First-time buyers

The Leeds cuts 95% LTV rate

The Leeds Building Society has made a 0.40 percentage point rate reduction on its...

Homeowners can be 18% better off per month than renters

Renters are paying up to 18% more each month than those who own their...

We need to look beyond Stamp Duty changes

There’s a Radiohead song called ‘2 + 2 = 5’ which, if I’m not...

Government unveils First Homes initiative for first-time buyers

The government has announced plans which it claims will cut the cost of some...

The Hinckley & Rugby to split mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society will now allow mortgages to be split, in...

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...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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