Mortgages

Q&A: Maeve Ward, Central Trust/Mercantile Trust

BestAdvice fires the questions at Maeve Ward, director of commercial operations at Central Trust...

Skipton to leave SVR/MVR unchanged despite BoE rate rise

Skipton Building Society will not pass on yesterday's Bank of England Bank Rate increase...

Hodge and Accord to co-host first Power of 8 live event

Hodge is to co-host the first live Power of 8 (PO8) event for 2022...

The Nottingham moves towards soft footprints

The Nottingham has announced that people applying for mortgages will no longer have a...

Inflation expectations cause MPC to raise bank rate

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted by a majority of...

Your Mortgage Decisions to certify all new mortgage leads

Your Mortgage Decisions has appointed Contact State to certify all its mortgage leads and...

Brokers reveal most problematic mortgage applications

Research by broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, has found that mortgage applications for self-employed clients and...

Hinckley & Rugby CEO locked up for Comic Relief

On Wednesday 16 March, Hinckley & Rugby Building Society’s CEO, Colin Fyfe, will be...

Newcastle Intermediaries integrates affordability criteria with Twenty7Tec

Newcastle Intermediaries has integrated its affordability criteria with the Twenty7Tec SOURCE module. The extended functionality...

Skipton to allow borrowers to house Ukrainian refugees

Skipton Building Society says it will do "everything it can" to help any of...

LiveMore moves into Scottish market

LiveMore, the specialist over-50s mortgage lender, is to offer its interest-only products in Scotland. The...

Research examines how affordability research used in advice process

89% of 10 brokers say they have recommended a lender that they did not...

Vernon BS joins Paradigm lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Vernon Building Society to its lender panel launching to...

The Buckinghamshire unveils new five-year remortgage fix

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched a new, limited time five-year fixed rate remortgage product. Borrowers...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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TRM launches tool to help advisers assess clients’ financial shortfalls

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced a Shortfall Needs Analysis Calculator designed...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

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