Mortgages

First time buyers benefit from May mortgage boost

E.surv's latest Mortgage Monitor has reported that there was a sharp increase in mortgage...

Kensington launches Options range for customers with a ‘blip’

Kensington Mortgages has introduced its new residential Options mortgage range, alongside a wider pricing...

The Leeds offers new two-year BTL deals

The Leeds Building Society has added new two year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages to...

Kent Reliance launches income backed buy-to-let

Kent Reliance has launched a new income backed buy-to-let proposition. The lender, which is part...

Pepper Money improves contractor mortgage criteria

Pepper Money has introduced day rate calculations to assess affordability for contractors. For contractors who...

Magellan Homeloans unveils fee free option for fixes

Magellan Homeloans has today launched a 'fees free' option on its two and three-year...

Interim Report: reasons to be fearful

The whole industry, myself included, has now had some further time to digest the...

The Skipton offers new cashback deals

The Skipton Building Society has revamped its core residential mortgage range and introduced new...

FTBs could be underestimating the importance of a broker

The Yorkshire Building Society Group’s latest First-Time Buyers Report has found that 28% of...

TML partners with Legal & General Mortgage Club

The Mortgage Lender and Legal & General Mortgage Club are joining forces to distribute...

Platform cuts rates on 60-90% LTV mortgages

Platform has reduced rates on all mainstream mortgages of two and five year fixed...

Knowledge Bank unveils Criteria Activity Tracker

Knowledge Bank has launched a new monthly Criteria Activity Tracker to keep brokers and...

Vida recruits trio of key account managers

Vida Homeloans has expanded its sales team with three new key account managers. Sarah Hartwell joins...

Coventry for Intermediaries lowers 10-year rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced rates across its range of 10-year fixed residential mortgages. Rates...

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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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