Green mortgages

Leeds BS refreshes longer-term fixed range

Leeds Building Society has added three new deals at 90% LTV to its range...

Millions expected to make energy efficient home improvements

Butterfield Mortgages has commissioned an independent survey among 1,468 UK homeowners to find out...

Gatehouse Bank enhances green home finance offering

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its green home finance offering. Previously only available to...

Twenty7tec adds Tandem Bank to SOURCE

Twenty7tec has added Tandem Bank to its SOURCE module. In 2022, Tandem Bank launched its...

Leeds BS updates greener home affordability calculator

Leeds Building Society has announced the launch of a new capability which improves the...

Broker handbook on Green Home Retrofit and Technologies published

The Broker Handbook on Green Home Retrofit and Technologies, designed to support brokers in...

Foundation Home Loans cuts buy-to-let and owner occupier rates

Foundation Home Loans has made further price reductions across its owner-occupier and buy-to-let product...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds Tandem Bank to panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added Tandem Bank to its lender panel. The...

Borrowers considering green options amidst soaring energy bills

Legal & General has revealed which areas of the mortgage market are continuing to...

SBI UK adds 50% LTV deal to offering

State Bank of India (UK) has relaunched its fixed rate buy-to-let products. The range offers...

Homeowners lacking energy efficiency awareness

New research from the Skipton Group has highlighted a gap in home efficiency knowledge...

Majority of renters want properties with EPCs of A-C

58% of private renters would be less likely to look at a rental property...

Paradigm introduces 2023 mortgage market insights videos

Paradigm has launched Paradigm Insights, a series of short interviews with senior lending personnel...

Skipton unveils three new green mortgage products

Skipton Building Society is introducing three new additional green borrowing mortgages to its range. This...

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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