First-time buyers

MMR dampening interest from lower earners

The Q3 2014 Mortgage Search Tracker from Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has found that...

Nationwide offers new 10-year range

The Nationwide Building Society is to offer 10 year fixed rate mortgages from Wednesday...

Halifax cuts 90% LTV rates

Halifax has cut the rates on its two-year 90% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgages by 0.75...

Accord improves high LTV offering

Accord Mortgages has cut rates on its 90% and 95% LTV mortgages by up...

Shared ownership refresh by the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has revamped its range of shared ownership products. The three new...

Help to Buy keeping FTB market going

The latest First Time Buyer Tracker from Your Move and Reeds Rains has revealed...

Ever widening gap for ‘second steppers’

So-called 'second steppers' need to find an extra £58,400 to fund the move to...

NUT exclusive from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society is offering a new 95% Loan-to-Value (LTV) mortgage available exclusively...

Labour pledges to build the homes that FTBs need

The Labour Party has revealed plans to help communities build hundreds of thousands of...

Nationwide to cut Save to Buy rates

The Nationwide Building Society is reducing mortgage rates for customers with small deposits using...

Lack of affordable housing causing disenfranchisement

Research from Gocompare.com Mortgages has revealed the effect that the gap between housing supply...

Monthly lending decline for FTBs

Total gross lending in August was £18.1 billion, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)...

Average HTB2 LTV in August was 94%

Latest data from Mortgage Advice Bureau shows that the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee...

NatWest & RBS celebrate Help to Buy 2 anniversary

Since the launch of the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee Scheme in October last...
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COMMENT

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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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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,...
News

Family BS strengthens intermediary team with BDM appointment

Family Building Society has appointed Sam Byrne as business development manager for the northern...
Building Societies

Buckinghamshire cuts rates across credit repair ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reduced selected rates across its Credit Revive and Credit Restore...

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