Mortgages

Mortgage broker banned and fined £25k

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

Virgin Money unveils new remortgage exclusives

Virgin Money has launched a new range of remortgage exclusive products as well as...

The Mansfield opens up shared ownership to all brokers

The Mansfield Building Society has widened the distribution of its shared ownership mortgage offer...

Kensington introduces new credit recovery range

Kensington Mortgages made made a series of changes across its residential and buy-to-let range. Revisions include...

Precise Mortgages appoints London BDM

Precise Mortgages has announced the appointment of Amanda Lammers as its new business development...

Gateway Surveyors partners with remote valuation provider

Gateway Surveyors has agreed a partnership with CoreLogic U.K. and will be the first...

Smartr365 reaches user milestone

Smartr365 has added its 2,000th user following growth of more than 700% in the last...

New ‘Best Buy’ fixed rates from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has launched new fixed rate mortgages today. The Society’s two year...

Pepper cuts number of residential and buy-to-let rates

Pepper Money has increased the maximum LTV on its Pepper 60 buy-to-let range. The specialist lender...

Newcastle Building Society introduces First Homes mortgages

The  Newcastle Building Society has launched a range of 95% LTV mortgages available under...

Pepper completes £425m securitisation

Pepper Money has closed its largest securitisation to date. The £425m securitisation, which is...

SimplyBiz Mortgages unveils second ‘Summer of Learning’

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the return of its ‘Summer of Learning’ for 2021. The month-long...

Accord sees improvements from buy-to-let platform

Accord Mortgages has claimed that its new buy-to-let platform has already reaped benefits for...

The Ipswich partners with PRIMIS

The Ipswich Building Society has agreed a new partnership with PRIMIS Mortgage Network. The agreement...

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...

Latest news

SPF Private Clients signs AI technology agreement with LendWell

SPF Private Clients has agreed a multi-year partnership with Irish mortgage technology firm LendWell...

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...

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