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    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      House & Home
      How London’s property market became an inheritocracy

      Without inherited wealth or a leg-up from the Bank of Mum and Dad, prospective first-time buyers are forced to abandon dreams of home ownership

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Property sector
      Growing struggle for owners of flats trading up

      Prices of houses in England and Wales have increased much faster than those of apartment homes

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Property sector
      TSB slashes mortgage rates by up to 1.3 percentage points

      UK lenders are jostling for home loan customers in spite of rising Bank of England base rates

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Mortgage shock: what next for embattled borrowers?

      Spiralling home loan rates add to households’ cost of living pressures

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Cost of living crisis
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      Seeking FT readers prepared to chat about how rising inflation is affecting their lives

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Ian Mulheirn
      Mortgage reform is key to unlocking UK home ownership

      The country is a global outlier in managing credit risk

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      Personal Finance
      Cash buyers drive sales and prices in UK housing boom

      Interest rate rises and cost of living squeeze likely to strengthen the role of mortgage-free buyers

    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Money Clinic podcast: How to buy your first property

      After the hard work of saving for a deposit, here’s everything first-time buyers need to know

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      UK property taxation
      Stamp duty receipts hit record high after tax holiday ends

      Booming sales at the top end of the market pushed takings to nearly £3bn in the last quarter of 2021

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
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      Overtaxed and underpaid: no wonder young investors love crypto

      Rising taxes and inflation are pushing young people further up the risk curve

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
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      The plight of the UK’s first-time buyers

      The immediate pressures of the pandemic may have eased, but prospective homeowners must now contend with record prices and a looming cost of living crisis

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      ‘The Aga’s not included’: tales from an overheated property market

      Disputes can flare up between homebuyers and sellers over fixtures and fittings

    • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
      Personal Finance
      Growth in outright home ownership predicted to stall

      Mortgaged homeowners in England will make repayments for longer, leading to fewer cash buyers, research finds

    • Friday, 17 December, 2021
      UK business & economy
      UK mortgage market braced for surge ahead of further rate rises

      Bank of England’s rates move prompts surge in inquiries on remortgaging and borrowing at brokers

    • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Beware the property trap ensnaring young buyers

      Under-40s find the Lifetime Isa has shortlived benefits

    • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
      Pandemic prompts UK first-time buyers to put purchases on hold

      Lockdowns have had a disproportionate effect on the finances of younger buyers, according to research

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      Mortgages
      Home movers overtake first-time buyers to drive housing market

      Mortgage completions by movers up by 82 per cent in first quarter of 2021

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Property sector
      UK banks exclude new homes from low-deposit mortgage scheme

      Lenders wary of helping first-time buyers of new-builds judged vulnerable to price falls

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    • Friday, 22 January, 2021
      Personal Finance
      Housing transactions hit 13-year high

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      Residential property
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      Property expert claims model is ‘God’s way of telling you that you can’t afford to buy there’

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      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      Move over Help to Buy — now it’s help yourself to your pension

      Allowing first-time buyers to raid their retirement pots won’t solve the affordability problem for long

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      Personal pensions
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    • Friday, 9 October, 2020
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      Lenders wary of risky loans owing to bleak economic outlook and rising unemployment

    • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
      Banking industry sounds alarm on Johnson’s housing plan

      Trade body warns against irresponsible lending after PM proposes low-deposit mortgages

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