First-time buyers

Mansfield BS launches affordability-friendly 95% LTV deal

Mansfield Building Society has unveiled a new five-year fixed rate mortgage, available up to...

StrideUp reduces rates and improves criteria

StrideUp has cut its rates on both two and five-year fixed rates by 80bps...

Selina Finance joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added specialist homeowner loan and Home Equity Line...

Reliance Bank introduces new key worker offering

Reliance Bank is launching a new Key Worker Mortgage range to both the intermediary...

Saffron for Intermediaries reduces raft of mortgage rates

Saffron for Intermediaries has announced improvements to its product range including its Self-Employed, Contractor,...

Coventry for intermediaries expands 95% LTV range

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential rates by up to 36bps, with fixed...

Vida unveils 90% LTV seven-year fix

Vida is expanding its residential product range with a new seven-year fixed rate at...

Gen H further reduces mortgage rates

Gen H has made a second round of rate reductions four working days after...

FTB mortgage lending set to reach £71bn by 2025

The value of the first-time buyer economy, comprised of lending and spending, is set...

Skipton BS cuts over 100 mortgage rates

Skipton Building Society will be lowering over 100 mortgage rates across its product range. From...

It really is harder than ever for first-time buyers

When I hear people of a different generation compare their home-owning journey to that...

First-time buyers leading market activity

Stabilising interest rates are fuelling activity in the mortgage market despite longstanding affordability concerns,...

Reliance Bank offers key worker mortgage cashback incentive

Reliance Bank has launched a new key worker mortgage range to both the intermediary...

Gen H adds Openwork Partnership to panel

Gen H has partnered with the Openwork Partnership. The addition of The Openwork Partnership brings...

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Accountants, brokers and the clash of expectations

There’s an old accountant’s joke about financial advisers: the difference between us is that advisers want to look richer than their clients, while accountants...

Rachel Geddes: Redefining what’s possible for brokers and borrowers

When Rachel Geddes picked up the phone after a job interview to ask her mum what a mortgage was, she didn’t realise she was...

The Treasury is casting more floaters than a sewage farm

The problem with having a thoroughly inexperienced Chancellor and a properly ‘woodenheaded’ Prime Minister, is that they are learning the job ‘on the hoof’...

HMOs: market realities, future prospects, and the broker opportunity

The HMO sector remains one of the most dynamic parts of the private rented market, with recent data showing it’s both a significant asset...

Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

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Clydesdale Bank unveils new large loan mortgage products

Clydesdale Bank is introducing a fresh set of large loan mortgage products while withdrawing...

Rayner stands down after stamp duty inquiry

Angela Rayner has resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary after Sir Laurie...

The Newcastle launches 98% mortgage to support first-time buyers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has unveiled a new mortgage product designed to help first-time buyers...

New Chetwood Bank hire to spearhead move into bridging

Chetwood Bank has appointed Richard Lawton as director of bridging as it prepares to...