Mortgages

MPowered Mortgages lowers 5-year fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has reduced rates across its suite of five-year fixed products, and announced...

My Legal Club adds Holden Smith Law to Express Remortgage service

My Legal Club has extended its Express Remortgage service for mortgage brokers with the...

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services adds StrideUp to panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has partnered with home finance provider, StrideUp, extending the...

Smartr365 “covers more than half of UK mortgage market by volume”

Smartr365 has announced that, through its lender partnerships, it now covers more than half...

UK Finance expects 15% fall in mortgage lending in 2023

UK Finance has published its mortgage market forecast for 2023–2024, anticipating a softening in...

Skipton unveils three new green mortgage products

Skipton Building Society is introducing three new additional green borrowing mortgages to its range. This...

Tandem Bank unveils remortgage product range

Tandem Bank has launched a remortgage portfolio of products, exclusively through the intermediary sector. The...

LiveMore expands BDM team

LiveMore has welcomed three new business development managers (BDMs) to its sales team. Darren Cunliffe...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts product transfer rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has improved its product transfer offering for existing customers with reduced rates. The...

Can pricing continue to track down?

As we motor towards the end of the year, it’s important to reflect on...

FCA outlines how mortgage firms should be supporting borrowers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out ways that mortgage firms can help...

Half of new FTB mortgages have terms over 30 years

Half of all first-time buyers in the UK, and over a quarter of home...

MPowered Mortgages revamps fixed rate offering

MPowered Mortgages has lowered rates across its two and three-year fixed ranges, and introduced...

Vida reduces residential and BTL rates

Vida has reduced rates across its residential and buy-to-let ranges by up to 1.35...

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...

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Ireland boosts Help to Buy as UK prepares new first-time buyer scheme

Ireland has increased the maximum support available to first-time buyers under its Help to...

Reeves ranked least successful of five recent chancellors in poll

Rachel Reeves has been rated the least successful of the past five chancellors in...

Teachers for Intermediaries raises new-build LTV limit to 95%

Teachers for Intermediaries has increased its maximum LTV on new-build houses and flats to...

Cambridge BS opens applications for deposit-building Rent to Home scheme

The Cambridge Building Society has opened applications for its Rent to Home property in...

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