First-time buyers

Kensington unveils £500k+ mortgage proposition

Kensington Mortgages has launched Premier, a new range of higher value mortgages for borrowers...

6.2% rise in first-time buyer property prices

Rightmove has reported a May rise of 0.4% (+£1,118) in the price of property...

Lloyds Bank cuts FTB rates

Lloyds Bank has reduced its rates on its mortgage products designed to support first-time...

CML reports quieter April for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that home-owners borrowed £8.1bn for house purchase...

Halifax reduces first-time buyer rates

Halifax has lowered the rates on its mortgage products aimed at first-time buyers. The changes apply to...

New Help to Buy deal from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has launched a new 1.49% discounted variable rate Help to...

Valuation activity resilient ahead of referendum

Connells Survey & Valuation has revealed that valuation activity in May rose by nearly...

YBS cuts fee-free FTB rates

The Yorkshire Building Society has reduced its rates on mortgages for borrowers who want to...

Solution proposed to ‘holistic’ debate

The Society of Mortgage Professionals says it is confident that the Financial Conduct Authority's...

IMLA sees further growth for FTB market in 2016

Homemovers had the highest success rate for turning mortgage applications into completions during the first quarter...

The Skipton removes FTB max loan size cap

The Skipton Building Society and its intermediary lending arm, Skipton Intermediaries, have removed their maximum...

It takes two FTBs… to buy a property

Latest research from the Nottingham Building Society shows 63% of first-time buyers bought as...

Virgin Money unveils HTB London deals

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

Two-year high for FTBs

First-time buyer activity has reached a two-year high, according to the latest First-Time Buyer Tracker...

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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