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...
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COMMENT

Commonhold and Leasehold Reform

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

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House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

Homebuyers should consider how they would meet mortgage payments if illness or injury affected...
Conveyancing

Simplify’s trust gives £22,500 to nine local charities

The Simplify Charitable Trust has donated £22,500 to nine charities working in communities across...
Buy-to-let

Landlords turn to portfolio refinancing to fund expansion

More than three-quarters of landlords are considering refinancing their existing portfolios to fund further...
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LiveMore launches mortgage for homes with spray foam insulation

LiveMore has launched a mortgage designed for homeowners whose properties have become difficult to...

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