Mortgages

Market Harborough raises loan thresholds to support high-value borrowing

Market Harborough Building Society has announced a significant uplift in its maximum loan sizes...

L&C Mortgages partners with OMS to drive CRM transformation

London and Country Mortgages has adopted a new customer relationship management solution from One...

Perenna renews and expands ABN AMRO warehouse facility to fund growth

Perenna Bank has renewed and significantly expanded its warehouse funding line with ABN AMRO. The...

The Leeds opens up additional borrowing to existing customers via Mortgage Hub

Leeds Building Society has launched a new facility enabling intermediaries to offer additional borrowing...

Accord shaves fixed rate pricing across residential mortgage range

Accord Mortgages has cut rates across its residential range. The intermediary-only lender is reducing rates...

AMI confirms board election results

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has announced the results of its latest board...

Darlington Building Society unveils high LTV fixed deals for complex cases

Darlington Building Society has introduced a series of rate reductions of up to 35...

Barclays unveils further mortgage rate cuts, including lowest of the year

Barclays is cutting mortgage rates once again, with a new tranche of reductions coming...

MPowered Mortgages cuts 3-year fixed rates to 3.88%

MPowered Mortgages, the one day mortgage lender, has, against a backdrop of rising swap...

Habito joins forces with Mastercard to ease mortgage process for SMEs

Habito has announced a new partnership with Mastercard’s Business Bonus Scheme in a move...

The Buckinghamshire cuts specialist credit product pricing

Buckinghamshire Building Society has introduced a new two-year fixed rate for buy-to-let investors and...

Gen H secures strategic funding deal with SilverRock to expand homeownership access

Fintech mortgage lender Gen H has struck a major funding partnership with specialist investor...

Bank of Mum and Dad boosts first-time buyer business at London broker AS Financial

London-based mortgage broker AS Financial has reported a notable increase in first-time buyer activity,...

Bank of Mum and Dad deepens divide in first-time buyer market

Family financial support is playing an increasingly decisive role in shaping the homeownership prospects...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Latest news

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...

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