Mortgages

Self-employed enquiries outpacing ones from FTBs

A survey of mortgage brokers carried out by the Family Building Society has found...

Bluestone Mortgages makes sales team appointments

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the revision of its sales team with the addition of...

Virgin Money makes positive changes to lending policy

Virgin Money has made changes to its mortgage lending policy in order to make...

Bank of England holds rates at 5.25%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to hold rates at...

Paradigm unveils new podcast

Paradigm has announced the launch of a new podcast designed to support and help...

360 Dotnet appoints strategic relationships director

Yeliz Yusuf has been appointed as 360 Dotnet’s new strategic relationships director. With almost two...

Spring Finance improves first charge mortgage offering

Specialist lender Spring Finance has announced the launch of a first charge residential remortgage...

Which? reveals rise in missed bill payments by mortgage holders

Which?’s Consumer Insight Tracker has revealed that 8.1% of mortgage holders missed payments for...

Lenders expecting household defaults to spike

20 of the country's largest lenders are expecting an additional £788 million in credit...

UTB Mortgages promotes sales trio

United Trust Bank (UTB) Mortgages for Intermediaries has announced new roles for three sales...

Paul Welch partners with talent agency to expand financial education across social media

Paul Welch, mortgage broker and founder of largemortgageloans.com and the MillionPlus Club, has been...

“Trillions” could find home in back books before July 2024

$2.6 trillion (£2.4tn) in a cash pile of investors’ money could be used to...

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has cut rates across its whole fixed rate mortgage range. Rates for...

Clydesdale announces mortgage rate rises

Clydesdale Bank has announced that it will be increasing rates across a number of...

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

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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