Mortgages

Mortgage search volumes rose after second lockdown began

Twenty7Tec has published data on the state of the mortgage market one week after...

Platform resumes 90% LTV lending

Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of the Co-operative Bank, is reintroducing five year fixed...

New range and broker exclusive from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has made changes to its residential and buy-to-let mortgage product offering. In addition,...

Foundation switches to new underwriting platform

Foundation Home Loans is adopting to LendingMetrics’ ADP underwriting technology. The buy-to-let and residential lender has...

Overseas buyers drove October market activity

Latest figures from Legal & General Mortgage Club's SmartrCriteria tool shows that mortgages for applicants...

Habito offers £500 buy-to-let cashback and ups proc fee

All Habito buy-to-let mortgage products will now come with a customer cashback payout of...

UTB ups first and second charge maximum LTV

United Trust Bank (UTB) has increased the maximum LTV available on its range of...

Affordability analysis could mean a bigger home

The latest MBT Affordability Index from Mortgage Broker Tools has found that the average...

Kensington unveils new digital mortgage platform

Kensington Mortgages is now using a new digital platform created by Sopra Banking Software...

Over one million homebuyers with adverse credit

New research has found that an estimated 1.09 million people with adverse credit could...

Barclays makes residential and BTL rate cuts

Barclays is making a series of changes to its residential, buy-to-let and Reward ranges. The...

HTB appoints chief risk officer

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has announced the appointment of Paul Collyer as its new...

TMA: use tech to deal with product maturation spike

TMA Club is calling on advisers who aren’t doing so already to start using...

MoneySuperMarket extends partnership with Optimus

Conveyancing panel management specialist, Optimus, has announced that its agreement with MoneySuperMarket has been...

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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