First-time buyers

Kensington to move into Help to Buy

Kensington Mortgages intends to launch a Help to Buy equity loan proposition for London,...

Accord to continue with welcome boxes

Accord Mortgages is set to continue with its welcome box initiative following a positive...

Growing social divisions in UK housing market

2016 saw the role of cash in funding house purchases reach a post-recession high,...

Platform ups loan to income ratio

Platform has increased the loan to income ratio for qualifying mortgage applicants.  The intermediary mortgage brand...

Halifax reports quarterly fall in house prices

Halifax has revealed that house prices fell by 0.2% over the past three months. It...

Halifax Intermediaries unveils grand cashback offer

Halifax Intermediaries is offering first-time buyers and homemovers £1000 cashback on qualifying mortgages. The...

Cost of buying and moving home to continue to rise

The combined ‘additional costs’ of moving home, such as estate agent fees and conveyancing costs,...

FTBs facing relationship strain and stress

Aldermore’s latest quarterly First Time Buyer Index has found that the process of buying a first...

New Family Assist products from the Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Building Society has launched a range of Family Assist mortgage products featuring £1,000 cashback...

Rise in importance of the Bank of Mum and Dad

The 'bank of Mum and Dad' will lend over £6.5 billion in 2017, up...

IMLA predicts 6% market growth this year

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) believes this year the mortgage market will achieve the highest...

FTB sales rose slightly in March

March saw the number of properties available to buy on estate agents’ books fall to...

Nationwide makes cuts to fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society has cut rates on certain two and five-year fixed and two-year tracker...

Increase in popularity of early inheritances

New research from Key Retirement has revealed that parents want to give away an...

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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