Mortgages

BuildStore appoints chief operating officer

BuildStore Group has appointed Julian Foster as its new chief operating officer (COO). Foster has...

Coventry for Intermediaries unveils new 95% LTV two-year fix

Coventry for Intermediaries has added to its 95% LTV range with a new two-year...

Barclays to cut residential and BTL rates tomorrow

Barclays is making changes across its residential (including Mortgage Guarantee Scheme (MGS) and Green...

Keystone cuts rates and offers increased cashback

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates by up to 0.25 percentage points and has...

Accord Mortgages reviews residential offering

Accord Mortgages is revising its residential mortgage range this week. The intermediary-only lender is changing...

New bank to promote blood donation

The Blood Bank, a mortgage and property finance collective, has launched to promote the...

Smartr365 unveils SmartrInsight for business performance analysis

Users of Smartr365 can now analyse their business performance from the platform with the newly...

Promotion for Carruthers at Iress

Iress has promoted Steve Carruthers to the position of head of business development -...

Virgin Money cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money has made a series of reductions to its residential and buy-to-let mortgages. The...

HRMC: April residential transactions down 36%

HRMC has revealed that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions...

Criteria Hub reaches 80 lender milestone

MPowered Mortgages has become the latest lender to go live on Criteria Hub. The criteria-based...

Over-55s’ interest-only a no-go area for large minority of brokers

A recent webinar LiveMore Capital held in conjunction with Knowledge Bank looked at what types...

NatWet makes new business rate changes

NatWest is making a number of changes to its product range for new business...

SmartrCriteria sees major rise in searches for satisfied defaults

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool continued to deliver thousands of searches for...

COMMENT

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

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...

Latest news

Mortgage Lab launches AI training community for mortgage advisers

A new online community has been launched to help UK mortgage advisers use artificial...

Homeowners put renovations on hold as improvement costs outstrip savings

More than two-thirds of UK homeowners have postponed home improvements because of affordability pressures,...

Target Group appoints former Coutts executive to product role

Target Group has appointed Fiona Peel as product manager, bringing more than 20 years...

CLC warns conveyancers over Land Registry errors and growing probate risks

The Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has warned that persistent failures in post-completion work...

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