First-time buyers

Pepper Money completes ‘adverse’ FTB mortgage in 16 days

epper Money has completed a purchase mortgage for first-time buyers with missed credit payments...

Estate agents see record October demand

In October, the average number of prospective buyers registered per estate agent branch reached...

Platform to offer £1k cashback on higher LTVs

Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of The Co-operative Bank, is launching products which will...

Nationwide to expand 90% LTV beyond first-time buyers

From the second week of December, the Nationwide Building Society will be making 90%...

TSB offers cashback product to first-time buyers

TSB has launched a new five-year product in its first-time buyer mortgage range. It is...

90% deals from YBS

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched a new range of mortgages for borrowers with...

First-time buyer affordability gap stands at 11%

The 'affordability gap' for first-time buyers fell to a record low of 11% last...

Accord back to offering 90% LTV mortgages more consistently

Tomorrow (18 November) Accord Mortgages will reintroduce a selection of 90% LTV products into...

Platform resumes 90% LTV lending

Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of the Co-operative Bank, is reintroducing five year fixed...

Affordability analysis could mean a bigger home

The latest MBT Affordability Index from Mortgage Broker Tools has found that the average...

MCI expands lender panel with mutual appointment

MCI mortgage club has added the Buckinghamshire Building Society to its panel. The club said...

Accord extends 90% LTV broker-exclusive availability period

Accord Mortgages is extending its 90% LTV home purchase range, available for first-time buyers...

Accord to offer 90% homemover deals for three days

Accord Mortgages id to offer another limited release of 90% LTV products, this time...

Hep to Buy transition guide published

Accord Mortgages is offering a free to access guide to help brokers and their...

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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...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...