Mortgages

LiveMore rejoins mortgage market

LiveMore Capital has returned to the mortgage sector, having temporarily suspended its products due...

MagiClick to enhance Precise’s digital customer journey

MagiClick has been appointed by Precise Mortgages to create and deliver a website designed...

Market volatility makes surveys more important

Legal & General Surveying Services is urging homeowners to avoid any hidden costs during...

Skipton BS is third best big company to work for

Skipton Building Society has been named the third Best Big Company to work for...

High Court judgment on unauthorised mortgage brokers

The FCA has obtained a judgment against London Property Investments (U.K) Limited (LPI), NPI...

Loughborough BS extends criteria to include lending on flats

Loughborough Building Society has extended lending criteria across its residential, buy-to-let and shared ownership...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts fixed rates and launches trackers

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced a number of fixed rate residential products. These include two,...

Access FS reveals next academy details

Mortgage and protection broker, Access Financial Services, is about to run its next academy...

Bluestone Mortgages cuts 3 & 5-year fixed rates

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a rate reduction across its three-year and five-year fixed product...

Chartwell adopts 360 Lifecycle’s ID verification software

360 Lifecycle has recently onboarded Chartwell Mortgage Services as an early adopter of its...

Intermediaries remain confident in their own business outlook

IMLA has revealed that demand in the mortgage market has dipped slightly in Q3...

Skipton appoints telephone BDM

Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Craig Ebbrell to its...

Two thirds of house-sellers ‘demand’ a chain-free buyer

66% of the housing market is cut off from homebuyers who are in a...

LiveMore: age discrimination continues in mortgage market

Just 4% of people aged over 50 believe they would be able to take...

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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