Mortgages

Gen H partners to launch new Property Decisioning Engine

Gen H has partnered with Legal & General Surveying Services and Rightmove to launch...

LiveMore ups standard mortgage LTV ratio

LiveMore has increased the loan to value (LTV) ratio on its standard interest-only mortgages...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) partners with Perenna

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added mortgage bank Perenna to its lender panel. The partnership...

Marsden BS unveils 95% LTV residential deals

Marsden Building Society has launched two new residential mortgage products at 95% loan to...

Dudley BS provides £998k remo for child’s FTB purchase

Dudley Building Society, in collaboration with mortgage specialist SPF Private Clients, has completed a...

Virgin Money new purchase exclusives with free valuations

Virgin Money is launching new products tomorrow (Friday 22 November). It has also increased a...

New deals: Vida improves affordability and simplifies criteria

Vida has made changes to help more clients and better broker's experience of the...

Q&A: Matt Harrison, finova Broker

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Matt Harrison, commercial director, finova Broker. Mortgage Soup (MS):...

West One revamps criteria to open up to more residential borrowers

West One Loans is to add two new credit tiers to its residential range...

Foundation brands launch new Limited Edition products

Foundation Home Loans' buy-to-let and residential brands have introduced new Limited Edition products. Buy to...

Q&A: Liz Syms, Connect for Intermediaries

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Liz Syms, CEO of Connect for Intermediaries. Mortgage Soup...

Hanley Economic mortgage balances up nearly 10%

Hanley Economic Building Society has published its annual results, with mortgage balances rising to £379.62m...

Suffolk BS extends BDM coverage

Suffolk Building Society is extending telephone business development management (BDM) support to four additional...

Advisers lose confidence in their own businesses

Adviser confidence in the prospects of the intermediary mortgage market remain stable but confidence...

COMMENT

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

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...

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Government commits to licensing property agents but detail remains unclear

The government has committed to mandatory licensing and qualifications for property agents as part...

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

SortRefer expands faster conveyancing service after pilot cuts completion times

SortRefer has rolled out its Enhanced conveyancing service to all registered brokers after a...

Octane revives specialist buy-to-let range with loans up to £15m

Octane Capital has returned to the specialist buy-to-let market with a range offering loans...

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