First-time buyer 90% mortgages are reserved for ‘gold-plated’ borrowers, warn mortgage brokers

Aspiring homeowners hoping to buy their first property with a 10 per cent deposit face limited choice and higher costs than they did a year ago. Of the 86 mortgages available to first-time buyers with a 10 per cent deposit, only 25 of these mortgages are available to all, according to analysis by Defaqto. It … Read more

A third of buy-to-let mortgages vanish but could an AI tool help

Landlords have seen the number of buy-to-let mortgages slide by almost a third over the past year and rates on offer rise, data shows. The buy-to-let mortgage crunch has seen 800 of the 2,592 deals for landlords on offer in November 2019 vanish, a drop of 31 per cent, according to data from Moneyfacts.  Meanwhile, … Read more

First-time buyer mortgages are back: Banks launch a host of new deals

First-time buyer mortgages are back as banks launch a host of new deals and cash incentives By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 1 December 2020 First-time buyers have been offered a glimmer of hope as banks launch a host of new deals and … Read more

Hope for first-time buyers as YBS launches 90% mortgages

First-time buyers squeezed by the mortgage crunch have been given another ray of hope as Yorkshire Building Society launches home loans for borrowers with a 10 per cent deposit.  The move from one of Britain’s biggest building societies is better news for borrowers who have seen nine in ten of the mortgages for those with … Read more

Mortgage rates plummet for those with lots of equity while 90 per cent mortgages get more expensive

Cash-rich borrowers are being offered ever-cheaper mortgages while lenders have hiked prices for first-time buyers with small deposits for the fourth month in a row.   With 95 per cent deals having vanished from the market, 90 per cent deals have become a lifeline for would-be homeowners struggling to save a deposits worth tens of thousands … Read more

Home buyers to stump up 40 per cent deposits as TSB and Barclays stop handing out mortgages

Now home buyers need to stump up 40 per cent deposits to get a mortgage as economic devastation from coronavirus threatens a new credit crunch TSB has withdrawn two-year mortgage deals with less than 40 per cent deposits Barclays has ended mortgages for borrowers with less than a 25 per cent deposit A Bank of … Read more

How will the Prime Ministers plan to offer 95% mortgages work?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson today promised to turn ‘generation rent into generation buy’ with plans to boost the availability of long-term mortgages for homebuyers with a small deposit. In a speech to the virtual Conservative Party conference the PM said up to two million people who could afford repayments cannot currently get home loans. He … Read more

Postcodes with biggest house price increase according to Barclays Mortgages Postcode Property Index

House prices in Oldham are increasing the most across UK towns and cities and at DOUBLE the national average, Barclays Mortgages’ Postcode Property Index reveals – and Croydon is seeing the biggest growth in London House prices in 0L8, in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have seen the biggest rise Property value increased by an average of … Read more

Give homeowners help to pay their mortgages, think tank tells government

Give homeowners help to pay their mortgages, think tank tells government as payment holidays draw to a close in weeks Homeowners have been able to take a mortgage holiday during lockdown As part of the government scheme, those who paused payments have not been officially penalised on their credit reports That protection ends on 31 … Read more

Bank of Scotland facing court over shared appreciation mortgages

Bank of Scotland facing court battle with homeowners stung by debts linked to house prices after shared appreciation mortgage scandal negotiations fail Shared appreciation mortgages have left elderly homeowners owing Bank of Scotland and Barclays enormous debts due to house price inflation  Law firm Teacher Stern has been fighting for fairer charges for those affected … Read more