Help to Buy

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...

Precise Mortgages offers capital raising for Help to Buy

Precise Mortgages has revised its Help to Buy proposition and is now offering homeowners...

New Help to Buy deals from Vida Homeloans

Vida Homeloans has refreshed its Help to Buy products. These updates follow the launch of...

Strong first year in new build and Help to Buy for Accord

Since launching its new build and Help to Buy proposition in September 2018, Accord...

New Precise Help to Buy exclusive for PMS and Sesame advisers

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have unveiled a new Help to Buy exclusive...

Accord cuts Help to Buy rates

Accord Mortgages has reduced rates on its Help to Buy product range. The changes include...

Assessing Help to Buy’s effectiveness

Given that we are (seemingly) very close to a General Election – perhaps even...

Vida unveils specialist education campaign

Vida Homeloans has introduced an education campaign aimed at showcasing typical specialist customers, ranging...

Call for increased LTVs ahead of Help to Buy removal

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network want lenders to increase Loan to Values (LTVs)...

Barclays unveils new Great Escape three-year deals

Barclays has made a number of positive changes across its Residential and Reward ranges. It...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

Simplybiz Mortgages and FIBA add six lenders to specialist panel

Simplybiz Mortgages and the Financial Intermediary & Broker Association have expanded their Specialist Property...

First-time buyer affordability remains strained despite narrowing house price gap

Only 12.1% of potential first-time buyers can afford the average starter home in their...

Royal London targets GP report delays with digital service

Royal London is expanding its use of digital medical evidence in an effort to...

Equifinance names Jackie Burchill as lending operations director

Equifinance has appointed Jackie Burchill as director of lending operations as the second charge...

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