Mortgages

Hanley Economic BS in self-build partnership

Hanley Economic Building Society has announced a strategic partnership with The Modern Builder (TMB),...

Alexander Hall completes quick mortgage for adverse customer

Alexander Hall has completed a mortgage with Pepper Money for a client with a...

Search begins for Sinclair’s successor at AMI

Having spent over 10 years running the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI), Robert Sinclair...

NatWest Group joins OPDA campaign

NatWest Group has joined the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to support its campaign...

Loughborough BS increases income assessment for retirement lending

Loughborough Building Society has improved its lending in retirement proposition by moving to assess...

HLPartnership secures investment from South African mortgage distributor

HLPartnership (HLP) has secured a strategic investment from BetterHome Group (BHG), the largest mortgage...

OMS appoints head of marketing & partnerships

One Mortgage System (OMS) has announced the promotion of Jodie Andrews to head of...

Significant fall in solar panel installations

The rate of solar panels installations on UK is down by 19% since last...

Atom bank to retire Digital Mortgages brand

Atom bank has launched a new broker website and brand. The bank is 'sunsetting' the...

Mansfield BS adds new fixed rates to range

Mansfield Building Society has reduced rates by up to 0.70% across its fixed rate...

MPowered Mortgages cuts three-year fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has made further cuts to its three-year fixed rate purchase and remortgage...

BuildStore Mortgage Services partners with L&C Mortgages

BuildStore Mortgage Services has entered a strategic partnership with L&C Mortgages. BuildStore is a...

Market Harborough BS cuts fixed rates and expands bridging finance

Market Harborough Building Society has reduced its residential and buy-to-let fixed rates by 0.20%,...

April Mortgages simplifies its procuration fee structure

April Mortgages has launched a new, improved proc fee structure, in response to broker...

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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