LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

Barclays reintroduces large loans and 75% BTL

Barclays Mortgages has made changes across its residential, buy-to-let and reward ranges. The bank is reducing...

PRIMIS sees 29% rise in broker queries since Covid-19 outbreak

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has reported that its product desk resolved a total of 4,641...

Bluestone Mortgages resumes lending full range

Bluestone Mortgages has recommenced new lending activity on all products in its residential and...

New Landbay BTL range offers 75% LTV

Landbay has launched a new product range with loan to values up to 75%...

Surveying a different landscape

Throughout this crisis, and certainly from a housing market perspective, it’s often felt that...

CA provides sector-specific guidance for conveyancing firms

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has issued newly-published sector-specific guidance for conveyancing firms in order...

The Yorkshire removes property value restrictions

The Yorkshire Building Society has removed all property value restrictions and returned its maximum...

LMS: May remortgage instruction spike continues

LMS has today published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the...

Cirencester Friendly pilots HCB Group tele-triage service

Cirencester Friendly has appointed the HCB Group to support claimants during the Coronavirus crisis. The income...

Gatehouse Bank raises FTV limits

Gatehouse Bank has introduced 75% Finance to Value (FTV) limits on its buy-to-let and...

IMLA: first-time buyers key to economic recovery

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is calling on the government to assess the...

Accord ups max loan size and removes property value restrictions

Accord Mortgages has removed all property value restrictions and returned its maximum loan size...

Covid-19: LV= unveils premium reduction option

LV= is introducing a premium reduction option for existing protection policyholders. The provider said the...

Pure Retirement unveils new valuation processes

Pure Retirement has introduced a new valuation processes across its full product range, in...

COMMENT

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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Zoopla signs Manchester Super Giants shirt deal

Zoopla has become the first official front-of-shirt partner of Manchester Super Giants for the...

Southwest Knotweed launches identification app

Southwest Knotweed Group has launched an app designed to help mortgage and property professionals...

Broker Conveyancing launches referral hub for advisers

Broker Conveyancing has launched a referral platform intended to make it quicker for mortgage...

House price rise puts mortgage resilience in sharper focus

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

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