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First-time buyers

April 2024

  • A couple unloading boxes and furniture from the rear of a moving van, ready to move into their new bungalow together.

    ‘It’ll be a massive saving’: why more people in the UK are downsizing home

    Some Britons are aiming to cut their mortgage costs and lower stress levels by moving to a smaller property

March 2024

  • Illustration: Mark Long

    First-time buyer schemes: five ways to get on the UK property ladder

  • Illustration: Mark Long

    UK first-time buyers: how to get yourself mortgage ready

  • Micheál Costello

    Diary of a first-time buyer: ‘Five brokers, four offers – but at last I’m a homeowner’

  • Woman looking at ads in an estate agent’s window

    First-time buyers: how to pick a mortgage and the best UK deals

  • Fantasy house hunt
    Dream homes for first-time buyers in England – in pictures

  • Mortgage reforms have excluded first-time buyers, say UK building societies

February 2024

  • ruins of abbey in distance, harbour in foreground

    UK lender trials ban on new holiday let mortgages for tourist hotspots

    Leeds building society believes it is the first to restrict new lending for holiday homes in Norfolk and Yorkshire

January 2024

  • Terraced townhouses in Chelsea, London

    UK house prices rise at strongest rate in a year

  • Silhouette of two people looking at homes for sale in an estate agents window

    Property
    Number of UK first-time buyers in 2023 was lowest in a decade

December 2023

  • Rear view of woman using smartphone while looking at a for sale sign on a house

    UK property market: what will happen to house prices and mortgage rates in 2024?

  • Rishi Sunak

    Reports of scrapping inheritance tax in budget ‘just speculation’, says No 10

November 2023

  • Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

    Fantasy house hunt
    Homes for UK first-time buyers – in pictures

    From a picturesque Oxfordshire cottage to a grand Georgian tenement flat in Edinburgh

October 2023

  • Residential properties near Aylesbury

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should I use my lifetime Isa to buy a house to rent out or wait until I leave the forces?

  • to let signs

    Ask the experts: homebuying
    Should we add our children’s names to our buy-to-let mortgage?

September 2023

  • Man doing renovation work at home together with his small dog

    First-time buyers in UK drop by a fifth as higher mortgage costs bite

    Lender says homes needing renovation are most in demand as people seek cheaper properties
  • Different coloured houses in Brighton, UK

    As UK mortgage interest rates fall, should you choose a two-year or five-year fix?

    Bank of England halts run of base rate rises but borrowers still have much to ponder

    • Help-to-buy delays leave borrowers unable to sell or remortgage and paying more

    • HSBC and NatWest cut mortgage rates again as rivals tipped to follow

    • Third of UK mortgage holders ‘do not think they will pay it off by 65’

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