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StepLadder in City AM

Originally published on City AM, on Jan 30th 20-19, by Katherine Denham. Home buyers don’t need a deposit for a ‘Bank of Mum and Dad mortgage’, but does this signal a worrying trend? In the years leading up to the financial crisis, it was relatively easy for wannabe homeowners to get loans for […]

StepLadder in Best Advice

Originally published on BestAdvice, on Jan 16th 20-19, by Kevin Rose. Fintech supports generation rent onto property ladder Deposit saving platform StepLadder has launched a solution for first-time buyers across the UK, after a pilot in 2018. StepLadder groups members in ‘circles’ in which each individual contributes (through a peer-to-peer platform) an identical amount of money […]

StepLadder in Peer2Peer Finance News

Orginally publsihed on P2PFinanceNews, on Jan 15th, by Hannah Smith P2P start-up launches to help millennials on to property ladder FINTECH start-up StepLadder has launched a peer-to-peer savings platform which aims to help millennials onto the property ladder. StepLadder says it is the UK’s first collaborative deposit saving platform, inspired by credit unions and building […]

StepLadder in Business Cloud

Originally published on BusinessCloud, Jan 21st 2019, by Jonathan Symcox. FORMER SILICON VALLEY STAR TACKLING ‘GENERATION RENT’ CRISIS A former Silicon Valley entrepreneur has launched an innovative start-up that could help solve the UK’s ‘generation rent’ crisis. It is no secret that spiralling house prices – and therefore deposits – are pricing many people out […]

London rents rising almost three times faster than wages

The Guardian: London rents rising almost three times faster than wages, research finds The price of renting a two-bedroom flat in London has risen at almost three times the rate of earnings growth since 2011, new research has revealed. While the average rent for a two-bed in the capital soared 26 per cent to £1,500 […]