Help to Buy

Gross advances up 13% year-on-year

The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the latest Mortgage...

CML urges caution over LTV and DTI caps

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has responded to the Treasury's consultation on giving...

Government reveals Help to Buy stats

Figures released by the government today showed that over 66,000 households have been helped...

HTB1 activity still focused at lower end of property ladder

People buying homes using the Help to Buy equity loan scheme are only using...

FTB completions fall due to dipping demand

October saw the number of first-time buyer house completions stall, according to the latest...

87 purchase & remo deals to be cut by NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is introducing rate reductions to the majority of its core intermediary range...

E.surv: purchase mortgage market is self-correcting

House purchase approval figures improved last month after three consecutive months of slowdown as...

Typical HTB2 deposit 87% lower than purchase market average

Those homebuyers using the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme (HTB2) had average...

Help to Buy keeping FTB market going

The latest First Time Buyer Tracker from Your Move and Reeds Rains has revealed...

Nationwide to cut Save to Buy rates

The Nationwide Building Society is reducing mortgage rates for customers with small deposits using...

New sourcing system unveiled

Mortgage27 has released MortgageSource, a cloud based mortgage sourcing system for intermediaries. The system considers...

Average HTB2 LTV in August was 94%

Latest data from Mortgage Advice Bureau shows that the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee...

NatWest & RBS celebrate Help to Buy 2 anniversary

Since the launch of the Help to Buy: Mortgage Guarantee Scheme in October last...

BoE: Help to Buy working as intended

The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee has recommended that no changes are needed...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Latest news

Trackers

Family Building Society launches BoE tracker mortgages

Family Building Society has launched a new range of Bank of England tracker mortgages...
Repricing

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works has reduced buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points...
Repricing

Nationwide cuts mortgage rates for third time this month

Nationwide Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points across...
networks

TRM Network promotes Amy Wilson to new propositions role

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has promoted Amy Wilson to the newly created...

PROFILES