First-time buyers

First-time buyer completions at three-year high

First-time buyers saw their completion rate for mortgage offers via intermediaries reach a three-year...

The Ipswich revamps shared ownership offering

The Ipswich Building Society has shaken up its shared ownership mortgage range. It has made...

46 FTBs per week helped by equity release: Canada Life

Family members taking out equity release helped 46 first-time buyers a week onto the...

TMA offers Principality exclusives

TMA Club has launched two new exclusive products with the Principality Building Society. Available immediately...

H&R offers £1k cashback on two new 95% mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has unveiled two new fee-free cashback mortgages at...

Gap between buying and renting is narrowing

The latest Halifax Buying vs. Renting Review has found that the gap between the...

Newcastle Intermediaries revamps 95% LTV offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut rates rates on its 95% LTV products of up to...

Fall in property demand in January

January saw the number of house hunters registered per estate agent branch fall from...

The Saffron introduces ‘enhanced affordability’ calculator

The Saffron Building Society has unveiled a new affordability calculator designed to help brokers...

We need to ease the reliance upon the Bank of Mum and Dad

When you look at the first-time buyer market in the UK at present, you...

Accord Mortgages’ revamp includes new offset deals

Accord Mortgages has revamped its mortgage range with changes that will help both borrowers...

The Leeds cuts first-time buyer rates

The Leeds Building Society is making a range of rate reductions on high loan...

The Mortgage Lender moves into Help to Buy market

The Mortgage Lender has introduced its first range of Help to Buy mortgages for...

12-year high for first-time buyer numbers

UK Finance has revealed that there were 370,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

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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...

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...

Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Right of Light risks: a looming shadow over construction projects

Gone are the days when a Right of Light infringement could be swiftly dealt with by simply taking out an indemnity insurance policy. Specialists used...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

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Aldermore unveils new limited edition five-year BTL products

Aldermore has launched a pair of limited edition five-year buy-to-let mortgages for landlords, with...

AMI calls on advisers to take part in protection survey

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has launched its annual survey of mortgage and...

Broker confidence holds steady as mortgage market cools

Confidence among mortgage brokers held firm in the second quarter of the year despite...

The Suffolk cuts expat mortgage rates amid rising demand

Suffolk Building Society has cut rates across its expat mortgage range, with reductions of...