Mortgages

The Leeds improves mortgage holiday application process

The Leeds Building Society has updated and improved its online application process for temporary...

FHL ups LTVs and adds new five-year deals

Foundation Home Loans has increased its maximum residential loan to value (LTV) from 75%...

Record lending for the Dudley

The Dudley Building Society has reported that it has had its most successful year...

The Ipswich to pull pair of five-year BTL products

The Ipswich Building Society is to withdraw its five-year standard buy-to-let and five-year expat...

Nationwide to cut maximum LTVs

The Nationwide Building Society is lowering the maximum loan to value (LTV) amount that...

Shawbrook grows product & proposition team

Bradley McMillan has joined Shawbrook Bank's property finance division as senior product development and...

Stabilisation in ESIS numbers

Mortgage Brain has reported that overall ESIS numbers have stabilised at pre-pandemic levels, with...

MCI Club provides Burrow integration with Knowledge Bank

MCI Club has integrated its digital broker platform Burrow into Knowledge Bank’s API in...

Accord moves back into 90% LTV with FTB exclusives

Accord Mortgages is to offer 90% loan to value (LTV) products from 9am on...

Brilliant Solutions surveys broker sentiment

Brilliant Solutions has conducted research into current mortgage broker sentiment. Brokers revealed their biggest perceived challenges as well whether...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries resumes shared ownership offering

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has re introduced its shared ownership residential product range, which is...

NatWest makes core range rate reductions

NatWest has introduced rate decreases of up to 30bps across its existing customer range. The...

Barclays unveils new Help to Buy offering amid widespread changes

Barclays is making changes to a number of its mortgages. The changes are across its...

Castle Trust granted full banking licence

Castle Trust Capital has been granted full authorisation as a bank by the Prudential...

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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