Mortgages

Gen H cuts rates by up to 25bps

Gen H has announced mortgage rate cuts of up to 25 basis points (bps). The...

Just Mortgages recruits new area director

Just Mortgages has expanded its self-employed management team with the appointment of James Hoskins...

Enness Global revamps private client adviser offering

Enness Global, the international mortgage broker which serves high-net-worth individuals, has announced the refresh...

Pepper Money backs Broker Boost Initiative

Pepper Money is the latest organisation to sign up to support the new Broker...

Suffolk BS further expands lending criteria

Suffolk Building Society has announced further changes to its lending criteria to provide greater...

TRM launches online Mortgage Coffee Morning

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has new services for adviser firm members, including...

MAB becomes first intermediary network member of OPDA

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has become the first major mortgage intermediary to join the...

HNWs want to use non-salaried income to buy property

Investec Bank has outlined brokers' concerns and requirements when sourcing mortgage solutions for high-net-worth...

Dudley BS unveils new five-year fixed rates

Dudley Building Society has announced the launch of a range of new five-year fixed-rate...

Bluestone Mortgages cuts standard and purchase fee-free rates

Bluestone Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its standard and purchase fee-free product ranges. The...

Beverley Building Society outlines offering for non-UK nationals

Beverley Building Society is now serving non-UK nationals with its new mortgage proposition. The lender...

Suffolk BS to allow multi-currency applications

Suffolk Building Society will now accept multi-currency applications for residential, buy-to-let and holiday let...

New Precise limited edition range removes upfront mortgage costs

Precise has launched a five-year fixed limited edition residential range with valuation and assessment...

Hanley Economic BS expands shared ownership offering

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a fee-free two-year fixed rate shared ownership mortgage. ...

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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