Green mortgages

Mortgage Climate Action Group reveals growth plan

The Mortgage Climate Action Group (MCAG) has outlined the next stage of its growth...

Foundation Home Loans reprices residential mortgage offering

Foundation Home Loans has announced the repricing of its full residential mortgage range for...

Virgin Money to reintroduce mortgage range

Virgin Money is launching a new range of mortgage products for new customers on...

Top environmental QC publishes climate change advice

Environmental analytics business Groundsure has announced the latest legal climate risk advice it has...

Borrowers consider green mortgages amid rising energy bills

In July, searches for mortgages which consider a property’s EPC rating grew by 34%,...

LendInvest opens new Glasgow office

LendInvest has opened a new office in Scotland to meet increasing demand for property...

Busy beginning to August for mortgage activity

Twenty7Tec has issued its findings based on its mortgage platform data for August 2022. The...

Legal & General Mortgage Club unveils educational Green Hub

Legal & General Mortgage Club has launched a Green Hub to support the sector...

Environmental concerns losing importance for house buyers

As the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite, new call data from Moneypenny, shows eco...

Twenty7Tec: product availability at three-quarters of pre-pandemic levels

Twenty7Tec has published its findings based on its mortgage platform data for July 2022. Monthly...

We have “lift-off” in the green mortgage sector

In June, Twenty7Tec saw a fall in mortgage searches across all mortgage types, based...

Intermediaries and lenders central to implementing green change

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has hosted a Green Mortgage Event with mortgage intermediaries, lenders,...

SmartrCriteria sees surge in searches for self-employed clients

New data from Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool has shown that searches...

Tandem to provide second charge green discount

Digital bank Tandem has launched a new green product feature to its second charge...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

Affordability pressures deepen in Wales and North East as rental divergence widens

Regional divergence within the UK’s private rented sector has become more pronounced, with new...

Santander lowers mortgage pricing and unveils new large loan options

Santander is set to cut its residential fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.14...

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