Mortgages

Sedgwick succeeds Rowntree as Paragon’s mortgages MD

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as managing director of its...

Precise launches mobile app with MagiClick

Precise, part of OSB Group, has launched a mobile app for brokers, following months...

West One joins L&C’s residential and BTL panels

West One Loans has been added to London & Country Mortgages’ (L&C) panel of...

Perenna offers retrofitting discount

Perenna has launched a retrofit discount, a new product feature designed to incentivise homeowners...

Leeds BS announces rate reductions of up to 30bps

Leeds Building Society has announced reductions to selected fixed rate products. Rates have been reduced...

LiveMore cuts rates by up to 106bps

LiveMore has made widespread rate reductions across its range of products, with cuts of...

Virgin Money makes large number of fixed rate mortgage cuts

Virgin Money is making a series of changes to its fixed mortgage rates on...

April Mortgages makes positive capital-raising changes

April Mortgages has improved its capital-raising criteria to help prospective first-time buyers. Borrowers will be...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils 3.90% fix and other rate cuts

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a new five-year fixed rate at 3.90% and reduced...

Intermediaries recover their positivity about the future

Intermediary confidence in the outlook for the mortgage industry has now recovered to its...

Twenty7tec sees affordability sourcing rise following SOURCE update

Twenty7tec has revealed that it has seen an increase in the usage of its...

Foundation Home Loans appoints chief treasury officer

Foundation Home Loans has announced the recruitment of Matt Blake as chief treasury officer...

April Mortgages unveils interest rate cuts

April Mortgages has reduced the interest rates on its range of 5-15 year fixed...

Confidence up despite higher rent and mortgage costs in July

Rising mortgage costs were offset by falling energy bills in July, while the Bank...

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

House price growth slows to 0.8% as market loses momentum

Annual UK house price growth slowed sharply in September, while prices also edged lower...

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...

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