First-time buyers

Many first-time buyers aim to clear their mortgage by 40, TSB finds

More than one in six first-time buyers hope to be mortgage free by the...

New-build sales slump 62% as buyers await price stability

Sales of new-build homes have fallen sharply this year despite improved mortgage availability and...

Norton Home Loans widens lending access for non-standard borrowers

Norton Home Loans has introduced a package of criteria changes and rate reductions designed...

Retail spending slows as shoppers brace for Budget pressures

Retail spending growth slowed in September as households reined in discretionary purchases ahead of...

Skipton targets first-time buyers with new-build mortgage support

Skipton Building Society has outlined a series of measures designed to help brokers and...

Voters favour green belt protection over stamp duty cuts

Public confidence in the Government’s handling of the housing crisis has fallen sharply, with...

What the 2025 Party Conferences told us about property

Key housing and property policy developments from all four major UK political party conferences...

New-build homes attracting wider range of buyers, says Alexander Hall

New research from mortgage adviser Alexander Hall suggests that new-build homes are no longer...

Mortgage rates edge higher after eight-month decline

Average fixed mortgage rates have risen for the first time in eight months, according...

Barclays broadens income criteria to boost mortgage affordability

Barclays has announced a major overhaul of its mortgage affordability criteria, increasing the proportion...

Gen H names new sales and distribution director

Gen H has appointed Sara Palmer as its new sales and distribution director. Reporting to...

Stamp duty reform faces early pushback

Kemi Badenoch’s pledge to abolish stamp duty on home sales, which she described last...

Housebuilders launch new equity loan scheme to boost homeownership

A group of UK housebuilders have joined forces with lenders and asset managers to...

BREAKING NEWS: A triple Christmas bonus for brokers

In Kemi ‘Badenough’s’ closing speech at the Conservative Conference in Manchester this week she...
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COMMENT

Opinions & blogs

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Technology

Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...
Appointments

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...
Homebuying

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...
Technology

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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