First-time buyers

25% of millennials say partner choice was influenced by desire to buy a home

Online mortgage broker Trussle has found that 11% of home owners admit that their...

Edinburgh FTBs least likely to ask for parental help

First-time buyers in Plymouth are most likely to ask their parents to help pay...

Importance of parental property wealth revealed

A new report published by the Resolution Foundation has concluded that young people whose...

Help to Buy approvals continue to grow year-on-year

Official figures published today reveal that over the period since the launch of the...

Extend Help to Buy ISA, urges Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is calling on the government to extend access to the...

£426m saved in first year of First Time Buyers Relief

More than 180,500 first time buyers have kept the money they would have spent...

FTBs “exploring every available route to get on the ladder”

A survey from the Nottingham Building Society of people looking to buy their first home...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 95% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its rates on a selection of two and five year...

Growth in number of approvals to small deposit borrowers

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market last month. The...

Remortgaging levels out

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,400 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

The Marsden Building Society issues Family Step guide

The Marsden Building Society have published an intermediary overview of its Family Step mortgage...

Accord offers £1k cashback for high LTV borrowers

Accord Mortgages has increased cashback to £1,000 for borrowers at 90% and 95% loan...

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...
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COMMENT

networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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