Mortgages

Buckinghamshire Building Society expands mortgage distribution

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has joined Dynamo for Intermediaries' panel of lenders. The mutual employs...

Growth in appetite for adverse credit mortgage advice

Two-thirds (66%) of people with adverse credit who intend to buy a property in...

Large interest in Just Mortgages’ broker academy

Just Mortgages has receives 750 applicants for its forthcoming Broker Academy. The firm is holding...

New rate reductions from the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is reducing rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on a...

170,000 accounts to mature in December

Analysis by the Leeds Building Society has indicated that residential borrowers with mortgages maturing...

Residential transactions up 10% month-on-month

HMRC has issues its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of transactions in October 2020. Its estimate...

TMA Club issues last call for virtual ELEVATE conference

TMA Club is calling on advisers to register for its 2020 ELEVATE conference as...

Pepper Money to provide single point of contact for cases

Specialist lender Pepper Money has revised its service proposition with the introduction of case...

Shawbrook grows sales desk team

Shawbrook Bank has expanded its property finance division's sales desk with the appointment of...

First climate-focused ground risk assessment launches

Ground risk assessment specialist, Terrafirma, is now offering the National Ground Risk Model (NGRM):...

Customers embrace Swansea Online

The Swansea Building Society has reported that its new digital savings and mortgage service...

Bluestone restarts 85% LTV lending

Bluestone Mortgages has resumed pre-Covid maximum loan to value (LTV) lending on all products...

Landbay is top ranked mortgage lender in Deloitte UK Fast 50

Landbay has been placed at number six in the Deloitte UK Fast 50. Landbay...

NatWest to bring back free valuations on purchases

NatWest is making rate reductions buy-to-let range and reintroducing free valuations for intermediary purchase...

COMMENT

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

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...

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TMG Mortgage Network strengthens finance team with senior appointment

TMG Mortgage Network has appointed Donna Bibby as head of finance, with responsibility for...

Homeowners turn to mortgage brokers for guidance ahead of Budget

Mortgage brokers could face increased demand for advice following the Autumn Budget, with 93%...

Halifax updates mortgage application platform ahead of Lloyds rebrand

Halifax Intermediaries has introduced an updated online mortgage application system designed to simplify case...

Northern England dominates property hotspots as buyers seek better value

More than half of England and Wales's 50 leading emerging property hotspots are in...

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