First time buyers

The second part of the Help to Buy scheme will be available from next week after the Government brought forward the launch date by three months.

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has warned the government's Help to Buy scheme will make it harder for would-be first-time buyers to get onto the housing ladder.

More than a quarter of home-buyers in England and Wales are now paying stamp duty at the higher rates of 3% or more, research suggests.

HSBC has launched the lowest ever fixed rate mortgage seen in the UK mortgage market with a 1.49% headline rate product.

Lloyds Banking Group is back in the black after announcing a profit before tax of £2.1bn for the six months to the end of June - and said it is on course to target IFA clients orphaned by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

The housing market revival witnessed in recent months may soon become a full-scale recovery, figures obtained by a property survey suggest.

Housing minister Mark Prisk has acknowledged older first-time buyers may miss out on the government's Help to Buy scheme.

A guide for people considering a move into the buy-to-let market.

Help to Buy could push first-time buyer house prices up 20% to more than £150,000 by the end of 2015, a financial consultancy has warned.

Hundreds of thousands of interest-only mortgage borrowers whose deals mature before 2020 are likely to face a funding shortfall, according to estimates produced for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).