Mortgages

Mortgage Advice Bureau invests in The Mortgage Mum

Mortgage Advice Bureau has made a strategic investment in The Mortgage Mum, a brokerage...

McCormack to lead Barclays UK’s intermediary strategy

Barclays UK has announced the appointment of Roland McCormack as its new head of...

West One bolsters regional broker support with two key hires

West One Loans has strengthened its regional coverage with the appointment of two new...

Nationwide raises LTV ceiling on new builds to 95%

Nationwide is set to increase the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) on new build houses to...

Barclays cuts residential rates across new and existing products

Barclays has announced a series of mortgage rate reductions to take effect on Wednesday...

Five Foxes take specialist lending insights to Leeds brokers

The collaborative 'Five Foxes' group of East Midlands building societies is set to take...

Shorter mortgage fixes boom as borrower confidence returns

Borrowers are increasingly backing a brighter outlook for the mortgage market, with a marked...

Loans Warehouse and Brilliant Solutions axed from MAB specialist mortgage panel

Loans Warehouse and Brilliant Solutions were both dramatically removed from Mortgage Advice Bureau’s (MAB)...

Gen H unveils interest-only strategy to tackle affordability gap

Gen H is launching the first phase of a three-part interest-only mortgage proposition today,...

Non dom changes create £401 million stamp duty black hole

It’s exactly nine years since 52% of the country voted to leave the EU....

Gen H lowers New Build Boost rate to 5.95%

Gen H has announced a rate reduction on its New Build Boost mortgage product,...

Norton Home Loans appoints head of lending

Norton Home Loans has promoted Laura Percival to head of lending, as the lender...

Planning approvals drop despite rise in applications

England’s planning system is showing signs of growing strain as new government figures reveal...

LendInvest cuts residential rates by up to 15bps

LendInvest has announced a fresh round of rate cuts across its residential mortgage range,...

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Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

Ministerial cock-ups could kill radical property taxes

At first it might appear that the mortgage industry and the housing sector as a whole should be cross with the Labour government. After all,...

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MPC narrowly votes to hold rates at 4% as calls for a cut grow louder

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has come within a whisker of...

UTB backs £16.5m Surrey developments by Rushmon Homes

United Trust Bank (UTB) is providing £10.7m in acquisition and development finance to support...

Octopus Capital funds two new care homes

Octopus Capital has completed a £30 million forward funding agreement with Synergy Care Developments...

Hanley Economic names new chair as Nick Jordan steps down

Hanley Economic Building Society has confirmed that Ian Henley will become its new chair...

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