First-time buyers

First-time buyer homes outpace wider market as affordability improves

First-time buyers are paying more for their homes than they were a year ago...

Stamp duty receipts rise to £9.3bn – but signs of a peak emerge

Homebuyers have paid £9.3 billion in stamp duty between January and August, a 20.6%...

2.5 million homeowners could move if stamp duty scrapped

Around 2.5 million homeowners could be freed to move house if Conservative Party plans...

INDUSTRY REACTION: Badenoch pledges to scrap stamp duty in bid to revive homeownership

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to abolish stamp duty on home sales, describing it as...

Santander calls for homebuying reforms as young buyers bear the brunt of broken system

Younger buyers and families are suffering most from England and Wales’s outdated homebuying process,...

Atom bank widens access to Growth Guarantee Scheme loans

Atom bank has broadened its lending criteria under the government-backed Growth Guarantee Scheme (GGS),...

First-time buyer growth slows as affordability pressures persist

The number of first-time buyers entering the housing market has risen sharply this year...

Pepper Money bolsters regional team with NW appointment

Specialist mortgage lender Pepper Money has appointed Michelle Walsh as regional development manager for...

Government urged to ease court bottlenecks as eviction delays hit housing supply

The government is being urged to intervene to tackle mounting delays in the County...

Barclays expands mortgage flexibility for homebuyers and landlords

Barclays has announced a series of updates to its mortgage policies designed to increase...

Mortgage industry legends back Take Me Home Christmas Charity Concert

Support continues to build for what’s shaping up to be the mortgage industry’s biggest...

Industry welcomes government’s homebuying reforms but warns of deeper challenges ahead

Government plans to overhaul the homebuying process have received a broadly positive response from...

The Mortgage Mum and LIBF launch scholarship scheme

The Mortgage Mum has partnered with the London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)...

Families to save hundreds as Government unveils homebuying overhaul

Families buying and selling homes in England could save hundreds of pounds and weeks...

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

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

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

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

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

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

PROFILES