have...

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...

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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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