First-time buyers

New scheme for FTBs in Leeds

Leeds City Council has joined forces with Leeds Building Society to help first-time-buyers in...

New build option for FTBs from the Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is offering first time buyers a mortgage for...

Aldermore to participate in NewBuy

Aldermore has become the first challenger bank to join the government’s NewBuy scheme. NewBuy is...

University key route to home ownership

27% of those intending to buy in the next 12 months will be doing...

Castle Trust reveals launch details

Castle Trust will open for business on 1 October. It will then offer HouSAs...

Home affordability at best for 15 years

Mortgage payments for a new borrower are at their lowest as a proportion of...

UK’s most affordable housing is north of the border

Mortgage payments for a new borrower in Scotland are at their lowest as a...

Fall in higher LTV availability

There has been a significant drop in the number of mortgages available for first...

The Leeds helps FTBs with new shared ownership offering

Leeds Building Society has unveiled a new shared ownership mortgage product aimed at helping...

First-time buyer activity “showing signs of resilience”

First-time buyer activity assisted in propping up lending for house purchase in June, according...

95% mortgages for Darlington scheme buyers

Darlington Building Society and Tees Valley Housing have joined forces to provide a 95%...

New first-time buyer deal from NatWest

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has unveiled a new first-time buyer purchase mortgage in its current...

Post Office rolls out expansion strategy

The Post Office is today introducing the first phase of introducing trained branch 'mortgage...

Fees divide between banks and mutuals

Analysis by MoneySupermarket has found there is a big difference between the fees attached...
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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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Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...
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Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...
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Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...
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NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

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