First-time buyers

Promise Money partners with Ahauz

Ahauz, which provides an equity loan to first-time buyers, has announced a partnership with...

The Nottingham improves first-time buyer no-fee deal

The Nottingham has announced rate reductions to its no-fee five-year fixed 95% LTV mortgage...

Saffron revamps offering and urges: ‘let’s get them home’

The Saffron Building Society has launched a new campaign - ‘Let’s get them home’...

Leeds BS gives green support to 95% mortgages

Leeds Building Society is allowing homebuyers to offset the carbon footprint of their property...

Proportunity hires its first national account manager

Matt Surridge has joined Proportunity as national account manager. Surridge (pictured, left) joins Proportunity from fintech...

Newcastle BS completes first Deposit Unlock deals

Newcastle Building Society has announced the first completions in the UK under the industry-led...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves affordability

Newcastle Intermediaries has updated its lending criteria to improve affordability for customers looking to...

Push positive first-time buyer messages out there

Prospective first-time buyers might look at the current housing market situation and wonder if...

Pepper Money moves into Help to Buy

Pepper Money has introduced a range of Help to Buy products, forming part of...

Finova adds Metro Bank to panel

Metro Bank has joined the lending panel of finova Payment & Mortgage Services, previously...

New deals and rate cuts from the Mansfield

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates on seven existing mortgage products and added two...

Paradigm boosts lender panel with Clydesdale appointment

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Clydesdale Bank to its lender panel. From today, member firms...

Generation Home partners with Twenty7Tec

A new mortgage lender, Generation Home, has partnered with Twenty7Tec, to expand the distribution...

Skipton improves maximum LTVs

Skipton Building Society is introducing policy changes designed to help low deposit mortgage customers...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

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...

Latest news

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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