First-time buyers

Average London FTB house price over £300k

The number of first-time buyer sales in August grew by over a quarter compared...

BBA: largest increase in borrowing for five years

Gross mortgage borrowing in August was £12.2 billion, according to the British Bankers' Association...

NAEA: market reaching “crisis point”

Last month saw an 11-year low in the number of properties available to buy...

RICS sets out ideas to tackle UK housing crisis

Nearly three million homes could be released into the housing market if better incentives and...

Lack of supply behind new house price record

Rightmove's house price index for September has revealed that the price of property coming...

TSB unveils rate changes

TSB has made rate changes to its homemover and first time buyer mortgages and...

Over three years needed for typical FTB deposit

New research from Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks suggests that almost 40% of first time buyers...

9m doubt they’ll ever afford to buy a property

The latest Post Office Money Mortgages survey has found that there 20 million people currently...

Help to Buy rate cut from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has cut the rate of its Help to Buy mortgages. The mutual...

FSE London: home mover activity will improve

The borrower group which has been hit hardest over the past few years by...

Highest monthly FTB lending levels since August 2007

House purchase lending in the UK saw its third consecutive month-on-month growth by volume...

Virgin Money cuts mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made to its residential mortgage range, including adding a a new intermediary...

New 95% deals from the Nationwide

Nationwide has unveiled £1 billion of additional lending over the next year for house...

Third consecutive month of growth in approvals

There was an 18-month high in the number of mortgage approvals for house purchase,...
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COMMENT

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

News

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...
Technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...
Building Societies

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...
Cover

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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