First-time buyers

Help to Buy threatened by house price bubble: IMLA

Mortgage brokers and intermediary lenders both believe that inflated house prices are the...

New Coventry Intermediaries range includes 90% LTV deal

Coventry Intermediaries has launched a new range of flexible products, which includes two Flexx...

Pickles claims Help to Buy “working well”

The Help to Buy equity loan scheme has seen 10,000 reservations for new build...

FTB lending at highest level since 2007

Lending to first-time buyers has reached its largest quarterly total since 2007 with 68,200...

The Leeds moves into Help to Buy

Leeds Building Society has introduced its first set of Help to Buy products. The...

Minority expect to be homeowners when they have first child

Nearly 4.6 million Britons expect to start a family in the future but don’t...

Parents exhaust savings to help kids buy first homes

49% of parents who have or plan to contribute to their children's first home...

Dream of homeownership still strong

A Rightmove survey has found that 96% of those currently in rented accommodation still...

Halifax Intermediaries tweaks offering

Halifax Intermediaries has made changes to its product range. It has introduced two-year 80% LTV...

Joint mortgages more prevalent than single ones

Consumers are more likely to have a joint mortgage with a partner or spouse...

FTB numbers up by one-fifth

The number of first-time buyers in the first six months of the year was...

Details sketchy on ‘new’ Help to Buy

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has welcomed the progress report announced by the...

Santander moves into Help to Buy

Santander for Intermediaries is launching a range of Help to Buy Equity Loan mortgages. The...

Castle Trust removes Partnership Mortgage fees

Castle Trust is waiving all fees on its Partnership Mortgage, where the Equity Withdrawal...
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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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Technology

Mortgage Magic launches Secure Portal through Microsoft Windows Store

Mortgage Magic has made its Secure Portal available through the Microsoft Windows Store, with...
Building Societies

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
Building Societies

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
Buy-to-let

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...

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