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Help to Buy
What succeeds Help to Buy 2?
If you were to ask most mortgage market practitioners, what has been the government’s...
17 October 2016
‘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...
11 October 2016
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...
11 October 2016
Anticipating the Autumn Statement
The date has been set, and one presumes, the preparations about what it will...
19 September 2016
New low Sharia compliant rates from Al Rayan Bank
Al Rayan Bank (UK) has announced the lowest ever rental rates on its Home Purchase...
14 September 2016
Fall in construction output
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported that in July 2016, output in...
9 September 2016
Aldermore cuts Help to Buy rates
Aldermore is reducing rates on its Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee offering. The lender...
8 September 2016
Virgin Money cuts BTL, H2B and residential rates
Virgin Money has made a number of rate reductions on selected products across its core...
2 September 2016
Average first-time buyer age is now 37
21% of prospective buyers aged 18-34 say that, following this month’s interest rate cut,...
16 August 2016
The Skipton cuts Help to Buy rates
The Skipton Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on...
28 July 2016
New Help to Buy deal from the Teachers
The Teachers Building Society has launched a new 1.49% discounted variable rate Help to...
10 June 2016
Virgin Money unveils HTB London deals
Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...
27 May 2016
New Help to Buy Scotland deals from Virgin Money
Virgin Money has launched a new range of Help to Buy Equity Loan products...
25 May 2016
Halifax unveils 1% cashback offer
The Halifax has launched a 1% cashback offer for first time buyers and home...
25 April 2016
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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...
6 February 2026
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...
5 February 2026
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...
4 February 2026
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...
4 February 2026
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...
3 February 2026
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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates
Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...
6 February 2026
Technology
Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly
Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...
6 February 2026
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...
6 February 2026
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FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG
The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...
6 February 2026
PROFILES
Louisa Sedgwick on Paragon and the future of buy-to-let
Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market
Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape