Mortgages

Mortgage Brain: purchase ESIS “markedly” above pre-Covid levels

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

Stafford Railway joins mortgage club panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced that the Stafford Railway Building Society (Stafford Railway) has joined...

UTB campaign seeks to help mortgage brokers write more business

United Trust Bank (UTB) has launched its #BrokerSummerSupportPackage campaign. Over the coming weeks the bank...

MBE confirms October date for physical London event

Mortgage Business Expo has confirmed that it will return to London as planned, following...

Coventry for intermediaries unveils new customer retention broker guide

Coventry for intermediaries has launched The Mortgage Broker’s Guide to Customer Retention. The new...

32% rise in monthly residential property transactions

HMRC has stated that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential property transactions...

Landlords raising capital behind buy-to-let remortgage boost

Paragon Bank has stated that landlords raising capital contributed to an increase in the...

PropertyPal Mortgages partners with eKeeper

PropertyPal Mortgages, the mortgage arm of a property portal in Northern Ireland, has joined...

The Darlington unveils 90% LTV deal for local people

The Darlington Building Society has launched a new 90% loan to value (LTV) three-year fixed...

Virgin Money pilots first-time buyer purchase app

Virgin Money is trialling a new app designed to help first time buyers navigate...

Decreasing instruction volumes “not yet cause for concern”

LMS has reported that the continued growth of instruction volumes it had seen in...

Virgin to reinstate mortgage service commitment

Virgin Money has announced the reinstatement of its mortgage service commitment from Monday 20...

Metro Bank relaunches 85% & 90% LTV mortgages

Metro Bank has made positive changes to its residential mortgage range. From today, it has reintroduced...

Foundation Home Loans hires product marketing specialist

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Sarah Wade as its product marketing specialist. Wade (pictured) was most recently...

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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