Mortgages

United Trust Bank Mortgages creates new director role

United Trust Bank Mortgages has announced that Barry Luhmann has been appointed to the...

Buckinghamshire BS cuts prime and impaired credit rates

Buckinghamshire Building Society has repriced its product offering, with rate reductions of up to...

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries improves criteria

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has made changes to its Income Flex product criteria,...

Barclays cuts rates and unveils new products

Barclays is launching a range of new products designed to appeal to first-time buyers...

Residential by Foundation launches Limited Edition remortgage fixes

Residential by Foundation has announced the launch of new Limited Edition, Remortgage Only, Fee-assisted...

Gen H updates policy for utilities and communications defaults

Gen H has announced updates to how it treats missed utilities and communications payments...

West One Loans hires two new BDMs

West One Loans has expanded its business development manager (BDM) team with two new...

Saffron BS cuts rates and adds new contractor and self-employed options

Saffron for Intermediaries has made rate reductions across its complete product range and also...

MPowered Mortgages cuts three-year fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its three-year fixed rate range available to new borrowers. Its lowest...

Smart Money People launches vulnerability survey

24 lenders, mortgage clubs, networks, and industry bodies have collaborated with Smart Money People...

Nationwide acquires Virgin Money

Nationwide Building Society has completed its acquisition of Virgin Money. Together, the organisations will be...

Suffolk BS to pay retention proc fees

Suffolk Building Society is to pay retention proc fees for brokers acting on product...

TFC Homeloans becomes All Money Matters

TFC Homeloans has announced that it has rebranded to become All Money Matters. The...

Perenna cuts purchase, remortgage and RIO rates

Perenna has reduced rates across its purchase, remortgage and retirement interest-only (RIO) products. RIO...

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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