Mortgages

Smart Money People relaunches mortgage research for vulnerable customers

Smart Money People has relaunched its vulnerability-focused research into the UK mortgage market, expanding...

Vida cuts rates and broadens criteria in specialist push

Specialist lender Vida has announced a series of sweeping changes across its buy-to-let and...

Norton Finance named launch partner for new lender

Norton Finance has been announced as a launch partner for Afin Bank, the newly...

RAW Capital Partners cuts rates and simplifies pricing at higher LTVs

RAW Capital Partners has announced a series of pricing changes, including rate cuts at...

NatWest appoints PEXA to digitise remortgage process

NatWest has signed a formal agreement with PEXA Group to begin implementing the digital...

More shock as buyers face pressure to use estate agents’ mortgage brokers

New research commissioned by Boon Brokers has revealed widespread concerns over pressure tactics used...

Remortgage pipeline builds despite June slowdown in completions

The UK remortgage market remained steady in June, with new instructions and cancellations holding...

Gen H the latest lender to lift loan-to-income caps

Gen H has announced a series of significant changes to its loan-to-income (LTI) policy...

LiveMore doubles applications and launches major recruitment drive

LiveMore, the later life lending specialist, has more than doubled mortgage applications in the...

Renters face steeper rise in housing costs than mortgage holders

Private renters have seen their monthly housing costs rise more sharply than mortgaged homeowners...

Clydesdale Bank to cut selected residential rates

Clydesdale Bank will reduce rates across a number of its residential mortgage products from...

Borrowers take on larger mortgages as lenders ease affordability rules

Mortgage borrowers took advantage of loosened lending criteria in May, selecting significantly larger loans...

Gen H partners with Sesame to broaden distribution

Gen H has added mortgage network Sesame to its distribution panel, marking the latest...

Cleverly returns to frontbench as shadow secretary of state for housing

Kemi Badenoch has brought former leadership rival Sir James Cleverly back to the Conservative...
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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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News

Alps expands landlord insurance add-ons on Acturis

Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the...
Analysis

Lifetime ISAs linked to £67.5bn of first-time buyer property purchases

Lifetime ISAs have helped more than 417,000 people buy their first home since the...
Economy

Landbay webinar to examine outlook for rates and UK economy

Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation...
First-time buyers

Cost of living hits homeownership plans for more than half of young Scots

More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest...

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