First-time buyers

Strong January for buy-to-let

Connells Survey and Valuation has reported that the buy-to-let sector surged ahead of other...

FTBs target for new Barclays stepped deals

Barclays has introduced two fixed rate stepped mortgages. The are designed to help reduce the...

New deals from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society is reducing mortgages across its range by up to 40bps. The...

Paradigm expands lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added the Ipswich Building Society to its lender panel. The Ipswich...

New deals from the Chelsea

The Chelsea Building Society is offering 1.49% two-year fixed rate mortgage at 75% LTV...

Estate agents see December boost from stamp duty changes

The latest Housing Market Report from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) has...

The Yorkshire unveils two-year fix at 95% LTV

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched a 4.49% mortgage for borrowers with a 5%...

Highest number of FTBs for eight years

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £16.5...

Highest deposit levels since October 2013

The latest National Mortgage Index from Mortgage Advice Bureau has revealed that average house...

The Leeds changes attitude to gifted deposits

The Leeds Building Society has moved to simplify its policy on gifted deposits...

The Nationwide slashes Save to Buy rates

The Nationwide Building Society has cut all of its 95% LTV Save to Buy...

CML: fall in home purchase lending

House purchase lending to home-buyers fell month-on-month in November totalling 55,600 loans, according to...

New mortgage lender launches

Pepper UK Limited has launched mortgage lender Pepper Homeloans into the UK market. A...

The Leeds backs Scottish HTB scheme

The Leeds Building Society has signalled its support for the Scottish Government’s new HTB...
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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...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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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...
Regulation

MorganAsh urges financial services firms to improve support for unpaid carers

MorganAsh has backed a new Carers UK blueprint aimed at building more carer-friendly communities,...

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