Mortgages

Virgin Money allows for electronic signatures

Virgin Money will now accept electronic signatures on residential and buy-to-let mortgage declarations. The lender...

The Leeds launches green mortgage range

The Leeds Building Society has unveiled two new cashback mortgages for the most energy...

JLM AR firm launches hard of hearing and deaf advice campaign

JLM Mortgage Services has announced the launch of a campaign by its appointed representative...

The Mortgage Lender now on MBT Affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has added The Mortgage Lender (TML) to its MBT Affordability...

Covid hitting self-employed incomes the hardest

85% of self-employed people across the country say their income hasn’t yet returned to...

Newcastle Intermediaries rejoins large loan market

Newcastle Intermediaries has re-entered the large loan market with a new offering and products...

New two and five-year fixes from Platform

Platform has introduced a new range of five-year fixed rate mortgages for borrowers looking...

PRIMIS reveals monthly broker support stats

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has revealed that its product desk supported Appointed Representative (AR) advisers...

Accord cuts mortgage rates and extends end dates

Accord Mortgages has withdrawn its current product range and will replace it at 9am...

Virgin Money & Clydesdale Bank improve lending to contractors

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank has made changes regards to lending to contractors. IR35 changes...

NatWest offers preferential rate on new green mortgage deal

NatWest Group has launched a new ‘green remortgage’ product. The new product will offer a...

L&G Mortgage Club offers exclusives with the Dudley

Legal & General Mortgage Club is offering advisers access to an exclusive five-year fixed-rate...

Hampshire Trust Bank joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) to its lender panel. Paradigm member...

Mortgage broker banned and fined £25k

Markos Markou, director and chief executive of a mortgage broker firm, Financial Solutions (Euro)...

COMMENT

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

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...

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Leek BS cuts 95% LTV mortgage rates by up to 0.64 percentage points

Leek Building Society is reducing rates across its 95% loan-to-value (LTV) residential mortgage range...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the...

Barclays widens affordability criteria for company directors

Barclays has widened its mortgage affordability criteria for limited company directors by expanding the...

Just 16% of full-time workers have income protection

Only 16% of full-time workers have income protection - highlighting a significant protection gap...

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