First-time buyers

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...

Rise in number of loans to small deposit borrowers

There were 66,350 mortgages approved in January 2019, according to seasonally adjusted figures from E.surv. The...

Broker market share will increase in 2019: IMLA

IMLA has predicted that total gross mortgage lending, loans for house purchase and remortgaging...

First-time buyers stop ‘chasing the market’

Gatehouse Bank has reported that there has been a collapse in the appetite of first-time...

Nationwide reports sharp rise in net mortgage lending

In its latest interim statement, the Nationwide Building Society has reported a rise in...

Oxford is the UK’s least affordable city

Lloyds Bank has found that city house prices in the UK have outpaced earnings...

Barclays’ Green Home Mortgage adds eight house-builders

Barclays Mortgages has made changes to a number of products within its 95% LTV (including...

No FTB deposit required with new Lloyds mortgage

The new Lloyds Bank Lend a Hand mortgage removes the need for a deposit...
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COMMENT

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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News

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

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

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

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

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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