Mortgages

Vida raises over £20k for Crisis at Christmas

Vida has raised over £20,000 as part of a Christmas campaign for its charity...

Remortgage activity fuelled by “inevitable” rate rise

The average monthly payment decrease for those who remortgaged in November was £193.39, according to latest...

The Nottingham cuts higher LTV rates

The Nottingham has announced rate reductions of up to 70bps across its residential range. Its...

Mansfield Building Society appoints intermediary sales manager

Mansfield Building Society has appointed Tom Molloy as its intermediary sales manager following the...

Phoebus agrees servicing contract with Lendco

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) and Lendco have agreed a four-year contract which will see...

Legal & General Mortgage Club adds Generation Home to panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has expanded its proposition with the addition of Generation...

Homeowners in favour of reduced mortgage costs based on energy performance

67% of all homeowners, or those who want to become homeowners, would consider a...

Increase in JBSP broker mortgage searches

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity index has found that brokers in the residential market were...

UTB ups max residential first charge mortgage to £1m

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased its maximum first charge residential mortgage size to...

43% would opt for green mortgage despite increased cost

Mortgage brokers are seeing increasing numbers of consumers looking for green mortgages, according to...

November data shows continuation of sellers’ market

NAEA Propertymark has published its November Housing Report, which revealed that the average number...

November transactional activity remained high

The latest UK monthly property transactions data from HMRC has revealed that the provisional...

Platform cuts rates and ups SVR

Platform has made interest rate reductions to a number of its mortgage products, with...

Self-employed struggle to access financial products

Research from the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed (IPSE) and specialist mortgage...

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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