Mortgages

LiveMore cuts standard and RIO mortgage rates

LiveMore has reduced rates on standard mortgages (capital and interest, and interest only), and...

Hinckley & Rugby reveals new brand imagery

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has unveiled its new, more modern branding. The brand refresh...

April Mortgages in distribution partnership with SPF Private Clients

April Mortgages has announced a new partnership with SPF Private Clients to expand its...

Conditional selling “getting worse”

A survey has suggested that the unlawful practice of conditional selling by estate agents...

Marsden BS introduces new lending into retirement offering

Marsden Building Society has expanded its mortgage proposition for those aged 55+ by unveiling...

IMLA calls for regulatory review into FTB barriers

The cumulative shortfall in first-time buyer numbers since the financial crisis reached 3.1m by...

April Mortgages appoints COO

April Mortgages has appointed Mark Eaton as chief operating officer (COO). Eaton (pictured) has been...

“Slow but steady” improvement in personal financial resilience

LV='s latest Wealth and Wellbeing Research Programme has highlighted how the personal finances of...

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rate pricing

MPowered Mortgages has lowered its fixed rates in response to the Bank of England’s...

Iress and Acre extend partnership

Iress has extended its partnership with Acre, the mortgage and protection platform. Under the...

Melanie Spencer joins Target Group

Melanie Spencer has joined Target Group as growth and sales lead, to help drive...

Mansfield BS to lend on 10-storey flats

Mansfield Building Society has extended the range of property types on its owner-occupied residential...

£1bn paid out in Stamp Duty in May

Coventry Building Society has analysed the latest HMRC figures and established that homebuyers paid...

Delivering a specialist FTB focus

The somewhat unexpected early election call will inevitably impact the UK housing market to...

COMMENT

Portfolio landlords reshape buy-to-let market

Portfolio landlords are becoming increasingly central to the buy-to-let market as investors take a more structured approach to property ownership. The market has seen a...

Supporting complex cases in a modern mortgage market

In today’s diverse mortgage landscape, brokers are working with a growing number of clients whose circumstances fall outside traditional lending models. From self-employed professionals...

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...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

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...

Latest news

Barclays cuts rates and launches sub-4% Premier tracker

Barclays will cut selected mortgage rates from Thursday 30 April and launch a Premier...

Millennials still locked out of homeownership

Only 5% of millennials have reached the life milestones they expected as teenagers, according...

Canada Life makes two executive committee appointments

Canada Life has appointed Rose St Louis as its first chief customer officer and...

The Suffolk brings back five-year residential and buy-to-let fixes

Suffolk Building Society is reintroducing four five-year fixed rate mortgage products after withdrawing them...

PROFILES