Mortgages

Suffolk BS improves FTB affordability with rate cuts

Suffolk Building Society is reducing the rates on its 95% LTV residential mortgages by...

Over 15m adults in UK with adverse credit

The latest Pepper Money Specialist Lending Study has stated that more than 15 million...

Cumberland BS launches new affordability calculator

Cumberland Building Society has announced the launch of its new affordability calculator, designed to...

Strengthening remortgage market should be taken advantage of

After a fairly lengthy period where the significant mode of refinancing appeared to be...

Pepper Money launches 2024 Specialist Lending Study

Pepper Money has launched its 2024 Specialist Lending Study at an invitation-only event in...

A broker’s role in reigniting the buzz of buying

Over the last few years, first time buyers (FTBs) have faced several significant obstacles...

MHBS to cut residential and let fixed rates

Market Harborough Building Society is cutting its residential and let fixed rates by up...

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries unveils new broker portal

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has released its new online broker portal, designed to...

Atom bank cuts prime & near-prime rates

Atom bank has reduced rates across both its Near Prime and Prime product ranges. Rates...

Pepper improves self-employed affordability calculations

Pepper Money has enhanced its self-employed criteria, including the introduction of the ability to...

Transaction infrastructure firm joins OPDA

Movemnt has become the latest organisation to join the Open Property Data Association (OPDA),...

Noble succeeds Mielczarek as Chetwood Financial CEO

Andy Mielczarek is stepping down as CEO of Chetwood Financial, with Paul Noble announced...

Major improvements in mortgage processing times over past two years

High street mortgage lenders have reduced their average application processing time by 30%, from...

Gen H appoints NEDs

Gen H has announced the appointments of Maria Harris and Peter Walker to its...

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...

Latest news

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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