interest-only mortgages

LiveMore launches £500 cashback range for over-50s

LiveMore has launched a fee-assisted £500 cashback mortgage range. Lending exclusively to borrowers over 50,...

Newcastle Intermediaries reduces interest-only rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has made rate reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points across its...

Hodge improves Professional Mortgage interest-only criteria

Hodge has announced changes to its Professional Mortgage, offering customers with complex incomes greater...

First-time buyers leading market activity

Stabilising interest rates are fuelling activity in the mortgage market despite longstanding affordability concerns,...

Hanley Economic BS launches trio of new residential deals

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced three new residential products up to 95% LTV. The...

The Co-operative Bank rebrands Platform

Platform, the intermediary lender of The Co-operative Bank, has been rebranded to become The...

Nottingham BS updates interest-only mortgage terms

Nottingham Building Society has announced an update to its mortgage offerings, introducing an update...

Fewer than one million outstanding interest-only mortgages, says FCA

The number of interest-only (750,000) and part-interest-only (245,000) mortgages has halved since 2015, according...

LiveMore cuts mortgage rates following fall in swap rates

24 hours since swap rates reduced, LiveMore has lowered rates across selected mortgage products...

LiveMore unveils flexible ‘5+5’ fixed rate mortgage

LiveMore has launched a 10-year mortgage for borrowers aged 50 to 90+, but with...

Rise in interest-only mortgage searches

Data from Legal & General’s Ignite platform has shown that there has been an...

Clydesdale Bank unveils new Professional mortgage deals

Clydesdale Bank has launched new Professional range products. The new products are as follows: NEW...

Family BS unveils new fixed rate range

Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of fixed rate mortgage products following...

Clydesdale Bank adds new product transfer deals amidst range shake-up

Clydesdale Bank has made a number of changes to its product offering. Changes have been...

COMMENT

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

Latest news

Beverley enhances SIPP income assessment

Beverley Building Society has introduced a tiered approach to assessing income from self-invested personal...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM)...

Conveyancing costs hold at 0.53% of house prices

Conveyancing costs remained unchanged as a proportion of UK house prices during the year...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers...

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