First-time buyers

Halifax offers new deals and interest rebate

Halifax is offering homemovers and first-time buyers two months' interest back on their mortgage. The...

Government reveals latest Help to Buy stats

Over 73,000 homes have been bought under the government’s Help to Buy schemes. Latest figures...

IMLA calls for a coherent housing strategy

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has called for a root and branch review...

50% rise in first-time buyers in the past two years

The number of first-time buyers rose by 22% in 2014, according to the annual...

Transactions fall to same level as last November

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £16.9 billion...

Aldermore celebrates Help to Buy anniversary

Aldermore has issued some revealing statistics about its Help to Buy customers, as it...

Rate cuts from the Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on three high LTV...

Majority earned less than the average home over past year

The average house in the UK earned more than the average worker in the...

CML: positive direction of travel for mortgage market

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has confirmed that gross mortgage lending reached £18.6...

Lending to higher LTV borrowers down 12%

E.surv has calculated that there was the smallest number of higher LTV borrowers last...

Surveyors expect SDLT changes to reverse sales dip

The latest RICS Residential Market Survey indicates that while national house price growth fell...

Gross advances up 13% year-on-year

The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the latest Mortgage...

SortRefer promotes its Stamp Duty-updated system

Online conveyancing portal SortRefer has changed its quotation system to reflect the changes to...

Chancellor reforms Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty Land Tax will be revised from midnight tonight. Chancellor George Osborne has announced...
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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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