Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages suspends new applications

Bluestone Mortgages is today suspending all new mortgage applications as part of a temporary...

Aldermore cuts options for mortgage customers

Aldermore Bank is streamlining its mortgage product offerings and capping loan to value (LTV)...

Knowledge Bank expands Covid-19 feed

Knowledge Bank has added second charges and bridging to its Covid-19 live feed as...

Twenty7Tec offers roadmap for new features

Twenty7Tec is providing all users of its CloudTwenty7 platform with the ability to view...

Covid-19: AMI calls for support with fees

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has been talking to the FCA over the 2020/21 regulatory...

MCI adds AML and credit searches to free CRM

The MCI Club, with funding from the Financial Services Tech Task Force, has extended...

Bank of Ireland sets 85% LTV cap

Bank of Ireland UK is temporarily withdrawing all new business mortgage and further advance...

Regulators should ensure lenders don’t profit from crisis

ME Group, which solves legal disputes using technology, has called for the government to...

Paradigm adds AVMs to Lender Matrix

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added a new section of information capturing lenders’ automatic valuation...

Beaufort Group unveils mortgage advice service

Beaufort Group has launched its dedicated new mortgage advice business, Beaufort Mortgages. The firm said...

Foundation Home Loans suspends new applications

Foundation Home Loans has become the latest lender to temporarily suspend all new applications. It...

The Nationwide sets 75% maximum LTV

The Nationwide Building Society is today (Tuesday 31 March) temporarily withdrawing 'high' loan to...

The Skipton to reinstate residential & BTL purchases

The Skipton Building Society says it will shortly be reinstating purchase business by extending...

Accord makes widespread valuation changes

Accord Mortgages has updated its valuation policy to ensure that new applications can be...

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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