Mortgages

Atom cuts all Prime and Near Prime rates

Atom bank has cut rates across its mortgage products by up to 0.15 percentage...

Customer service – from the broker’s point of view

Excellent customer service is the lifeblood of the mortgage and client relationship, but from...

Lenders need to look beyond the norm

When you see statistics which suggest the number of mortgage products available in today’s...

Newcastle Intermediaries expands shared ownership offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates across its 95% LTV shared ownership proposition and introduced...

Hodge cuts 50+ and RIO rates

Hodge is making another set of rate reductions across its range of 50+ and...

TML restructures residential product proposition

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has restructured its residential products and criteria in a move...

Q3 promises to be strongest intermediary lending quarter of 2023

The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) reveals...

New head of mortgage sales at Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has announced the appointment of its new head...

FTBs turning to friends and family rather than brokers for advice

First-time buyers aged 18 to 34, are primarily relying on advice from family and...

Legal & General Ignite integrates with Smartr365

Legal & General Mortgage Services has announced that its mortgage research and product sourcing...

MPowered Mortgages launches free legals and free valuations for remortgagers

MPowered Mortgages has launched a range of Remortgage Legal Assistance products which cover standard...

Kensington unveils improved large loan proposition

Kensington Mortgages has launched its enhanced large loan offering, designed to help provide customers...

Perenna unveils 40-year 95% LTV FTB mortgage

Perenna has opened up its flexible long-term fixed rate product, known as the Perenna...

LendInvest Mortgages provides offer in four days for Key Worker FTB

LendInvest Mortgages has delivered a mortgage offer in four days for a Key Worker...

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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