First-time buyers

TSB announces rate changes

TSB has reduced residential mortgage rates on a range of its mortgages with larger deposits...

FTB cashback offer from the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society is offering first-time buyers an extra £500 cashback when they complete on...

New higher LTV two-year deals from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has launched a range of two-year fixed rate products for borrowers with...

Aldermore enters HTB London scheme

Aldermore has launched a London Help to Buy mortgage. Under the scheme, the Bank...

NatWest & RBS to offer HTB London deals

NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland have become the latest lenders to support the government’s...

Barclays outlines HTB London offering

Barclays is introducing a range of new shared equity products to support the official launch...

FTB growth steady despite winter slowdown

There was a tradition fall in the number of first-time buyers between November and...

NatWest reduces higher LTV rates

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is cutting rates on a number of higher LTV residential mortgages...

FTBs moving hundreds of miles to afford a home

New research has found that those people who have climbed on to the property...

Changing borrower behaviour behind deposit rise

December 2015 saw the average house purchase deposit surpass £80,000, according to the National Mortgage Index from Mortgage...

New shared equity range from the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is introducing a new range of shared equity mortgage deals on...

NAEA: 2015 not positive for housing market

The supply of available housing has almost halved in the past decade, according to...

New fixes from the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank has launched a new range of fixed rate mortgages, reducing rates across...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has cut the rates on its residential mortgages at 90% LTV and...
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COMMENT

Opinions & blogs

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Technology

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...
Technology

Finova opens Manchester office as AI-led growth creates 50 jobs

Finova has opened a new office in Manchester, creating more than 50 roles as...
Technology

The Mansfield launches broker portal to speed complex case processing

Mansfield Building Society has launched a new mortgage broker portal as it looks to...
banks

Barclays cuts rates across more than 20 mortgage products

Barclays is cutting rates across more than 20 residential mortgage products from Wednesday 22...

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