Mortgages

Suffolk BS unveils new 95% LTV fixes 

Suffolk Building Society has launched two new fixed rate products available up to 95%...

Remortgage growth threatened by tightening of affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has warned that tightening mortgage affordability could threaten the growth...

Free mortgage market sustainability webinar next week

The Mortgage Marketing Forum (MMF) has unveiled a Sustainability Webinar for its members and...

Vida to strengthen key partner relationships

Vida says it is to improve its sales proposition by moving to a focussed...

IMLA: good lender-broker relationships essential

The vast majority of lenders see advisers’ work as essential to helping non-standard borrowers,...

Just Mortgages appoints development directors

National broker firm, Just Mortgages, has appointed three new development directors. The trio will work...

Clydesdale Bank improves new build criteria

Clydesdale Bank has made changes to its mortgage lending policy. The bank will now accept...

Clydesdale Bank unveils residential and BTL mortgage changes

Clydesdale Bank has made changes to its mortgage range. It has replaced its current 75%-90% LTV...

Suffolk BS reports 8% mortgage book growth

Suffolk Building Society has reported its results for the year ending 30 November 2021. Over...

Steve Griffiths joins TML board

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has appointed Steve Griffiths, its sales and product director, to...

Positive Lending to host specialist lending roadshow

Positive Lending has launched a series of roundtable events for its Spring Specialist Lending...

​​Atom bank unveils exclusive rates with Sesame

Atom bank has introduced two-year fixed rate near prime product exclusives for Sesame Network's...

Record month for PRIMIS product desk

PRIMIS Mortgage Network's product desk helped appointed representative (AR) advisers with 2,491 queries in...

Fleet’s Bob Young announces retirement

Fleet Mortgages' CEO, Bob Young, is to retire in April after a career in...

COMMENT

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

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....

Latest news

Goldman Sachs discloses 3.15% stake in Secure Trust Bank

Goldman Sachs has reported a 3.15% voting interest in Secure Trust Bank following a...

Market Harborough launches rental scheme offering deposit contributions to first-time buyers

Market Harborough Building Society is offering aspiring homeowners the chance to recover 60% of...

Tipton adds discounted rates for expat and limited company landlords

Tipton & Coseley Building Society has expanded its variable rate buy-to-let mortgage range with...

WIS Mortgages sets out five-year adviser growth strategy

WIS Mortgages has announced a five-year growth plan centred on expanding its adviser community...

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