First-time buyers

Metro Bank launches five-year 95% LTV deal

Metro Bank has unveiled a new five-year fixed rate 95% LTV residential mortgage product. The...

Clydesdale Bank introduces FTB exclusive at 90% LTV

Clydesdale Bank has launched a new first-time buyer Intermediary exclusive. The two-year fixed rate is...

The Leeds adds 95% LTV two-year fixes to range

The Leeds Building Society has introduced a pair of new short-term high LTV mortgages...

“If you build it, they will come”

I’ll freely admit that it’s not particularly cutting-edge or surfing the zeitgeist wave, to...

Barclays outlines new 95% LTV Mortgage Guarantee Scheme deals

Barclays Mortgages' new 95% LTV Mortgage Guarantee Scheme products will be available for applications from...

Accord opens up 95% LTV mortgage eligibility

Accord Mortgages is widening its 95% loan to value mortgage offering to all purchasers. The...

Strong demand for Skipton’s 95% offering

The Skipton Building Society has reported a huge interest in its 95% LTV mortgage. The...

Atom Bank reoffers 95% LTV mortgages

Atom Bank has relaunched its 95% LTV mortgages with immediate effect. Atom is re-introducing the...

The Leeds returns to 95% LTV lending

The Leeds Building Society has introduced two new 95% loan to value (LTV) mortgage...

The Mansfield unveils new high LTV deals

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new house purchase mortgage to 90% LTV,...

95% LTV mortgage affordability still an issue

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has reported that 95% LTV mortgage searches have increased by...

The Buckinghamshire unveils 95% LTV mortgage range

The Buckinghamshire Building Society is launching a range of 95% loan to value (LTV)...

The Leeds offers cashback fee-free deals in Scotland

The Leeds Building Society has introduces a new range of shared equity mortgages to...

Rise in number of properties selling for over the asking price

NAEA Propertymark has reported that 11% of properties sold for more than the original asking...

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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