First-time buyers

April rise in capital-raising mortgage searches

Legal & General has reported that data from its SmartrFit tool shows that searches...

Gen H cuts rates by up to 65bps

Gen H has announced rate reductions for all of its products by up to...

Platform relaunches 95% LTV mortgages

Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of the Co-operative Bank, has announced the relaunch of...

Hanley Economic BS unveils fee-free 95% LTV five-year fix

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free 95% LTV five-year fixed rate into...

Leeds BS offers new three-year shared ownership mortgages

Leeds Building Society has revamped its range of shared ownership mortgages, adding two new...

Halifax reports return of house price falls

Halifax has reported that average house price fell by 0.3% in April, following the...

We need to address the focus on Bank Base Rate

March as a month certainly gave the mortgage market a lot to digest and...

Housing policy formulation should outlive electoral cycles

The housing market is riddled with serious issues around affordability and quality, which can...

Affordability and remortgaging were top Q1 queries for Primis

Primis Mortgage Network has revealed that the network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

New investment for Tembo

Digital mortgage platform Tembo has secured £5 million of investment. Tembo has welcomed two new...

Pepper Money unveils Right To Buy range

Pepper Money has bolstered its affordable home ownership proposition with the launch of specialist...

Saffron BS reintroduces FTB two-year fixes

Saffron Building Society has announced a number of product relaunches and refreshes across its...

L&G: mortgage activity levels fuelled by financial gifting

Legal & General has revealed that first-time buyers are still pursuing their home ownership...

Gen H partners with Dynamo for Intermediaries

Mortgage lender Gen H has expanded its broker panel with the addition of Dynamo...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost?...

MIMHC makes final call as charity lunch nears capacity

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has made a final call for industry...

Virgin Money to move eligible product transfers to Nationwide from October

Virgin Money is changing its residential product transfer process, with some customers whose deals...

Skipton cuts fixed rates and widens home mover range

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average...

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