First-time buyers

New five-year deal from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has launched a new five year fixed mortgage for first-time buyers, homemovers...

88,000 helped by Help to Buy

Since the launch of the Help to Buy equity loan and mortgage guarantee schemes...

No parental support for nearly half of FTBs

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that nearly half of first-time buyers...

IMLA: find a permanent replacement for Help to Buy 2

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that failing to replace the Help...

HTB1 accounts for nearly one in four housing completions

The Help to Buy equity loan scheme (HTB1) helped to avert a 5% drop...

Genworth partners with the Leek United BS

Staffordshire-based Leek United Building Society is joining forces with Genworth, the provider of mortgage...

Halifax cuts FTB and homeowner mortgage rates

Halifax has increased the maximum loan amounts across its Affordable Housing and New Build...

The Nationwide to launch 2.89% 10-year fix

The Nationwide Building Society is to unveil tomorrow (4 March) the lowest 10-year fixed...

Starter Home Scheme viability questioned

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has questioned whether the Conservative Party's Starter Home Scheme will...

Pension reforms could cripple FTBs, warns friendly society

Savings and ISA provider Scottish Friendly has warned would-be first-time buyers that they have...

Lloyds offers up to £1,000 cashback to homemovers

Lloyds Bank will now refund one month’s standard mortgage payment for qualifying homemovers, up...

HSBC unveils 90% LTV deal at 1.99%

HSBC has launched its lowest ever 90% LTV mortgage rate.   Borrowers with a 10% deposit will...

Dividends to return following LBG’s £1.8bn profit

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has posted pre-tax profits of £1.8bn. It provided £11.9 billion of...

NatWest IS to make widespread rate cuts

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making rate reductions across the vast majority of its residential mortgage range...
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COMMENT

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for stimulus, this time: abolish stamp duty. The logic feels intuitive -...

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

Latest news

Stamp Duty

Cutting stamp duty will make the housing crisis worse

Every time the housing market stalls the same thing happens and people call for...
News

LendInvest bolsters residential and BTL broker support with Glasgow team expansion

LendInvest has expanded its commercial support team with a particular focus on helping brokers...
Technology

Hackathons test property data sharing in homebuying push

Proptech firms have tested how property data can be shared across the home-moving process...
News

Foundation refreshes buy-to-let range with new products and rate cuts

Foundation has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range with new products and rate reductions across...

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