Mortgages

Technology should cut down “horrendous” paper trail

Brokers attending yesterday's FSE Wales exhibition heard that the increased use of technology solutions,...

TMW cuts five-year rates

The Mortgage Works has cut its five-year fixed rate mortgage products by up to 0.50...

DPR Group acquires online mortgage broker

Mortgage technology provider DPR has acquired online mortgage broker Burrow. The move follows on from...

Brightstar to hold specialist webinar

Brightstar Financial has launched a new specialist lending webinar in partnership with Secure Trust...

The Leeds revamps fixed rate range

The Leeds Building Society has cut rates on mortgages across all loan to value...

3mc launches Help to Buy exclusives with Precise Mortgages

3mc has launched a range of exclusive Help to Buy products with Precise Mortgages. The...

Accord offers let to buy market for first time landlords

Accord Buy To Let has expanded its offering for first time landlords after seeing...

Kent Reliance extends day one remortgage option

Kent Reliance has announced that the option to remortgage a property from Day One will...

Vida Homeloans joins Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor market

Vida Homeloans has launched its Helping Hand product to assist parents in getting their...

Brokers frustrated by lenders changing their minds

LendInvest surveyed brokers at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo in Birmingham last week to discover...

Leek United boosts loan limit by £100,000

Leek United has increased its mortgage lending limit from 85% LTV and above. The change...

New role for Pascoe at Skipton International

Nigel Pascoe has been appointed as director of business development at Skipton International. After working...

Pepper revises self-employed mortgage criteria

Pepper Money has made changes to its criteria for self-employed borrowers and will now...

Phoebus reaches £40bn milestone

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has reported that client lending and savings balances serviced on its...

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AUTUMN BUDGET: Further damage to buy-to-let investors

Yesterday’s Budget represented yet another decisive step in the dismantling of the traditional buy-to-let sector. The Government has chosen to tighten the tax screw on...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Much ado about nothing… Thank goodness

The Keystone Cops were out in force yesterday in the Commons, as exemplified by the OBR’s involuntarily (we suppose) leaking of the Budget before...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Affordability remains the key to activity

After all the speculation, this Budget offered little for the housing market. No stamp duty reform, no meaningful support for first-time buyers and a new...

Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape

Gareth Lewis has spent the past seven years at MT Finance, guiding the specialist lender through periods of significant market turbulence and expansion. In a...

NO FILTER: MAB’s relentless founder on risk, resilience and reinvention

Peter Brodnicki, co-founder and long-serving chief executive of Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB), has spent 25 years building one of the UK’s most successful mortgage...

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AUTUMN BUDGET: Further damage to buy-to-let investors

Yesterday’s Budget represented yet another decisive step in the dismantling of the traditional buy-to-let...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Much ado about nothing… Thank goodness

The Keystone Cops were out in force yesterday in the Commons, as exemplified by...

LifeSearch adds digital trust capability to online life insurance journey

LifeSearch has partnered with Trust Genie and Yavia to allow customers buying life insurance...

First-time buyer affordability improves as wages rise and mortgage rates ease

First-time buyers are seeing the most favourable affordability conditions in almost a decade, according...

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