Mortgages

Pepper Money hires new national sales manager

Pepper Money has bolstered its sales team with the recruitment of Dianne Corner into...

Coventry for intermediaries launches 65% LTV deals

Coventry for Intermediaries has updated its residential product range with two, three and five-year...

Molo Finance partners with Brilliant Solutions

Molo Finance has partnered with Brilliant Solutions to provide the distributor's directly authorised (DA)...

Vida introduces new fixed rate products

Vida has launched a range of residential and buy-to-let fixed rate products following on...

West One Loans unveils five-year fixed rate range

West One Loans has launched a range of new residential five-year fixed rates starting...

The Mortgage Lender makes leadership team appointments

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has bolstered its leadership team with the appointment of Neil...

Brightstar to hold free broker webinars

Brightstar Financial has introduced a series of free webinars to provide brokers with the...

Adverse credit dominates Primis’ Q3 broker queries

Primis Mortgage Network has revealed that the network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

Skipton tailors new mortgages to first-time buyers

Skipton Building Society is launching a suite of new mortgage products tomorrow (25 October). ...

Consistency remains in mortgage searches

Mortgage criteria searches remained consistent from August to September, according to results from Legal...

Bevan Money completes banking pre-application stage

Bevan Money, which is aiming to become a bank with a focus on providing...

Newcastle Intermediaries returns with new customer mortgage range

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched a new range of mortgage products designed to support customers...

Mortgage discounts key to energy efficiency upgrades

Green mortgage discounts could be a key tool in helping landlords make the energy...

Paragon launches discounted SVR deals

Paragon Bank has introduced four discounted standard variable rate (SVR) buy-to-let mortgages. The...

COMMENT

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

Slow completions are costing brokers. Five steps can help protect their pipelines

Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has...

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...

Latest news

Wider mortgage options put borrower circumstances in focus on Lenders Live

Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but...

Christodoulides joins ConveyBuddy as head of distribution

Former NatWest national account manager Luke Christodoulides has joined ConveyBuddy as head of distribution. Christodoulides...

MorganAsh adds BSL translation to customer websites

MorganAsh has introduced British Sign Language translations across its corporate website and itswhoiam.me consumer...

London flat owners face highest risk of resale losses

Nearly four in 10 London flats resold after being held for between five and...

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