Mortgages

Two new appointments at The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has expanded its broker support with the appointment of Rachel Glue...

Foundation Home Loans acquired by retirement savings specialist

Foundation Home Loans is to be acquired by Athene Holding Ltd, an affiliate of...

Jargon a key reason for first-time buyer confusion

52% of UK adults aged 18-34 say they have a fairly or very bad...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts rates on 80% LTV products

Newcastle Intermediaries has reviewed its 80% LTV mortgage range, including a rate reduction of...

Gatehouse Bank launches new BTL & HPP products

Gatehouse Bank has launched a new tier of buy-to-let and Home Purchase Plan (HPP)...

Knowledge Bank unveils product transfer tracker

Knowledge Bank has bolstered its criteria search system with the introduction of a product...

F4B Network adds Metro Bank to panel

The F4B Network has announced the addition of Metro Bank to its lending panel. This...

The Ipswich appoints business development manager

The Ipswich Building Society has promoted Carly Scholes to business development manager (BDM), from...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries increases LTVs

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) limits across...

Belmont Green prices second 2021 securitisation

Belmont Green Finance Limited, trading as Vida Homeloans, concluded its second Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities...

AMI survey to look at mortgage sector inclusivity

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has partnered with Aldermore and Virgin Money to take...

BuildLoan partners with the Loughborough for new self-build products

BuildLoan and Loughborough Building Society have introduced two cost-based self-build mortgage products offering a...

Borrowers finding it harder to secure required mortgage loan size

Over the last six months, fewer lenders have been able to provide the loan...

Bluestone Mortgages back in 85% LTV lending

Bluestone Mortgages is relaunching higher loan to value (LTV) limits across its residential and buy-to-let...

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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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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