Mortgages

Atom bank reintroduces near-prime and prime deals

Atom bank has reintroduced a suite of near prime and prime mortgage products. Following a...

FCA wants improvements in credit information market

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposals to improve the credit information...

Twenty7tec rolls out Skipton integration

Twenty7tec has announced the integration of Skipton Building Society into the APPLY module, making...

Coventry for Intermediaries makes further fixed rate cuts 

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all standard residential two, three and five-year fixed rates...

Saffron BS reduces mortgage stress rate

Saffron Building Society has reduced the mortgage Stress Rate on its products from 3%...

L&G: demand for specialist products high “across the board”

Legal & General’s SmartrFit platform has revealed that mortgage criteria searches were dominated by...

Paradigm launches reverse advent calendar charity drive

Paradigm, the mortgage, protection and compliance services proposition, has launched its fifth annual ‘Reverse...

Brokers having difficulty managing lender updates 

New research out from Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has shown that...

David Finlay joins LiveMore Capital

David Finlay has joined LiveMore Capital as an executive consultant and member of the...

Majority of lenders expect green mortgages to remain key to product offerings

Mortgage lenders are warming to green mortgages, according to new research from Mortgage Advice...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils shared ownership range

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched its shared ownership proposition to the market, introducing a range...

MPowered Mortgages reduces residential fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has lowered its rates across its two and three-year fixed rate mortgage ranges. On...

Buckinghamshire Building Society and The Money Group join forces

The Money Group (TMG) has become the latest industry organisation to join Buckinghamshire Building...

Skipton unveils limited edition fixes rates

Skipton Building Society has announced a number of new limited-edition products are being added...

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

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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