Mortgages

OSB lenders to honour product a case was initially submitted on

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, Precise Mortgages and InterBay Commercial have stated all buy-to-let and...

Platform reintroduces lending at 80% LTV

Platform is reintroducing mortgage products up to 80% LTV for homebuyers looking to purchase a...

Covid causes huge slump in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has revealed that March saw the number of mortgage approvals...

FCA confirms support for mortgage customers with temporary payment difficulties

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed the support firms should give to mortgage...

Newcastle Intermediaries relaunches interest-only products

Newcastle Intermediaries has relaunched its interest-only mortgage range with the introduction of new two-year...

Barclays reintroduces large loans and 75% BTL

Barclays Mortgages has made changes across its residential, buy-to-let and reward ranges. The bank is reducing...

Shawbrook rolls out My Shawbrook Portal to all broker partners

Shawbrook Bank has announced that its online system which has reduced product switch processing times...

The Mortgage Lender cuts fees on large buy-to-let loans

The Mortgage Lender has lowered the completion fees on buy-to-let loans above £500k to...

PRIMIS sees 29% rise in broker queries since Covid-19 outbreak

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has reported that its product desk resolved a total of 4,641...

Bluestone Mortgages resumes lending full range

Bluestone Mortgages has recommenced new lending activity on all products in its residential and...

Co-Op & Platform help Centrepoint with £75k fund

The Co-operative Bank and Platform have worked with its trustee partners of historic special...

Saffron: self-build completions up 144%

The Saffron Building Society has reported a 144% increase in its self-build completions compared...

The Yorkshire removes property value restrictions

The Yorkshire Building Society has removed all property value restrictions and returned its maximum...

LMS: May remortgage instruction spike continues

LMS has today published its latest weekly update, tracking remortgage market performance through the...

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...

Latest news

‘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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