Mortgages

Redecorating and garden improvements top list of homeowner wants

Following three months of coronavirus lockdown, 69% of homeowners want to make changes to...

“Most” mortgage applicants getting close to desired LTV

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has reported that, while lending options remain restricted at higher...

Society of Mortgage Professionals unveils Associate Firm programme

The Society of Mortgage Professionals (SMP) has introduced an Associate Firm scheme to allow...

Mortgage Engine partners with Fluent Mortgages

Mortgage Engine has developed its API connection with Fluent Mortgages. The brokerage believes the technology could...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries unveils new large loan residential range

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has launched a new large loan residential property range. The product...

Brightstar launches Track & Trace system

The Brightstar Group has introduced its own Track & Trace system which, alongside the...

Shawbrook’s latest results show Covid impact

Shawbrook Bank's pre-tax profit for the fist six- months of 2020 totalled £5.9 million,...

Stonebridge maintains monthly upgrades for Revolution

Stonebridge has announced further development to its trading platform, Revolution, with a focus on...

MPC maintains Bank Rate and issues unemployment warning

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted to hold the Bank...

Smartr365 appoints design and experience director

Smartr365 has announced the appointment of Jens as design and experience director. Wikholm is tasked with...

Mortgage Brain: product numbers remain a concern

Mortgage Brain saw more ESIS generated through its sourcing systems in July than any...

Foundation Home Loans allows credit blips to 80% LTV

Foundation Home Loans has added five products to its residential range to provide more...

The Buckinghamshire appoints key account manager

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has appointed Claire Askham as its new key account manager...

UTB Mortgages launches WebChat

United Trust Bank (UTB) made another set of mortgage product, criteria and technology enhancements...

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...

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‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

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...

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