Mortgages

Virgin Money makes slew of fixed rate reductions

Virgin Money is making a series of rate reductions to its fixed rate mortgage...

Toni Smith to lead Sesame network

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has appointed Toni Smith to the newly created role of...

A temperature check of the property market

The UK property market has shown definite signs of recovery this year, gradually overcoming...

Foundation brands announce rate cuts

The buy-to-let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has announced new rate cuts...

SimplyBiz Mortgages adds Perenna to panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of market disrupter Perenna Bank to its lender...

Norton Home Loans ups max loan size and LTV

Norton Home Loans has increased its maximum loan to value (LTV) ratio and a...

Saffron for Intermediaries cuts owner-occupied rates

Saffron for Intermediaries has announced rate reductions across its Owner Occupied range. The range also...

Coventry for intermediaries enhances application process

Coventry for intermediaries has added new functionality to its online system to make it...

Tony Ward becomes Gen H chair

Gen H has announced the appointment of Tony Ward as the new chair of...

Call for government to simplify property taxes to help FTBs

Equity release adviser Key Later Life Finance is arguing that overhauling the tax rules...

Perenna launches SVR comparison calculator

Perenna has unveiled a new Standard Variable Rate (SVR) comparison calculator to showcase the...

Skipton BS to launch 12 new 80% LTV deals

Skipton Building Society is launching 12 new 80% loan to value (LTV) residential products...

Pepper Money improves criteria for those snubbed by high street

Pepper Money has made a series of criteria improvements to make its mortgages more...

Hodge cuts 50+, RIO and Hodge Resi rates

Hodge is making further rate reductions across its 50+, RIO and Hodge Resi mortgage...

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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