First-time buyers

YBS unveils 90% first-time buyer deals

The Yorkshire Building Society has reintroduced 90% loan to value (LTV) products exclusively for...

Platform relaunches 90% LTV offering

From Monday 29 June, Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of the Co-operative Bank, will offer...

Help to Buy back and LTVs up to 85% at Platform

Platform is reintroducing its Help to Buy mortgage range and also making mortgages of...

FHL ups LTVs and adds new five-year deals

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential loan to value (LTV) from 75%...

Nationwide to cut maximum LTVs

The Nationwide Building Society is lowering the maximum loan to value (LTV) amount that...

Accord moves back into 90% LTV with FTB exclusives

Accord Mortgages is to offer 90% loan to value (LTV) products from 9am on...

Coventry for Intermediaries launches limited tranche of 90% LTV products

Coventry for intermediaries is introducing a limited tranche of business at 90% LTV. The provider...

The Ipswich withdraws 90% LTV products

Citing "unprecedented demand", the Ipswich Building Society is temporarily withdrawing its 90% LTV two...

Coventry for Intermediaries to launch 90% LTV deals

Coventry for intermediaries has stated that it will introduce two five-year fixed 90% LTV...

Virgin Money becomes latest lender to withdraw 90% LTV products

Virgin Money is temporarily withdrawing its 90% LTV purchase, remortgage and new build products. It said...

Kensington ups LTV to 80% and resumes HTB & buy-to-let

Kensington Mortgages has resumed 80% LTV lending across its residential Select, Core, Young Professional...

Covid causes huge slump in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has revealed that March saw the number of mortgage approvals...

Saffron: self-build completions up 144%

The Saffron Building Society has reported a 144% increase in its self-build completions compared...

IMLA: first-time buyers key to economic recovery

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is calling on the government to assess the...

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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...