Mortgages

Mortgage Brain sees “marked” reduction in ESIS volumes

Mortgage Brain has reported a significant rise in lenders changing their products, a reduction...

Pre-Covid rise in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England has reported that the number of mortgages approved in the...

Aldermore to cut variable rates

Aldermore will be decreasing variable mortgage rates by 0.65% following the Bank of England’s...

Covid-19: the Mansfield tightens criteria

The Mansfield Building Society has become the latest lender to take steps to tighten...

Phoebus self-service portal aims to ease call centre pressure

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) has launched a new digital self-service portal that allows lender’s...

The Coventry pulls all mortgage products above 65% LTV

The Coventry Building Society has made the decision to temporarily withdraw all residential, buy-to-let...

Robert Sinclair: “I fear for non-bank lenders”

The chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries has warned that the coronavirus...

Paradigm provides crisis support page

Paradigm Mortgage Services has launched a new Coronavirus support page for advisers which includes information...

CRM system offered free to all UK brokers

Members of the Financial Services Tech Task Force initiative have joined forces to fund...

Smartr365 and Digidentity to provide digital identity service for remortgaging

Smartr365 and Digidentity have announced that brokers who use Smartr365 will be able to...

The Leeds extends mortgage offers

Mortgage offers from the Leeds Building Society are being extended by three months to...

The Coventry changes valuation policy

The Coventry Building Society is making changes to its LTV limits due to surveyors putting...

Halifax pulls all deals over 60% LTV

Leading mortgage lender Halifax has responded to the coronavirus crisis by withdrawing all mortgages...

Covid-19: buy-to-let market “going into reverse”

Property Master believes that landlords will struggle to get mortgages as the impact of...

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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