Mortgages

Clydesdale Bank unveils new products and cuts fees

Clydesdale Bank has launched a series of new mortgage products. The lender has also announced...

Capita integrates WhenFresh data system into OmigaDigital mortgage platform

Capita has teamed up with WhenFresh to integrate a range of property attribute &...

Gatehouse Bank promotes within business development team

Gatehouse Bank has promoted Thomas Humphreys to the role of lead telephony business development...

Just Mortgages received 52 self-employed broker applications in Q2

National brokerage Just Mortgages says it received 52 applications from brokers to join its...

West One Loans makes three senior hires

West One Loans’ residential team has reintroduced its range of fixed rates and made...

LendInvest improves key worker support

LendInvest has announced a new range of residential mortgage products to better serve key...

76% of landlords have raised rents over past year

18% of 10 buy-to-let landlords said they would not raise rents for their tenants...

MPowered Mortgages cuts mortgage rates again

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its three-year fixed rate residential mortgage range by up to...

50% of mortgage applicants over past 12 months affected by product withdrawals

New research from Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has found that half of people who...

MBE reveals London speakers and seminar programme

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Rob Elder from the Bank of England...

Pepper Money cuts rates by up to 95bps

Pepper Money has made its largest rate reduction so far during 2023, with rates...

Virgin Money unveils new exclusive deals

Virgin Money is launching New Business fixed rate mortgage products. The lender is adding the...

117% rise in 35+ year mortgage take-up

Quilter has established that the number of people taking out mortgages with terms of...

Nottingham BS improves mortgage criteria

Nottingham Building Society has announced the latest in a series of mortgage criteria changes...

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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