Mortgages

MQube partners with Thought Machine for ‘real-time’ decisioning

MQube, the parent company of mortgage lender MPowered Mortgages, has partnered with Thought Machine,...

Foundation Home Loans reduces buy-to-let and owner-occupier rates

Foundation Home Loans has announced rate reductions of up to 0.75% on selected buy-to-let...

West One launches new ‘Platinum’ residential range

West One Loans has launched a new range of residential mortgages with rates up...

Central Trust unveils one-year fixed rate product

Central Trust has added a new one-year residential fixed rate option to its product...

Just Mortgages appoints sales manager

National brokerage Just Mortgages has appointed Andy Cuthbert to the role of sales manager...

Q&A: Tom Denman-Molloy, intermediary sales manager, Mansfield Building Society

BestAdvice fires the questions at Tom Denman-Molloy, intermediary sales manager at Mansfield Building Society BestAdvice...

Smartr365 tool to aid Legal & General Mortgage Club procuration fee payments

Smartr365 has announced the launch of a tool to automatically sync procuration fee claim...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts selected residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced its complete FTB Only range at 90-95% LTV. In addition,...

Support for low deposit schemes vital after Help to Buy

National brokerage Just Mortgages has said that the sector must continue to get behind...

Leeds BS unveils new two-year fixes

Leeds Building Society is revamping its range of two-year fixed rate mortgages, including a...

Brokers see criteria as most important factor in lender selection

Clear and concise criteria are the most important factors for brokers in choosing a...

AMI to challenge FCA’s hike in mortgage intermediary fees

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has declared the FCA's fees consultation for mortgage...

Pepper Money relaunches Pepper 48

Pepper Money has relaunched its Pepper 48 range, which includes a new limited edition...

New HQ and focus for Our Mortgage Broker

Our Mortgage Broker has relocated its headquarters. It is now based at 23 Berkeley Square...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

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...

Latest news

Net zero rules targeted in housebuilding shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged to strip as much as £50,000 from the cost of...

Tories put stamp duty abolition at heart of housing shake-up

The Conservatives have pledged again to scrap stamp duty as part of a housing...

Target Group adds Carla Stent to board

Target Group has appointed Carla Stent as a non-executive director, adding further financial services,...

Later life lending summit to focus on changing advice needs

Mortgage advisers will be encouraged to consider how longer borrowing lives and increasingly complex...

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