Mortgages

NatWest ups rates and unveils new green mortgages

NatWest has announced rate increases across its new and existing customer ranges. For new business...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils five-year JMSP deal

Newcastle Intermediaries has revised its Joint Mortgage Sole Proprietor (JMSP) range to include a...

Skipton to reduce residential rates for new customers

The Skipton Building Society is launching a refreshed residential mortgage range with reductions across...

Barclays adds new 60% deals and cuts five-year fixed rates

Barclays is to make changes to its residential purchase and remortgage range on Wednesday...

The Skipton to integrate with APPLY in Q1 2021

TwentyTec’s APPLY module is to integrate with the Skipton Building Society’s origination platform. APPLY...

Coventry for Intermediaries to introduce new deals up to 75% LTV

Coventry for Intermediaries is adding new products to its owner-occupied mortgage range this week,...

Pandemic causing more woes for first-time buyers

Many prospective first time buyer are struggling to secure a mortgage as challenges around credit...

Second charges an alternative to high LTV remortgages

Specialist brokerage Loans Warehouse has urged brokers to look second charge lending if they...

New first-time buyer range from TSB

TSB has launched a new product range of mortgages specifically aimed at first-time buyers...

FTB auto-enrolment pension idea “unlikely to help many”

The Ipswich Building Society has given its view on the recently floated idea of...

Record month for The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender saw record increases in buy-to-let applications and completions at the end...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils new 80% LTV deals

Newcastle Intermediaries has added a pair of 80% LTV mortgages to its existing range. The...

Firms not continuously testing their websites

Digital agency Dock9 has revealed that many mortgage businesses don't frequently test their websites, with 20%...

Network sees 215 rise in ARs’ enquiries

PRIMIS Mortgage Network's product desk dealt with 2,186 inbound queries from Appointed Representative (AR)...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

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...

Latest news

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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%...

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