Mortgages

Barclays cuts five-year fixes again as lender pushes for market-leading position

Barclays is making further reductions across its residential mortgage range, with five-year fixed rates...

The Leeds launches green additional borrowing for home energy upgrades

Leeds Building Society has introduced a new stream of green additional borrowing aimed at...

Pivotal adopts AI-driven suitability checks in bid to raise compliance standards

Pivotal Group is rolling out an AI-powered compliance system across its mortgage services arm...

Primis expands sales team with four senior appointments

Primis has strengthened its national sales operation with the appointment of three new regional...

Cost of moving home reaches record £17,831 as Stamp Duty drives sharp rise

The cost of moving home in England has climbed to a record £17,831, placing...

Intermediary confidence softens ahead of Budget as completions hold steady

Intermediary confidence dipped slightly in the third quarter as brokers entered the final weeks...

Veitch joins Afin Bank board as independent non-executive director

Afin Bank has appointed Sally Veitch to its board as an independent non-executive director,...

House prices slide as wealthy buyers brace for Budget tax raid

House prices have recorded their sharpest November fall in more than a decade as...

Getting to know you: James Travers, Darlington Building Society

Name: James Travers Age: 38 Location: Teesside Firm: Darlington Building Society Education: CeMAP Specialty: Self-build Interests: The three Fs...

Santander makes third round of November rate cuts as pricing drifts lower

Santander will cut a wide swathe of its residential and buy-to-let pricing next week,...

Metro Bank cuts rates and returns to 80% buy-to-let lending

Metro Bank has made further cuts across its residential, near-prime and buy-to-let product ranges,...

Halifax eases mortgage access for non-UK nationals

Halifax has introduced changes to its lending criteria designed to make it easier for...

MQube unveils AI-driven underwriting tool to speed mortgage approval

MQube has introduced an AI-powered digital underwriting feature to its Origo platform in a...

Primis adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Primis has added April Mortgages to its lender panel, giving advisers within the network...
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COMMENT

networks

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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...

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Buy-to-let

ModaMortgages cuts rates with limited edition buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has launched a limited edition buy-to-let range with rates reduced by up to...
News

First-time buyers face confidence gap as unexpected costs and delays mount

Nine in 10 first-time buyers believe they understand the home-buying process before starting, but...
Appointments

Family BS hires Paul Ormonde for Central London broker role

Family Building Society has appointed Paul Ormonde as a business development manager covering Central...
funding

LendInvest raises £300m through latest Mortimer securitisation

LendInvest has completed its eighth Mortimer residential mortgage-backed securitisation, securing £300 million of funding...

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