First-time buyers

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%...

Intermediaries report stronger landlord demand

As mortgage activity increased in the third quarter of 2017, so did confidence amongst...

Annual rate of house price growth eased in November

Halifax has reported that house prices between September and November 2017 were 2.4% higher...

£81k needed for a deposit by 2027?

The average first-time buyer deposit could be set to rise by nearly 60% over...

Industry reviews 2017 sales and lettings performance

NAEA and ARLA Propertymark have published sales and lettings data for 2017. NAEA Propertymark found...

COMMENT

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...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost?...

MIMHC makes final call as charity lunch nears capacity

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has made a final call for industry...

Virgin Money to move eligible product transfers to Nationwide from October

Virgin Money is changing its residential product transfer process, with some customers whose deals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

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