It has been reported that the average monthly rental prices in the UK now surpass the payments of the average mortgage, meaning those who rent are likely worse off. According to research, someone paying off a mortgage would be better off by [...]
November saw a small victory for first time buyers, as the housing prices fell by £380. The average British home now costs just over £200,000, which is a decline month on month, but unfortunately is a raise over the year in total. [...]
Help to Buy ISAs (HtB ISAs) are finally on the market, and the creation of them has given the banks and lenders another battlefield on which to fight for customers. But which HtB ISAs are the best on the market in the [...]
The government's Help to Buy Individual Savings Account (ISA) is now live, and will allow first-time buyers to save into it with the government adding money to it. Just like normal ISAs, Help to Buy ISAs are tax-free accounts, which first-time buyers [...]
George Osborne is to set out the spending plans for the government later today, setting the economic scenery which will hopefully see housebuilding become a priority by 2020. £7 billion are set to be devoted to making housebuilding a priority. Despite the [...]
More companies have committed to the Help to Buy ISA scheme, the Chancellor has announced, as we get closer to the launch of the scheme on the 01 December. HSBC Aldermore, Newcastle Building Society and Clydesdale Bank have all agreed to offer [...]
Taylor Wimpey has reported significant rise in house sales over the last year, despite the fact that the housing market in the UK is a difficult place for people to buy. The house builder, which is an FTSE 100 company, reported an [...]
The amount of high loan-to-value mortgages lent out has almost doubled, supposedly as a result of the government's Help to Buy scheme. In the 18 months of the Help to Buy 2 scheme, leading up to June of this year, the number [...]
The eagerness (or desperation) of people to become homeowners for the first time has been highlighted by scenes in Hounslow last week, where buyers queued up over night, waiting to be the first to get a chance to buy a series of [...]
Although the housing market is not a great place for a first time buyer to get onto the property ladder, new figures indicate that it may not be as bad as we fear. Since the financial crash, it would appear that the [...]