Mortgages

Rebrand and technology focus for MCI Club

MCI Club has undergone a rebrand and relaunch, with a new logo and a...

Mortgage Brain: product numbers at “post-pandemic high”

 Product numbers increased last week to the highest level seen since the pandemic took...

Accord improves porting products and proc free

Accord Mortgages has enhanced its portability procuration fee, launched new high LTV products for...

Platform relaunches 90% LTV offering

From Monday 29 June, Platform, the intermediary mortgage brand of the Co-operative Bank, will offer...

Hodge improves conveyancing options

Hodge has appointed ULS Technology as its solicitor panel management service provider. It has 91...

May residential transaction volumes up 16% on April

HMRC has reported that the provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential property transactions...

SDL Surveying sees rise in physical and desktop valuations

National residential surveying and valuations firm, SDL Surveying, has published its figures for May,...

Openwork sees adviser numbers rise in lockdown

Openwork's adviser numbers at have increased to 4,000 in June. Around 100 advisers have joined...

MBE London Expo opens for free registration

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that its London Expo, to be held at...

Castle Trust becomes Castle Trust Bank

Castle Trust has launched its new brand identity,following the receipt of a full banking...

Nearly two million payment holidays taken

1.9 million mortgage payment deferrals have been granted to homeowners, three months since the...

Kensington sells £400m RMBS to market

Kensington Mortgages has raised £400m of funding through the wholesale financial markets. The deal is...

Help to Buy back and LTVs up to 85% at Platform

Platform is reintroducing its Help to Buy mortgage range and also making mortgages of...

Paradigm sees growth over last year

Paradigm Mortgage Services has reported growth in membership numbers, revenue and gross lending completions over...

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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