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Despite ongoing coronavirus woes, buyers can look to benefit from record low rates and the mortgage market remains open for business. That...
10 April 2020
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Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on three mortgages particularly attractive to first-time buyers. The fee-free mortgages are...
30 January 2020
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Both the volume and value of flexible payments from pensions has hit a new high, according to Moneyfacts. Data from the money...
29 August 2019
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Dudley BS has been working for over 160 years in providing mortgages and saving accounts to customers across a local and...
05 July 2019
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First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market in October, according to fresh research from e.surv. Its latest...
16 November 2018
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First-time buyers and others with small deposits took a greater share of the market last month than in August, according to...
17 October 2018
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Accord Mortgages has launched five competitive remortgage options for borrowers with a 25%, 20% or 10% deposit. The new remortgage range from...
22 February 2018
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Six in ten parents can afford to financially support their children to buy their first home, while only 5% can pay...
24 October 2017
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Yorkshire Building Society is launching a range of two-year mortgages to help first-time buyers (FTBs) take their first steps on the...
12 October 2017
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Accord Mortgages is offering its lowest ever two-year fixed rate at 80% loan-to-value (LTV) with a 0.99% two-year fixed rate mortgage...
25 September 2017
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New data from mortgage lender, Vida Homeloans, found more first-time buyers are seeking lenders for deals that cater to their needs...
08 September 2017
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The number of first-time buyers and buyers of investment properties has fallen in the last two years, My Home Move say. First-time...
21 August 2017
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A study revealed that a third of young people would choose to buy and live in a caravan if they couldn’t...
09 August 2017
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Fresh statistics suggest the UK’s mortgage market has been boosted again, with approvals for home lending up month on month and...
04 August 2017
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Accord Buy to Let has bolstered its range of fixed rate mortgages for landlords with deposits of 25% or more. The lender,...
28 July 2017
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10 May 2017
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Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched two new fee-free high LTV mortgages. The fix then discount products are completely fee-free and...
28 March 2017
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A quarter of young people believe the only way they'll ever own a home is by inheriting cash, research by Halifax has...
22 March 2017
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Financial mutual OneFamily has extended its lifetime mortgage range, increasing its number of products from four to six. The two new additions...
01 February 2017
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Average buy-to-let loans and deposits increased in 2016, new research from The Mortgage Broker Ltd has revealed. This came as a result...
27 January 2017
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Data published this week by the Resolution Foundation confirms the continuation of the downward trend in home ownership in the UK. Since 2003...
04 August 2016
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Skipton Building Society has removed its maximum loan size cap for first-time buyers. It said this follows a 20% increase in UK house...
03 June 2016
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The gap between mortgage rates at different LTVs has narrowed dramatically, making life easier for borrowers with small deposits. Mortgage rates for borrowers...
24 May 2016
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The cost of servicing a mortgage for buyers with small deposits has fallen sharply over the past 12 months, according to...
06 May 2016
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Post Office Money has launched a number of mortgage deals and reduced rates on many existing deals. It says the new deals...
21 April 2016
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Single first-time buyers and couples can significantly cut the time it takes to save for a deposit by moving back in...
18 April 2016
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Specialist mortgage package and distributor Atom has announced a new relationship with Kensington Mortgages. Dale Jannels, managing director at Atom, which stands...
18 April 2016
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House purchase values rose 20% in the final quarter of 2015 yet there was also a worrying drop in higher-LTV lending. The...
09 March 2016
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The number of high-LTV deals aimed at first-time buyers is almost back at pre-financial crisis levels. Mortgages at 90% and 95% LTV...
24 February 2016
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The average house purchase deposit jumped 15% in a year to more than £80,000 in December. This is its highest point since the...
27 January 2016
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The number of 95% LTV mortgages rose by 84% in the last year after a surge of product launches over the...
17 December 2015
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The Mortgage Works (TMW) has cut new mortgage rates by up to 0.85% on its Buy to Let 2 year products to...
11 December 2015
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Santander has joined the growing list of banks and building societies that are announcing the rates on their Help to Buy...
01 December 2015
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Leading lenders Halifax and Nationwide have announced how much interest they will be paying on their Help to Buy Isas. The new...
30 November 2015
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The mortgage price war for higher-LTV loans has intensified with Yorkshire Building Society launching a 3.78% two-year fixed rate mortgage for...
26 October 2015
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Barclays is launching fee-free mortgages with up to £1,000 in cash back from today. Its new purchase-only products are available on LTVs from 60% to...
22 October 2015
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Just 12% of UK adults believe access to mortgages has improved in the past five years, despite recent moves to open...
14 October 2015
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Three lenders have launched new residential mortgages aimed at buyers needing higher loan-to-value (LTV) deals. Yorkshire, Leeds and Teachers building societies have...
07 October 2015
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The government-backed Help to Buy home-loan scheme continues to offer vital support to the mortgage market two years after its launch,...
01 October 2015
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A new report from the Bank of England shows that approvals of loans for house purchases hit a 2015 high in...
01 October 2015
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The cost of taking the first step on the property ladder is soaring according to new figures from estate agent chain...
30 September 2015
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NatWest Intermediary Solutions is reducing rates on a number of higher-LTV residential mortgages in its broker portfolio from today. It will also...
18 September 2015
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First-time buyers with relatively small deposits are finding it increasingly hard to get on the property ladder, new research shows. The typical...
15 September 2015
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Nationwide is aiming to boost first-time buyer mortgage lending with £1 billion of new low deposit products. It is launching a range...
10 September 2015
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The Mortgage Works (TMW) has launched its cheapest ever fixed-rate buy-to-let products with rate cuts of up to 0.50%. It has also...
25 August 2015
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Applicants with smaller deposits are increasingly securing mortgages as lenders offer more high-LTV loans, new research suggests. Nearly half of all homebuyers...
11 August 2015
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The number of first-time buyers plunged more than 27% in the year to June, with no sign of a post-election bounce. There...
31 July 2015
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Platform has revised its mainstream mortgage range for brokers by cutting fixed rates at 80% and 90% LTV. The intermediary lender of...
31 July 2015
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Nationwide Building Society is today cutting rates on a number of fixed-rate deals for customers with small deposits. The organisation said it...
16 July 2015
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Difficulties in putting together deposits and the General Election put a dampener on the number of first-time buyers completing property purchases...
06 July 2015
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Nationwide has cut its two-year fixed rates for borrowers with smaller deposits by up to 0.25%. And it has made further reductions...
29 June 2015
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Mortgage borrowing jumped to a six-year high in May and average deposits also hit a new post-recession peak, new figures show. Deposits have...
26 June 2015
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Chelsea Building Society has reduced rates for customers with 10% and 5% deposits, in what it says is a bid to...
25 June 2015
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Platform has launched a new mortgage range for brokers and with cuts to selected fixed rate mortgages of up to 0.25%. The new rates...
25 June 2015
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Help to Buy schemes have created 131 new homeowners every day since April 2013, Housing Minister Brandon Lewis has said. More than...
19 June 2015
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The Co-operative bank has launched the UK's lowest ever two-year fixed-rate mortgage rate at just 1.09%. The loan, available up to 60%...
01 May 2015
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Improve mortgage affordability is helping borrowers on lower incomes to climb the property ladder. Mortgage applications surged 18% in March in response to...