First-time buyers

The Mansfield backs Scotland First Home Fund initiative

The Mansfield Building Society has made its standard residential and specialist Versatility mortgage range...

H&R cuts rates for ‘first-time buyer friendly’ mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reduced the interest rates on three mortgages...

Burnley is most affordable area for first-time buyers

Halifax has revealed that the cost challenge facing first-time buyers increased significantly over the...

December spike in mortgage approvals

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv found that there were 66,253 residential mortgages approved...

Upturn in product choice for 95% LTV borrowers

AmTrust’s latest Mortgage Loan to Value (LTV) Tracker has reported that the number of...

Advisers: look at the whole 2020 landscape

The beginning of every new year has to start with a review of the...

H&R BS cuts high LTV fee-free cashback mortgage rate

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reduced the interest rate on its fee-free...

The Newcastle unveils exclusive LISA mortgage range

The Newcastle Building Society has unveiled a new mortgage range exclusively for its cash...

October rise in first-time buyer completions

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,260 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

What reforms will actually make a difference?

With the number of conflicting messages propagated about the UK’s mortgage and housing markets,...

New first-time buyer deals from Accord

Accord Mortgages has launched a range of high LTV products with the aim of...

Quarterly rise in first-time buyers in London

UK Finance has reported that there were 11,510 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Accord cuts 90% and 95% LTV rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting rates by up to 10bps on selected 90% and 95%...

“Disappointing” September completions data published

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,100 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in September...

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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...