Mortgages

Equity release demand could rise from interest-only ‘crunch’

An ‘interest-only mortgage crunch’ could see a wave of over-55s looking to equity release...

Mortgage Brain’s ESIS volumes greater than pre-Covid levels

Mortgage Brain has seen the proportion of ESIS generated by its sourcing systems for...

Applications at PRIMIS up by one-third

The number of applications that the PRIMIS Mortgage Network received between April–June was up...

Foundation Home Loans changes criteria to target less straightforward cases

Foundation Home Loans is making number of key criteria changes to its specialist residential...

The Beverley offers ‘bounce back’ mortgage deals for business owners

Beverley Building Society is offering its ‘Bounce Back' mortgage initiative featuring fresh criteria to...

Castle Trust launches ‘Covid-19 level 3’ criteria

Castle Trust Bank has introduced new criteria which is says is in response to...

Progressive BS joins Knowledge Bank

The Progressive Building Society has added its criteria to the Knowledge Bank platform. Knowledge Bank...

NatWest changes Core and Semi-Exclusive rates

NatWest is introducing rate decreases for products across its Core and Semi-Exclusive ranges for...

The Ipswich to pull 90% LTV 2.79% discount deal

The Ipswich Building Society is to withdraw its 90% LTV 2.79% discount mortgage for...

BoE: mortgage lending remains weak

The Bank of England has reported that the mortgage market remained weak in May...

Click2Check signs up two new advisory firms to Credit Assess

Click2Check has announced two new advisory practice sign-ups for its Credit Assess product, its...

Dream home priorities shift during lockdown

Research from the Skipton Building Society reveals more than a quarter of the 2,000...

YBS unveils 90% first-time buyer deals

The Yorkshire Building Society has reintroduced 90% loan to value (LTV) products exclusively for...

LMS: instruction volumes beginning to steady

LMS has published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the Covid-19...

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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