Mortgages

Atom bank cuts Prime range rates

Atom bank has again lowered rates on its Prime mortgage range for residential customers. This...

CSS forms strategic partnership with Mortgage Intelligence

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS), the supplier of valuation panel management services, has formed a...

Acre provides new way for brokers to collect client fees

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has announced a partnership with Acre, the platform for...

FIBA to partner with MBE North

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that the specialist property finance trade body, FIBA, is...

Family BS cuts residential and BTL fixed rates

The Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of reduced price mortgage products. Two-year...

Gen H creates ‘AI-powered’ mortgage application document packaging

Gen H has announced the launch of an AI-powered packaging tool, built on Google...

Virgin Money increases its maximum mortgage term

Virgin Money has increased the maximum term for all its residential mortgages to 40...

Brokers more confident about coming year than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how intermediaries view the market in 2024 and what...

Skipton to cut residential and BTL rates

Skipton Building Society is reducing mortgage rates across its existing customer range. From 9am...

Ashley Pearson promoted at the Loughborough

Loughborough Building Society has promoted Ashley Pearson from national BDM to the newly created...

Leeds BS improves mortgage rates

Leeds Building Society has made rate reductions on selected products aimed at first-time buyers. Rate...

Purchase mortgage searches remain flat

Twenty7tec has published mortgage market statistics for November 2023. It reported that purchase mortgage searches...

Saga Mortgages launches to over-50s

Saga, the provider of products and services for people over 50, has partnered with...

Self-employed want more understanding from lenders

40% of self-employed people believe lenders need to be more understanding when it comes...

COMMENT

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

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...

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Green rent cap plan could squeeze buy-to-let affordability

Green Party proposals to restrict private rent increases for three years could make it...

Firms’ confidence in FCA rises as satisfaction hits 79%

Confidence in the Financial Conduct Authority has increased, with almost eight in 10 regulated...

Westmarq challenges surveying ‘duopoly’ as it targets lender business

Westmarq has challenged mortgage lenders to move more of their valuation business away from...

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...

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