Help to Buy

L&G calls for industry collaboration over Help to Buy end

Legal & General Mortgage Club is calling on the mortgage industry to work together...

Bluestone opens up Right to Buy availability

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a rate reduction across its product range and has brought...

Bluestone cuts Help to Buy rates

Bluestone Mortgages has reduced rates across its Help to Buy range to support customers...

Pepper adds impaired credit remortgage products to Help to Buy range

Pepper Money has expanded its Help to Buy range with the introduction of Help...

Affinity Mortgages joins Proportunity broker panel

Affinity Mortgages has been added to the panel of brokers at Proportunity, the shared...

Will ‘Levelling Up’ help first-time buyers?

The government’s Levelling Up White Paper focused heavily on the housing market, specifically looking...

Virgin Money announces mortgage rate rises

Virgin Money has raised a number of mortgage rates. Exclusives 80% LTV two-year fixed rate...

Virgin Money to increase selected fixed rates

Virgin Money is making changes to a selection of fixed rate mortgages. The changes come...

MAB New Homes partners with Generation Home

Mortgage Advice Bureau New Homes has teamed up with Generation Home in an attempt...

Proportunity hires its first national account manager

Matt Surridge has joined Proportunity as national account manager. Surridge (pictured, left) joins Proportunity from fintech...

Pepper Money moves into Help to Buy

Pepper Money has introduced a range of Help to Buy products, forming part of...

Deposit Unlock will help low deposit borrowers buy a new build home

A new private sector initiative to help people buy a new build home with...

Bluestone widens Help to Buy availability

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the reopening of its Help to Buy range to the...

Barclays cuts mortgages by up to 38bps

Barclays Mortgages is making rate reductions across its residential and buy-to-let product ranges –...

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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...

How product transfers can help landlords and brokers in a challenging market

In an ever-changing buy-to-let market, the task of managing a property portfolio becomes increasingly complex – whether it’s navigating higher operational costs, changing market...

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A third of landlords warn of disinvestment if rent caps are introduced

A substantial proportion of landlords say they would halt investment in their properties if...

West One unveils 97.5% LTV products

Specialist lender West One Loans has launched a sweeping set of changes across its...

Black & White Bridging bolsters team to support growth

Black & White Bridging has announced the appointment of two new recruits as it...

UK housing market shows signs of stability against backdrop of lingering uncertainty

The UK housing market is showing early signs of stabilisation, according to the latest...