First time buyer

The Chancellor today gave a helping hand to motorists and first-time buyers but hit others with tax rises.

The fragile economic recovery looks set to disrupt the housing market during 2011 leading to property price falls, it was predicted today.

Property prices fell by 0.9% during August, figures from Nationwide Building Society reveal today.

The number of first-time buyers in the UK remained at near 20-year lows over the past 12 months.

First-time buyers (FTBs) who've got on the housing ladder are spending less of their income on servicing mortgage debt but many other wannabe homeowners are still struggling to buy.

The number of mortgages available to those with a small deposit has fallen by 17% since the beginning of the year, research reveals.

MoneySavers think the house price crash is over, according to a poll of this site's users.