First-time buyers

Skipton BS improves new build lending policy

Skipton Building Society has made changes to its lending policy for new build flats...

Leeds BS improves mortgage rates

Leeds Building Society has made rate reductions on selected products aimed at first-time buyers. Rate...

Purchase mortgage searches remain flat

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for November 2023. It reported that purchase mortgage searches...

Under-50s increasingly receiving financial support via released equity

New research from Hodge has found that almost two-thirds of people who are receiving...

Finova adds Earl Shilton BS to lender panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced a new partnership with Earl Shilton Building...

New build solutions in a challenging market

New build properties are an attractive proposition for many borrowers, whether they are a...

Green home improvement products key for younger buyers

Coventry for intermediaries has found that there is a defined generational difference in attitude...

BoMaD consider equity release as means for children to buy a home

Parents are turning to lifetime mortgages to help their children buy a home, as...

Twenty7tec adds Cumberland BS to SOURCE

Twenty7tec has announced the addition of the Cumberland Building Society to its SOURCE module. The...

Helping FTBs overcome the affordability hurdle in testing times

The challenges faced by first-time buyers (FTBs) have been well-documented over the years. Issues...

Suffolk Building Society re-enters shared ownership market

Suffolk Building Society has moved back into the shared ownership market, with a new...

Gen H launches with Experian Score Boost

Gen H will include Experian’s Score Boost data in its credit decisioning in a...

Gen H reduces rates by up to 50 bps

Gen H has launched another round of rate cuts with new sub-5% LTV products. The...

FTBs turning to friends and family rather than brokers for advice

First-time buyers aged 18 to 34, are primarily relying on advice from family and...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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