interest-only mortgages

L&G in lifetime mortgage partnership with NatWest

Legal & General Home Finance is to offer its lifetime mortgages, including its Optional...

The Hinckley & Rugby offers mortgages for medics

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has introduced bespoke mortgages with enhanced criteria for...

Retirement lending expected to drive specialist mortgage market growth

Nearly 80% of mortgage intermediaries expect lending into retirement to be the fastest growing...

The Marsden offers RIO mortgages

The Marsden Building Society has become the latest lender to move into the Retirement Interest...

The Hanley Economic BS moves into RIO mortgage market

The Hanley Economic Building Society has unveiled a range of retirement interest-only (RIO) mortgages. The...

Brightstar launches interest-only & later life lending guide

Brightstar Financial has published a guide to interest-only mortgages and later life lending to...

Newcastle Intermediaries broadens interest-only offering

Newcastle Intermediaries is expanding its interest-only offer to its range of residential mortgages, including...

The Leeds cuts rate on RIO mortgage

The Leeds Building Society has cut its five year fixed rate Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Legal & General Home Finance partners with Virgin Money

Legal & General Home Finance has agreed a new five-year partnership agreement with Virgin...

The Leeds launches Retirement Interest Only mortgages

The Leeds Building Society has become the latest provider to launch Retirement Interest Only...

Spicerhaart Corporate Sales improves interest-only proposition

Spicerhaart Corporate Sales, which offers an asset management service for lenders including repossessions, part-...

The Tipton & Cosley offering retirement interest-only mortgages

The Tipton & Cosley Building Society is claiming to be the first society to...

Large reduction in number of live interest-only mortgages

UK Finance has revealed that the number of interest-only mortgages has almost halved in...

Bluestone Mortgages introduces interest-only BTLs

Bluestone Mortgages has made changes to its buy-to-let mortgage range and has introduced an interest-only...

COMMENT

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Leasehold valuation reform: the consultation is asking only half the question

The Government's consultation on leasehold enfranchisement valuation rates is important because it will help determine what leaseholders pay to extend leases or buy freeholds,...

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

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Millions of households exposed to financial shocks despite apparent stability

Millions of UK households that appear financially secure could struggle to absorb an unexpected...

The Mortgage Hut adopts Instamo tool to speed up mortgage applications

The Mortgage Hut has introduced Instamo's FastSubmit technology to reduce the amount of manual...

FCA sets out timetable for major expansion of anti-money laundering supervision

The FCA expects to begin taking over anti-money laundering supervision of legal, accountancy and...

MAB revenue rises as refinancing drives mortgage completions

Mortgage Advice Bureau reported an 8.6% increase in first-half revenue to £161.0m as higher...

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