Help to Buy

Vida pulls selection of products

Vida has made temporary changes to its product range in order to deal with...

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...

COMMENT

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...

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...

AI for brokers: the three lines you should never cross

Most AI advice aimed at advisers is either breathless hype or vague caution. Here is something you can actually act on: a practical way...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect and will shortly be choosing the colour scheme of No...

Buy-to-let: reality versus a much-peddled narrative

Every few months, it seems, another report emerges suggesting buy-to-let no longer stacks up as an investment proposition. The headlines are often dramatic, the...

Latest news

Vision Money renews Stonebridge membership in long-term agreement

Vision Money has extended its relationship with Stonebridge after signing a new long-term agreement...

Gen H and Just Mortgages tool to help shared ownership borrowers move to full ownership

Just Mortgages and Gen H have introduced a new calculator designed to help shared...

Advice boosts women’s confidence in long-term financial planning

Women are more likely to manage household finances than longer-term wealth decisions, although financial...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated...

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