Mortgages

Confidence up despite higher rent and mortgage costs in July

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

Bluestone makes wholesale rate reductions

Bluestone Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its whole product range. Cuts have been made...

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries appoints national account manager

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has appointed David Jackson as national account manager. Jackson (pictured)...

Access FS turnover up 46%

Access Financial Services has revealed that between April 2023 and April 2024, it increased...

Gen H reduces SVR and base rate tracker

Gen H has announced wide-ranging rate cuts of between 15bps and 30bps. The rates are...

ColCap completes acquisition of Molo

ColCap Financial has acquired the remaining 20% of shares in Molo Tech. The digital...

Twenty7Tec searches up 800k year-on-year

Twenty7tec has published its mortgage market statistics for July 2024. The details are as follows: In...

MPowered Mortgages cuts rates for second time in one week

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its fixed rate range for the second time in a...

Unauthorised mortgage broker and associates ordered to pay £4m

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has secured an order of £4 million against an...

Jeff Knight unveils broker knowledge platform

A new platform for mortgage brokers - Broker Boost Initiative - has been launched. The...

The Mansfield cuts specialist mortgage rates

Mansfield Building Society has lowered the rates on its Credit Repair and Versatility mortgage...

Family BS cuts owner-occupier fixed rates

Family Building Society has launched a new range of reduced-price owner-occupier repayment and interest-only...

Unauthorised Peckham mortgage broker charged with fraud

Peterson Okoh of Peckham, London SE15, has appeared in Westminster magistrates court for allegedly...

Keystone Property Finance reduces its fixed rate range

Keystone Property Finance has lowered its entire fixed rate range by up to 25...

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

Stonebridge launches customer app to support adviser retention

Stonebridge has launched a customer-facing app for its appointed representative firms as it looks...

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...

PROFILES