Shared ownership

FTBs show widespread lack of shared ownership understanding

Only 35% of prospective first-time buyers can accurately define shared ownership, suggesting that many...

Reliance Bank joins Beneficial Network’s lender panel

Mortgage and protection network Beneficial has added Reliance Bank to its mortgage panel. Members...

West One Loans moves into Right to Buy and shared ownership

West One Loans has launched new Right to Buy and shared ownership products as...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries unveils residential deals amid wider refresh

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, part of OSB Group, has refreshed products across its residential,...

Shared ownership behind Just Mortgages’ new build enquiry boost

The new build division at national brokerage Just Mortgages has reported a strong start...

Hanley Economic BS updates shared ownership offering

Hanley Economic Building Society has revised its shared ownership product range through the introduction...

Leeds BS reduces rates on 27 mortgage products

Leeds Building Society has reduced interest rates on products across its mortgage range. Reductions of...

Penrith BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of Penrith Building Society to its lender panel. From...

Virgin Money improves loan-to-income policy

Virgin Money has made a positive change to its loan-to-income (LTI) policy. The lender has...

Skipton BS to cut 99 mortgage rates

Skipton Building Society will be reducing 99 rates across its mortgage product range effective...

Mansfield BS introduces new lifetime discount option

Mansfield Building Society has relaunched residential mortgage products linked to a Lifetime Discount follow-on...

Leeds BS unveils new year mortgage rate reductions

Leeds Building Society has made reductions on products across its mortgage range. the cuts are...

Buckinghamshire BS introduces new shared ownership offering

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a shared ownership mortgage product designed to assist applicants...

Leeds BS improves mortgage rates

Leeds Building Society has made rate reductions on selected products aimed at first-time buyers. Rate...

COMMENT

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey

Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...

Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers

Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...

Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering

Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...

NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion

NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...

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