First-time buyers

Accord presents its 30,000th ‘welcome box’

Accord Mortgages has presented its 30,000th welcome box - the complimentary hamper sent on...

Brexit “has taken one million homes off the market”

33% of homeowners, who’ve moved house since 2016, say their decision was due to...

Accord improves high LTV proposition

Accord Mortgages has introduced a new 10-year fixed rate mortgage. Homebuyers with a 25% deposit...

February rise in mortgage approvals

There were 66,465 mortgages approved during February 2019 (seasonally adjusted), according to e.surv. Approvals were...

Four new Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor mortgages from Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has introduced four exclusive mortgages for residential Joint...

Why Help to Buy remains invaluable

The Help to Buy scheme continues to grab the headlines, mainly for the right...

TSB ups loan-to-income cap

TSB is to increase its maximum loan-to-income multiple cap from 4.5 to 4.75 for...

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...

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...

Latest news

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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