Help to Buy

Precise Mortgages cuts buy-to-let rates

Precise Mortgages is cutting rates by up to 0.40 percentage points across its range...

Government extends Help to Buy deadline

The government has extended the deadline for homes to have been finished in order...

First-time buyers still keen on home ownership despite Covid crisis

93% of first-time buyers are still thinking about buying a property in 2020, with...

Help to Buy back and LTVs up to 85% at Platform

Platform is reintroducing its Help to Buy mortgage range and also making mortgages of...

Barclays unveils new Help to Buy offering amid widespread changes

Barclays is making changes to a number of its mortgages. The changes are across its...

Kensington ups LTV to 80% and resumes HTB & buy-to-let

Kensington Mortgages has resumed 80% LTV lending across its residential Select, Core, Young Professional...

Barclays reintroduces large loans and 75% BTL

Barclays Mortgages has made changes across its residential, buy-to-let and reward ranges. The bank is reducing...

Accord increases Help to buy cashback

Accord Residential has cut rates on selected house purchase and remortgage products as well...

Vida Homeloans cuts rates by up to 65bps

Vida Homeloans has made a number of spring rate cuts. The reductions apply to the...

IMLA outlines its housing priorities for Budget

IMLA wants the government to apply a ‘big thinking’ approach to housing in its...

Kensington revises residential and BTL offerings

Kensington Mortgages has made changes to its residential and buy-to-let propositions. For Kensington’s residential Help to...

Kensington cuts majority of residential mortgage rates

Kensington Mortgages has made rate reductions across most of its residential mortgage range. Its Select,...

The Mortgage Lender cuts complex rates

The Mortgage Lender is reducing selected residential products and introducing a new RL0 category with...

New Metro Bank product to help Armed Forces

Metro Bank has added a new mortgage product to its range with the Armed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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