Mortgages

Accord refreshes buy-to-let offering

Accord Buy To Let has cut rates, extended end dates and unveiled 14 new...

Shariah-compliant provider joins Knowledge Bank

Gatehouse Bank's products are now available on the Knowledge Bank platform. Gatehouse provides Shariah-compliant mortgage...

Mortgage Brain: summer ESIS volumes surpass pre-Covid levels

Mortgage Brain has reported that the volume of ESIS generated through its sourcing systems...

Smartr365 appoints product engineering lead

Smartr365 has today announced the appointment of Edwin Halakooei as product engineering lead. Halakooei (pictured)...

BoE: sharp rise in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England's latest Money and Credit report, covering June, has revealed that...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) appoints new build consultant

Douglas Cochrane is to join Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) as new build strategic consultant...

Virgin Money pulls selected 85% LTV purchase deals

Virgin Money is withdrawing some of its 85% LTV purchase products for new customers. The...

Accord ups higher LTV maximum loan sizes

Accord Mortgages has increased its maximum loan size to £2 million on new lending...

Dynamo for Intermediaries expands panel

Dynamo for Intermediaries has added Hodge to its lender panel. Members of Dynamo for Intermediaries...

SimplyBiz Mortgages to hold summer ‘festival of learning’

SimplyBiz Mortgages has unveiled a six-week programme of virtual events taking place throughout the...

Kensington completes largest securitisation under Covid-19

Kensington Mortgages has raised £650m of funding through the wholesale financial markets. The deal -...

The Mansfield resumes holiday let lending

The Mansfield Building Society has reintroduced its holiday let mortgage product with a three-year...

NatWest moves back into 85% LTV

NatWest has reintroduced eight new rates at 85% LTV. The rates, available for both new...

Bureaucratic backlogs boost e-verification adoption

Anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has claimed that backlogs in issuing official ID documents such as...

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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