Mortgages

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...

HTB appoints London BDM

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has bolstered its business development manager (BDM) team with the...

New fixed rates from Virgin Money

Virgin Money is introducing new mortgage products on Wednesday 24 April. Details are as follows: Product...

Nottingham BS appoints head of underwriting

Nottingham Building Society has announced the appointment of Maxine Davenport to its leadership team,...

Majority of brokers expect fall in adviser numbers next year

The total number of mortgage advisers in the UK may fall in as 2025...

24% fall in annual Stamp Duty receipts

Homebuyers paid out £11.6bn in Stamp Duty Land Tax in the 2023-24 tax year,...

Twenty7tec updates SOURCE to support more complex customer needs

Twenty7tec has announced a new update to its affordability solution in SOURCE, designed to...

CSF sees record growth in first three months of 2024

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has recorded its best start to a year as it...

Dudley BS cuts mortgage rates by up to 0.35%

Dudley Building Society has reduced rates on a selection of its fixed and discounted...

Fall in ‘interest-only’ searches in March

Legal & General Ignite data has shown that UK mortgage market activity remained robust...

Family BS automates mortgage illustration process

The Family Building Society has announced that its illustration request process has been fully...

Purchase market improvement could make all the difference in 2024

Slowly but surely, the clouds do appear to be breaking up when it comes...

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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The Monmouthshire expands mortgage platform pilot to more intermediaries

Monmouthshire Building Society has widened the intermediary pilot of its new mortgage origination platform,...

The Cambridge adds 98% LTV five-year fix for first-time buyers

Cambridge Building Society has widened access to its First Step range with a 98%...

Monicio targets mortgage admin burden with AI-powered CRM

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

Foundation colleagues take on Snowdon challenge for Centrepoint

Foundation and Catalyst colleagues have climbed Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) as part of a fundraising...

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