First-time buyers

Leeds BS offers new three-year shared ownership mortgages

Leeds Building Society has revamped its range of shared ownership mortgages, adding two new...

Halifax reports return of house price falls

Halifax has reported that average house price fell by 0.3% in April, following the...

We need to address the focus on Bank Base Rate

March as a month certainly gave the mortgage market a lot to digest and...

Housing policy formulation should outlive electoral cycles

The housing market is riddled with serious issues around affordability and quality, which can...

Affordability and remortgaging were top Q1 queries for Primis

Primis Mortgage Network has revealed that the network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

New investment for Tembo

Digital mortgage platform Tembo has secured £5 million of investment. Tembo has welcomed two new...

Pepper Money unveils Right To Buy range

Pepper Money has bolstered its affordable home ownership proposition with the launch of specialist...

Saffron BS reintroduces FTB two-year fixes

Saffron Building Society has announced a number of product relaunches and refreshes across its...

L&G: mortgage activity levels fuelled by financial gifting

Legal & General has revealed that first-time buyers are still pursuing their home ownership...

Gen H partners with Dynamo for Intermediaries

Mortgage lender Gen H has expanded its broker panel with the addition of Dynamo...

Tembo partners with Barratt London to help first-time buyers

Tembo is partnering with Barratt London, part of Barratt Developments, to help get more...

Leeds BS ups maximum loan sizes

Leeds Building Society has increased maximum loan sizes for higher LTV (loan to value)...

West One launches new ‘Platinum’ residential range

West One Loans has launched a new range of residential mortgages with rates up...

Support for low deposit schemes vital after Help to Buy

National brokerage Just Mortgages has said that the sector must continue to get behind...

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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...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

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Cornerstone adds Ceta to GI panel

Ceta Insurance has been appointed to the Cornerstone Finance Group’s general insurance panel. The addition...

UTB Mortgages celebrates decade of growth and transformation

United Trust Bank’s mortgage division is marking its tenth anniversary, having grown from a...

Simplify signs conveyancing deal with TPFG

Simplify and The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) have agreed to partner to deliver conveyancing...

Call to merge CeRER with CeMAP

Key, the UK’s largest equity release adviser, has urged the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...