First-time buyers

YBS targets first time buyers with new deals

Yorkshire Building Society is offering first time buyers up to £1,000 cashback. The Yorkshire is...

Extent of first-time buyer finance calculated

Parents have provided over 228,000 first time buyers with more than £1.31 billion in...

October boost in first-time buyer activity

The number of loans advanced to first-time buyers in October rose to levels similar...

The Leeds to utilise FLS to boost new lending

The Leeds Building Society has stated its intention to use the Funding for Lending...

Nationwide cuts fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting its fixed and tracker mortgage rates across all...

Innovation in shared equity

Shared equity is starting to play a really useful part of getting people on...

Nationwide doubles FTB lending

Nationwide Building Society has doubled its lending to first time buyers in the first...

The Chelsea offers offset facility to FTBs

Chelsea Building Society has launched a new first time buyer mortgage. The new mortgage range...

Second time buyer savings gap calculated

First time buyers who bought a property in 2007 face a gap of £62,281...

FTB costs for Londoners established

The average first time buyer deposit in Camden, at £145,148, is over five times...

Younger generation shows concern over homebuying commitment

28% of 25-34 year olds in the UK believe that buying a house with...

Precise revamps product offering

Precise Mortgages has made changes to its mortgage range. All mainstream products will now...

First-time buyers turning to affordable housing schemes

46% of first-time buyers are considering affordable housing schemes to help them onto the...

Funding for Lending behind lending growth

House purchase lending in October grew by 10% compared to September as the Funding...
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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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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...
valuations

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...
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HSBC UK cuts mortgage rates by up to 11bps

HSBC UK has reduced rates across its mortgage range, with cuts of up to...
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Ampla Finance unveils Untangled rebrand as it broadens specialist lending ambitions

Specialist lender Ampla Finance has launched a new brand identity, Untangled, as it looks...

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