The UK buy-to-let market has grown to almost two million outstanding mortgages worth £311.6bn, 30 years after the first products carrying the buy-to-let name were launched.
September 1996 marked the public launch of buy-to-let at a press conference at...
The Financial Conduct Authority is working with industry, government and consumer groups in an effort to encourage more people to consider protection insurance, after...
Family Building Society has appointed Laura Hamp as chief financial officer and a member of its board of directors.
Hamp (pictured) joined the society earlier...
The Conveyancing Association has appointed former LMS chief executive Nick Chadbourne as its new non-executive chair as the sector prepares for further reform of...
Rely has introduced a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates starting at 2.85% and new fee options across one-year, two-year and five-year fixed products.
The...
Gable Mortgages has launched a 100% loan-to-value mortgage range aimed at first-time buyers and home movers who can afford repayments but do not have a cash deposit.
The range includes five-year fixed-rate products for standard residential purchases and selected...
A typical private renter would need almost 21 months to save the £26,409 required for a first home, even if they could put aside all of their income left after tax and rent, according to analysis from Konnect...
AI compliance platform Curvestone has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network.
The partnership will see Curvestone continue to work with OpenAI as it develops and deploys AI-based compliance technology for regulated financial services firms.
The...
Mortgage cases with one or two complications are becoming the new “vanilla” as affordability pressures and changing borrower circumstances push more customers beyond traditional high street criteria.
The changing shape of the market emerged during the latest Knowledge Bank...
The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...
Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...
Family Building Society has reintroduced its fixed-rate mortgage range with rates increased by 0.60 percentage points following recent swap rate volatility.
The lender temporarily withdrew its fixed-rate products on 4 September and has now relaunched the range across both owner-occupier and buy-to-let mortgages.
Family BS said...
The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the way we think about retirement.
The triple lock was introduced in 2010 against a backdrop of serious concerns about pensioner poverty....
The Right DA Club has added Shepherds Friendly to its protection panel, giving member firms access to the mutual's income protection proposition.
The directly authorised proposition from The Right Mortgage said the addition would broaden the range of protection options available to its member firms.
Shepherds...
