Mortgages

Pre-Covid rise in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has reported that the number of mortgages approved in the...

Aldermore to cut variable rates

Aldermore will be decreasing variable mortgage rates by 0.65% following the Bank of England’s...

Covid-19: the Mansfield tightens criteria

The Mansfield Building Society has become the latest lender to take steps to tighten...

Phoebus self-service portal aims to ease call centre pressure

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has launched a new digital self-service portal that allows lender’s...

The Coventry pulls all mortgage products above 65% LTV

The Coventry Building Society has made the decision to temporarily withdraw all residential, buy-to-let...

Robert Sinclair: “I fear for non-bank lenders”

The chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned that the coronavirus...

Paradigm provides crisis support page

Paradigm Mortgage Services has launched a new Coronavirus support page for advisers which includes information...

CRM system offered free to all UK brokers

Members of the Financial Services Tech Task Force initiative have joined forces to fund...

Smartr365 and Digidentity to provide digital identity service for remortgaging

Smartr365 and Digidentity have announced that brokers who use Smartr365 will be able to...

The Leeds extends mortgage offers

Mortgage offers from the Leeds Building Society are being extended by three months to...

The Coventry changes valuation policy

The Coventry Building Society is making changes to its LTV limits due to surveyors putting...

Halifax pulls all deals over 60% LTV

Leading mortgage lender Halifax has responded to the coronavirus crisis by withdrawing all mortgages...

Covid-19: buy-to-let market “going into reverse”

Property Master believes that landlords will struggle to get mortgages as the impact of...

TMA adds LendInvest to panel

TMA has announced the addition of property finance platform, LendInvest, to its lending panel. TMA...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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TRM launches tool to help advisers assess clients’ financial shortfalls

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced a Shortfall Needs Analysis Calculator designed...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

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