LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Accord back to offering 90% LTV mortgages more consistently

Tomorrow (18 November) Accord Mortgages will reintroduce a selection of 90% LTV products into...

FCA confirms Covid support for mortgage borrowers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed updated guidance to firms setting out "enhanced...

Funding 365 attains CBILS accreditation

Funding 365 has been accredited as a new lender under the Coronavirus Business Interruption...

MAB to provide fee free advice to Blue Light Card members

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has agreed a new partnership with Blue Light Card, a...

No payment holiday arranged for half of missed payments

Pepper Money has revealed that almost half of people who have missed payments on credit...

Mortgage search volumes rose after second lockdown began

Twenty7Tec has published data on the state of the mortgage market one week after...

Reward Finance Group funds sanitiser business growth

Wolverhampton-based X-Mist, which has invented a dry sanitation process, has received a £400,000 business...

Fiduciam grows N. Ireland operations with wedding venue loan

Fiduciam is expanding its operations in Northern Ireland with the issuing of a Coronavirus...

A very different lockdown

The second national lockdown in England is now underway and there does seem to...

Kuflink sees investment levels recover to pre-Covid levels

Peer-to-peer based bridging lender, Kuflink, has reported that new investment levels have recovered to...

Financial implications of kids returning home revealed

35% of grown up children have returned to the family home,= since the beginning...

Tenant demand stalls in central London

New research has found that landlords saw increased tenant demand in most regions in...

TMA: use tech to deal with product maturation spike

TMA Club is calling on advisers who aren’t doing so already to start using...

House price growth to slow despite record highs

Halifax has revealed that house prices in October were 7.5% higher than in the...

COMMENT

Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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Skipton to cut residential rates and revive three-year fixes

Skipton Building Society is cutting rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...

The Leek lowers mortgage rates across residential and specialist products

Leek Building Society is cutting mortgage rates across parts of its residential, shared ownership,...

Fleet Mortgages adds two-year tracker products to buy-to-let range

Fleet Mortgages has launched three new two-year tracker mortgages at 75% loan-to-value across its...

Norton Home Loans provides remortgage on PRC home in Southampton

Norton Home Loans has completed a £218,000 remortgage for joint applicants in Southampton, allowing...

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