Help to Buy

Barclays changes Green Home Mortgage rates

Barclays has made changes to its residential, buy-to-let and Reward range products. It has also...

NatWest introduces mortgage rate hikes

NatWest has made changes to its core and semi-exclusive ranges of residential and buy-to-let...

Help to Buy extended in Scotland

The Help to Buy (Scotland) scheme will be extended beyond 2019.  From April 2019, a...

Platform unveils Help to Buy mortgage range

Platform is to offer a range of Help to Buy mortgages to broker partners from Monday,...

IMLA predicts 2018-19 growth in mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending in 2018 has been predicted to rise for the eighth year...

Newcastle Intermediaries adds Help to Buy and BTL to self-employed offering

Newcastle intermediaries has extended its self employed product range to include both Help to...

Help to Buy ‘winners’ revealed

New analysis from independent mortgage broker Private Finance reveals the areas of the country...

Hinckley & Rugby Help to Buy exclusive for MAB

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has unveiled an exclusive product with Mortgage Advice...

Hanley Economic BS unveils Help to Buy remortgage deal

The Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a two-year discounted remortgage product for Help...

Newcastle Intermediaries joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Newcastle Intermediaries to its mortgage lender panel. Member firms of the...

Aldermore targets first-time buyers with product changes

Aldermore has cut rates on its high loan to value (LTV) range by up...

New deals from the Skipton BS

The Skipton Building Society has revised rates across a number of mortgage products with...

New Help to Buy: ISA from the West Brom

The West Brom Building Society has added a Help to Buy: ISA to its range...

The Skipton offers range to Help to Buy leavers

The Skipton Building Society is launching a new range of  what it has dubbed...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

BetterHome Group UK appoints Anthony Glasgow as chief operating officer

BetterHome Group UK has appointed former Connells Group executive Anthony Glasgow as chief operating...

Sub-5% mortgage fixes virtually wiped out as rates surge

The number of sub-5% fixed mortgage deals has collapsed by 99% since the beginning...

The Leeds highlights £165k mortgage borrowing potential for buyers earning £30k

Leeds Building Society is urging brokers to consider the mortgage options available to lower-paid...

Disabled mortgage applicants face inconsistent treatment of benefit income

Disabled consumers continue to face uneven treatment across financial services, with new research highlighting...

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