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Barclays to cut selected residential purchase rates

Barclays has announced that it is reducing rates on a selection of products in...

Pepper Money increases all mortgage rates

Pepper Money has repriced its product range in response to rising SWAP rates. The specialist...

MPowered Mortgages lowers rates by up to 30bps

MPowered Mortgages has cut rates across its range of two, three and five-year fixed...

MHBS launches new no-fee mortgage range

Market Harborough Building Society has introduced a new suite of mortgages with no product...

Hanley Economic BS introduces fee-free two-year fix

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a fee-free two-year fixed rate product with a...

Broker forum outlines most popular topics for discussion

The sale of Tenetlime, whether brokers are looking at the end of the ‘fee-free’...

Buckinghamshire BS launches new fee-free shared ownership offering

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new shared ownership proposition with rates cut by...

Hanley Economic BS unveils two-year fee-free shared ownership fix

Hanley Economic Building Society has announced the launch of a fee-free two-year fixed rate...

Hanley Economic BS unveils fee-free 95% LTV five-year fix

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free 95% LTV five-year fixed rate into...

Skipton BS reintroduces two-year mortgage products

Skipton has relaunched a suite of two-year mortgage products. Within the range there are rate...

Coventry for intermediaries expands new business range

Coventry for intermediaries has bolstered its new business range with the launch of first...

Leeds BS unveils new five-year mortgages

Leeds Building Society has introduced new five-year fixed rate mortgage products to its range. The...

LiveMore partners with Mortgage Advice Bureau

LiveMore is continuing to expand its distribution by partnering with Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB). The...

Hanley Intermediaries unveils fee-free 5yr shared ownership mortgage

Hanley Intermediaries has launched a fee-free 3.75% five-year fixed rate shared ownership mortgage up...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

First-time buyer affordability remains strained despite narrowing house price gap

Only 12.1% of potential first-time buyers can afford the average starter home in their...

Royal London targets GP report delays with digital service

Royal London is expanding its use of digital medical evidence in an effort to...

Equifinance names Jackie Burchill as lending operations director

Equifinance has appointed Jackie Burchill as director of lending operations as the second charge...

House price-to-income ratio falls to 11-year low as mortgage costs rise

The gap between UK house prices and earnings has narrowed to its lowest level...

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