Green mortgages

Foundation Home Loans adds new 65% LTV Green Reward BTL remortgage

Foundation Home Loans has cut rates across its five-year fixed-rate mortgage range for landlord borrowers,...

Virgin Money re-offers 95% LTV on shared ownership

Virgin Money has relaunched its 95% LTV shared ownership deals. It has also unveiled a...

Virgin Money unveils Greener Mortgages

Virgin Money has launched Greener Mortgages, offering lower rates of interest to customers buying...

Barclays to cut residential and BTL rates tomorrow

Barclays is making changes across its residential (including Mortgage Guarantee Scheme (MGS) and Green...

Keystone cuts rates and offers increased cashback

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates by up to 0.25 percentage points and has...

NatWet makes new business rate changes

NatWest is making a number of changes to its product range for new business...

Barclays improves green offering and bonus policy

Barclays has updated its lending policies for green home mortgages and bonuses. The changes are...

NatWest to cut rates by up to 34bps

NatWest is changing mortgage rates on products for new and existing customers. These changes include...

Paragon unveils green further advance products

Paragon Bank has launched two further advance products for properties with EPC ratings of...

Barclays lowers green home mortgage rate

Barclays has made changes to its green home mortgage range. The bank says the change...

Large rise in landlord interest in green mortgages

62% of landlords say they are interested in mortgages that reward borrowers with discounted...

Foundation adds ‘Green Reward’ residential remortgage

Foundation Home Loan has unveiled a ‘Green Reward’ remortgage as part of its residential range. The...

Paragon issues green bonds worth £150m

Paragon Banking Group has issued £150 million in Tier 2 Green Bonds. It is the...

Help landlords with green rules, Chancellor told

Online buy-to-let mortgage broker, Property Master, is calling on the Chancellor to offer more...

COMMENT

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

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...

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Financial services firms sign skills pact ahead of Chancellor’s Mansion House speech

More than 20 financial services organisations have signed a new agreement with government aimed...

Brilliant Solutions partners with Box Socials

Brilliant Solutions has partnered with Box Socials to give its members discounted access to...

Mortgage rates fall at fastest pace in almost two years

Fixed mortgage rates have recorded their biggest monthly reductions for almost two years, as...

Solo first-time buyers face almost a decade of saving before they can buy

Solo first-time buyers face saving for almost a decade before they can afford to...

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