Mortgages

Tapping into the specialist lending market

Demand for specialist mortgages has risen significantly over the last few years as a...

OneFamily appoints underwriting operations manager

The OneFamily Group has appointed Colette Ward as its new operations manager within its...

Q&A: Laura Sneddon, Hinckley & Rugby Building Society

BestAdvice fires the questions at Laura Sneddon, head of mortgage sales and distribution, Hinckley...

IPTF and MIMHC agree partnership

The Income Protection Task Force (IPTF) and the Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC)...

Just Mortgages sees strong demand to join self-employed division

Just Mortgages received 50 applications to join its self-employed division in Q2. This latest cohort...

Mortgage Vision 2024 reveals keynote speakers

Mortgage Brain has confirmed the full list of industry speakers and panellists for its...

Mansfield BS appoints BDM for the south

Mansfield Building Society has appointed Claire Flanagan as its new business development manager (BDM)...

April Mortgages completes rollout with SPF Private Clients

April Mortgages has rolled out its range of longer-term fixed rate mortgages to all...

Remortgaging landlords still favouring five-year fixed rates

Latest data from Landbay reveals that buy-to-let landlords are continuing to opt for the...

Molo Finance appoints senior BDM

Molo Finance has announced the recruitment of John Smith as its newest senior business...

MPowered Mortgages reduces fixed rates once again

MPowered Mortgages has cut fixed rate mortgages by up to 22 basis points (bps)....

Atom bank increases LTIs and LTVs

Atom bank has made improvements to its maximum loan to income (LTI) ratio and...

OMS reports record-breaking July

OMS has revealed that July was a record month for both applications and completions...

HSBC UK becomes latest lender to join OPDA

HSBC UK has become a member of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA) to...

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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