Mortgages

LendInvest launches Mortgage Tech Meetup Series

LendInvest has launched a new Mortgage Tech Meetup event series, which will be bringing property...

Virgin Money reduces select residential and BTL rates

Virgin Money is making changes to its residential and buy-to-let range tomorrow (Friday 31...

Leeds BS unveils new 95% LTV mortgages

Leeds Building Society has added two new high loan to value (LTV) mortgages for homebuyers...

MPowered Mortgages lowers fixed rates and increases cashback

MPowered Mortgages has has further reduced rates across its two and three-year fixed products. ...

West One Loans adds finova to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced that its members will be able to...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank change Forces Help to Buy policy

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank will now accept the Forces Help to Buy loan...

Nivo offers solution to brokers struggling with Consumer Duty requirements

Nivo is looking to assist brokers and other businesses who may be struggling to...

Darlington Intermediaries joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has added Darlington Intermediaries to its lender panel. From today, Paradigm member firms will...

Five lenders piloting MBT Sandbox

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has confirmed there are five lenders who will be piloting...

Willow Private Finance appoints senior HNW mortgage broker

Willow Private Finance has announced the appointment of David Habib CeMAP as senior high...

MBT Affordability integrates with new HPP lender

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with StrideUp, a...

Central Trust improves residential lending criteria

Central Trust, the first and second charge lender, has revamped its residential mortgage range,...

BoE raises base rate to 4.25%

The Bank of England has raised interest rates by a quarter of one percentage...

Pepper Money secures £1.2bn funding lines

Pepper Money has secured new warehouse facilities, worth more than £1.2bn, to support its...

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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