Mortgages

Bluestone cuts fixed and Deposit Unlock rates

Bluestone Mortgages has issued further rate cuts across its two and five-year fixed rate...

Loughborough BS improves self-employed criteria

Loughborough Building Society has revised its self-employed criteria so it can now accept one...

Tandem Bank launches new first charge offering

Tandem Bank has introduced a refreshed first charge mortgage range. It says its most...

Peter Beaumont to step down as TML’s CEO

Peter Beaumont has announced his decision to step down as CEO of The Mortgage...

E.surv becomes Darlington BS’s new lead valuation partner

E.surv Chartered Surveyors, the surveying business of the LSL Property Services Group, has entered...

Mortgage Brain partners with Leeds Building Society

Mortgage Brain has announced a partnership with Leeds Building Society. This collaboration introduces a fully...

Hanley Economic BS updates shared ownership offering

Hanley Economic Building Society has revised its shared ownership product range through the introduction...

New website tool from Pepper Money

Pepper Money has introduced a new website tool, designed to make it simpler for...

April Mortgages unveils 5-15 year fixed rate mortgages

April Mortgages has launched a fixed-rate remortgage product with HLP and Stonebridge. Rates start at...

Newcastle Intermediaries reduces self-employed rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut rates by up to 15 basis points (bps) across its...

Penrith BS joins TMA Mortgage Club panel

TMA Mortgage Club has added Penrith Building Society to its lending panel. The mutual offers...

Perenna cuts flexible long-term fixed rate pricing

Perenna has reduced pricing on its flexible long-term fixed rate mortgage range by up...

Leeds BS reduces rates on 27 mortgage products

Leeds Building Society has reduced interest rates on products across its mortgage range. Reductions of...

OMS hires Kevin Blount as head of operations

One Mortgage System (OMS) has appointed Kevin Blount as its head of operations. Blount (pictured)...

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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Advice firms step up technology use as integration remains key obstacle

Financial advice firms are taking a more proactive approach to technology, but integrating new...

Check launches mortgage readiness tool for prospective borrowers

Check.co.uk has added a mortgage readiness feature to its app, bringing together credit, affordability,...

Yorkshire BS team raises £1,000 with 198km treadmill challenge

Seven Yorkshire Building Society colleagues have completed a 198km treadmill ultramarathon to raise money...

The Monmouthshire expands mortgage platform pilot to more intermediaries

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

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