Help to Buy

The debate around deposit-raising

2016 has certainly been an intriguing and, to some extent, disturbing year to get...

What succeeds Help to Buy 2?

If you were to ask most mortgage market practitioners, what has been the government’s...

‘Smart’ FTBs locked into HTB mortgage guarantee scheme

Connells Survey and Valuation has found that first-time buyers are making the most of the Help...

Widespread rate cuts unveiled by Barclays

Barclays has made cuts across its residential, large loan and buy-to-let product ranges.  Key changes include the following: Two-year...

Anticipating the Autumn Statement

The date has been set, and one presumes, the preparations about what it will...

New low Sharia compliant rates from Al Rayan Bank

Al Rayan Bank (UK) has announced the lowest ever rental rates on its Home Purchase...

Fall in construction output

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that in July 2016, output in...

Aldermore cuts Help to Buy rates

Aldermore is reducing rates on its Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee offering. The lender...

Virgin Money cuts BTL, H2B and residential rates

Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on selected products across its core...

Average first-time buyer age is now 37

21% of prospective buyers aged 18-34 say that, following this month’s interest rate cut,...

The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates

The Skipton Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on...

New Help to Buy deal from the Teachers

The Teachers Building Society has launched a new 1.49% discounted variable rate Help to...

Virgin Money unveils HTB London deals

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

New Help to Buy Scotland deals from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...

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What is the Protection Claims Charter – and how does it work?

The moment of truth for any insurance product is at point of claim. Insurers have been publishing claims statistics for almost two decades now, highlighting...

Affordability reforms, housing ambition and the uncomfortable PRS truth

Let’s be clear: the FCA’s recent Discussion Paper (DP25/2) isn’t necessarily about buy-to-let lending. At least, not directly. It’s framed as a review of how...

Broker proactivity can ease path back to prime

One of the lessons we’ve taken from the ever rising levels of interest in our near prime range recently is that brokers are seeing...

Self-employment: A career not a complication

There’s a persistent myth in the market that self-employed borrowers are a high-risk, hard-to-place category. But some lenders see things differently. Whether it’s a dentist...

We need to look again at two-year swaps…

Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen three notable things happen in the swaps market and interest rates in general. Firstly and obviously, rates have...

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Small business confidence falls to record low as closures loom

Confidence among small business owners has sunk to its lowest level since 2008, with...

Savills, Knight Frank and eXp UK lead estate agency digital brand rankings

Savills, Knight Frank and eXp UK have emerged as the estate agency sector’s most...

New report sparks commercial mortgage opportunity

Empty office buildings in the City of London and Canary Wharf could become late-night...

Cabinet Minister refuses to rule out wealth tax ahead of Autumn Budget

A senior cabinet minister has declined to rule out the introduction of a wealth...