Mortgages

Suffolk BS re-enters 95% LTV market

Suffolk Building Society has returned to the 95% loan to value (LTV) market with...

Kensington improves Professional product range

Kensington Mortgages has made changes to its Professionals product range and also launched new...

Skipton International now on Mortgage Brain platforms

Mortgage Brain has welcomed Skipton International to its Sourcing Brain and Criteria Brain platforms. The...

Q&A: Richard Harrison, Atom bank

BestAdvice fires the questions at Richard Harrison, head of mortgages, Atom bank. BestAdvice (BA): You...

Pepper Money appoints South West regional development manager

Pepper Money has bolstered its sales team with the promotion of Alex Hall to...

Fixed mortgage search long-term monthly average up significantly

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for May 2024, from activity on its platform. Purchase...

Butterfield Mortgages appoints relationship manager

Butterfield Mortgages has appointed Ashley Titley as a new relationship manager. Titley (pictured) has worked...

LiveMore ups max loan and allows more adverse

LiveMore has increased the maximum loan value across its core range of products from...

Gen H to show credit commitments to brokers during application stage

From now on, Gen H will show mortgage brokers the details of their clients’...

Mark Shelper returns to Pepper Money

Mark Shelper has rejoined Pepper Money as a national key account manager. Shelper (pictured) had...

Word On The Street appoints case manager

Mortgage brokerage Word On The Street has appointed Danielle Beswick as case manager. Beswick (pictured)...

April Mortgages extends HLPartnership distribution

April Mortgages has provided access to its mortgage range to all HLPartnership advisers and...

Newcastle for Intermediaries launches new digital mortgage platform

Newcastle for Intermediaries has launched a new mortgage platform for its broker partners as...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

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AGENT VIEW: I know I’m not a mathematician but to me 6.5 x is the new 3.5 x

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, as they say, and in an era of creeping inflation, job insecurity and the menacing spectre of...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape that had shifted more than I expected. The private B2C surveying...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

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...

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Commercial lenders insist human relationships still underpin the market

The commercial mortgage market remains firmly rooted in relationships, despite the growing influence of...

ModaMortgages cuts standard and limited edition buy-to-let rates

ModaMortgages, the specialist buy-to-let lender owned by Chetwood Bank, has reduced rates across its...

Atom bank widens near-prime range with new fee tier

Atom bank has expanded its near-prime mortgage offering with the introduction of a new...

Funding 365 reduces AVM bridge rates to 0.64%

Funding 365 has cut rates on its automated valuation model (AVM) bridging loans to...

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