Mortgages

Quarterly property transaction completions down 42% compared to 2019 high

Landmark’s Residential Property Trends report for the third quarter of 2024 has revealed that...

Leeds BS appoints national intermediary development manager

Andy Alvarez has joined Leeds Building Society as national intermediary development manager. He is tasked...

Buckinghamshire BS reprices FTB, BTL and holiday let mortgages

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced a widespread product repricing, with rate reductions of up...

Borrowers seeking security from five-year fixes

A survey from the Family Building Society has found that intermediaries have seen a...

Mortgage Metrics partners with Sesame Bankhall Group

Mortgage Metrics has announced a new partnership with Sesame Bankhall Group. PMS Mortgage Club members...

Lloyds Banking Group signs mental health charter

Lloyds Banking Group, through its Halifax Intermediaries, Birmingham Midshires and Scottish Widows Bank brands,...

Paragon Bank makes senior sales promotions

Paragon Bank has promoted four key members of its mortgages sales team to newly-created...

TSB fined £10.9m over treatment of customers in arrears

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined TSB Bank £10,910,500 for failing to ensure...

Foundation Home Loans appoints head of sales

Foundation Home Loans has announced the promotion of Nathan Goodridge to head of sales. Goodridge...

ModaMortgages announces controlled launch with select partners

ModaMortgages has announced its controlled launch with a select number of specialist distributors and...

Hinckley & Rugby introduces specialist fixed rates

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has unveiled its first fixed-rate mortgage products within its...

Many homeowners remain reluctant to remortgage online

Finova has published the latest findings from its report Homeownership In The Digital Age. According...

HLPartnership appoints regional sales manager

HLPartnership (HLP) has announced the appointment of Preeti Ferrier as regional sales manager for...

Suffolk Building Society now accepts JBSP applications

Suffolk Building Society is welcoming joint borrower sole proprietor (JBSP) applications across residential, buy-to-let,...

COMMENT

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

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...

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Barclays urges policy action to unlock home energy efficiency upgrades

High energy costs are increasing demand for more efficient homes, but the cost of...

Brilliant Solutions joins Equity Release Council as later life market broadens

Brilliant Solutions has joined the Equity Release Council as the mortgage club and specialist...

Former LMS chief Nick Chadbourne takes chair role at Novus Strategy

Nick Chadbourne, the former chief executive of LMS, has joined mortgage and homebuying consultancy...

Vernon appoints Anthony Murphy to board and audit role

Vernon Building Society has appointed former Nottingham Building Society finance chief Anthony Murphy as...

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