Mortgages

Skipton BS to cut fixed and tracker rates

Skipton Building Society is cutting mortgages rates on Wednesday 1 May. The reductions will affect...

Hinckley & Rugby BS cuts mortgage rates

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has refreshed its product range as it seeks...

Major regional differences in housing market for FTBs

There are stark regional differences in conditions for first-time buyers, according to Coventry for...

Sesame Bankhall Group partners with Perenna Bank

Perenna Bank has joined the lender panels of Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club,...

Just Mortgages trainer writes second children’s charity book

Greg Smith, senior trainer for the employed division at Just Mortgages, has written a...

HRBS unveils 95% LTV ‘income booster’ mortgage

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched income booster mortgage at 95% loan to...

Scottish Building Society now live on Iress’ MSO

Iress has announced that Scottish Building Society is now live with its MSO software....

Suffolk Building Society appoints new BDM

Suffolk Building Society has appointed Beth Hillman as business development manager (BDM) for central...

Kensington launches ‘Mid LTV’ residential range

Kensington Mortgages has announced the launch of its ‘Mid LTV’ product range for residential...

Gen H introduces new foreign national policy

Gen H has made changes to its foreign national policy. The mortgage provider will now...

LendInvest Mortgages cuts rates by up to 25bps

LendInvest Mortgages has cut rates across its residential mortgage offering. The range has rates...

Hanley Economic BS adds fee-free residential and RIO offerings

Hanley Economic Building Society has introduced a fee-free two-year tracker and fee-free two-year fixed...

Paul Brett to relaunch Brightstar’s Private Label proposition

Paul Brett is working with the Brightstar Group to relaunch its Private Label lending...

OSB Group inks new four-year deal with finova

Finova, the cloud-based mortgage and savings software provider, has announced that specialist lender OSB...

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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Monicio targets mortgage admin burden with AI-powered CRM

Mortgage technology provider Monicio has launched an AI-powered CRM designed to automate administrative work...

HSBC eases new-build part-exchange criteria

HSBC has changed its residential lending criteria for new-build buyers who part exchange their...

Plannr integrates Mortgage Brain tools into adviser workflow

Plannr has partnered with Mortgage Brain to connect mortgage sourcing and lender submissions with...

Barclays hikes mortgage rates for second time in a week

Barclays is increasing fixed mortgage rates for the second time this week as rising...

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