criteria

No maximum age for Hinckley & Rugby mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has removed any maximum age limit for the...

Aldermore shakes up its residential and buy-to-let criteria

Aldermore has revamped residential and buy-to-let mortgage offerings. It has made the following changes to...

Vernon Intermediaries now allows 40-year terms

Vernon Intermediaries has extended its maximum mortgage term to 40 years from 35, to take...

Top broker criteria search for self-employed borrowers

The monthly Criteria Activity Tracker provided by Knowledge Bank has revealed the most search...

John Charcol adopts Criteria Hub platform

Criteria Hub, the self-styled 'deep search' criteria engine, is the provide John Charcol's DA...

Knowledge Bank unveils Criteria Activity Tracker

Knowledge Bank has launched a new monthly Criteria Activity Tracker to keep brokers and...

How to avoid getting tangled up in knots

I was interested to read that the Loughborough Building Society has decided to do...

Criteria Hub sees evidence of increasing older life mortgage activity

Criteria Hub has published the top threesearches made by criteria broker users in residential...

The Hanley Economic BS changes near prime criteria

The Hanley Economic Building Society has made two key criteria changes within its near prime...

Lenders helped by Criteria Hub data

Criteria Hub has claimed it is providing lenders with valuable product point feedback via enquiries...

New residential lending tiers at Aldermore

Aldermore has created two new lending tiers across its standard range of residential mortgages. The...

TMW revises maximum age criteria for lower LTV BTL applications

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is removing its age limit at application for experienced landlords...

Criteria checking: trying to reach the right destination

There are many people now driving who have never looked at a paper map...

Pepper Money unveils new criteria to tackle “interesting” cases

Pepper Money has made changes to its product range with the stated aim of making...

COMMENT

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

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Borrowers shift back to 2-year fixes as rate hopes grow

Mortgage borrowers are increasingly opting for 2-year fixed-rate deals as expectations build that mortgage...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR...

Stonebridge releases 2026 Regional Roadshow dates

Stonebridge has released its 2026 Regional Roadshow dates and revealed where it will be...

Pepper Money cuts rates across resi and affordable homes range

Pepper Money has cut rates across its residential and affordable home ownership range. Residential rates...

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