First-time buyers

Brits would emigrate to buy their own home

New research from Santander Mortgages reveals that 1.1 million (7%) Brits would consider emigrating...

The Mansfield offers new 90% and 95% LTV deals

The Mansfield Building Society has added two new higher LTV deals to its mortgage...

Skipton unveils FTB seven-day sale

Skipton Intermediaries has pledged to get 250 first time buyers closer to getting their...

New limited edition deals from Barclays

Barclays is launching 'limited edition' mortgage products. For example, the bank's 1.94% 60% LTV two-year...

Slight rise in FTB numbers

The number of buyers aged between 18 to 30 remains at an all-time low...

FTB completions continue to rise

The number of first-time buyer house completions in the UK rose 7% year-on-year in...

Nationwide back into Help to Buy market

Nationwide Building Society is resuming access for home movers looking to participate in the...

Birthday for the Leeds’ Welcome Mortgage

The Leeds Building Society has celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of its...

Remortgaging continues to be muted

House purchase lending to home-buyers increased month-on-month in July totalling 67,700 loans, up 10%...

The Newcastle unveils pair of FTB fixes

Two new low fee fixed rate mortgage products aimed at first time buyers have...

BoE: increase in proportion of FTB lending

The proportion of lending for house purchase in Q2 2014 was 70.1%, about 3.7...

Latest Halifax price data “good news for buyers”

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months from June to August...

Shareamortgage.com introduces affordability calculator

The cost of living for the average Briton is £13,281 before any money can...

CML unveils pre-election ‘manifesto’

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has published a housing market manifesto aimed at...
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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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