First-time buyers

First-time buyer transaction levels recover

There was a 28% increase in the number of first-time buyer transactions in May...

Cost of renting continues to rise

Property website Zoopla.co.uk has claimed that the cost of home ownership is cheaper than...

Affordable schemes analysed by Halifax

Halifax has looked at the typical profile of someone buying a home under 'affordable'...

Landlords aren’t to blame for high rental demand

Bob Young, managing director of CHL Mortgages When the housing market was at its...

Lifetime saving from home ownership calculated

Owning your home rather than renting it will save you £194,000 over a 50-year...

Approvals down due to Eurozone crisis

1 Eurozone pressures forced banks to scale back their lending and reduce the number of...

April sees major drop-off in FTBs

April saw a fall in house purchase lending, in particular to first-time buyers, according...

Renters struggling to save to buy a home

Saving to buy a home while renting is looking like a less reliable route...

L&G Mortgage Club grows Progressive partnership

Legal & General Mortgage Club has extended its existing partnership with Progressive Building Society...

May mortgage market sees return to growth

The latest Housing Market Activity Report by Connells Survey & Valuation has reported return...

Property ownership a sign of being ‘grown up’

Almost half of Brits believe that the global economic crisis is forcing people to...

The Yorkshire to cut 90% LTV rates

Yorkshire Building Society is cutting fixed rates on 90% LTV products by up to...

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks in fee-free move

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks will offer a fee-free mortgage offer from 11 June. The Banks...

Worsening conditions for FTBs

Conditions for first-time buyers have continued to worsen, according to research from RBS. The ability...
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A walk on the supply side

The UK government’s stated goal to build 1.5 million homes during the current parliamentary term underlines a strong political focus on addressing the housing...

Don’t build in fear – quality must come before quotas

“This is my message to housebuilders: get on with it. If you promise homes, you have to build them.” - Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 25...

AI won’t replace mortgage brokers – but those who don’t adapt could be left behind, say industry leaders

Artificial intelligence is set to transform the mortgage industry but it won’t replace the role of the broker, according to a panel of sector...

Why the mortgage industry must digitise for the customer, not just for compliance

Home buyers today can manage their finances, verify their ID and even order a sofa for next-day delivery all from their phones. Yet when...

The BBC’s exposé isn’t news to mortgage advisers – but it might be to the public

Let’s be honest, for mortgage advisers, the recent Panorama investigation into conditional selling by estate agents wasn’t so much a revelation as it was...

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results

MAB sees revenues rise 19% as adviser productivity strengthens

Mortgage Advice Bureau has posted a robust trading update for the first half of...
News

Rightmove mortgage revenues double as digital growth strategy pays off

Rightmove has more than doubled the size of its mortgages business in the first...
affordability

Market Harborough eases stress tests to support wider range of residential borrowers

Market Harborough Building Society has announced a relaxation of its interest rate stress testing...
News

CHL Mortgages cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 32bps

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has unveiled sweeping rate cuts across its buy-to-let mortgage range,...

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