Mortgages

Head of intermediaries at Platform appointed

The Co-operative Bank has made two senior appointments within its mortgages team. Fred Sharp joins...

Leek United to pay product transfer proc fee

Leek United has introduced product transfers for intermediaries on their residential and buy-to-let mortgages,...

TMA adds the Ipswich to panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of the Ipswich Building Society to its lender panel. TMA...

The Skipton revamps residential range

The Skipton Building Society has launched a refreshed residential mortgage range with reductions of...

The Hinckley & Rugby swells mortgage book

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reported a 3.7% increase in its mortgage...

Trussle appoints CEO

'Digital' mortgage broker, Trussle, has announced the appointment of Ian Larkin as its new...

LendInvest launches green finance initiative

All LendInvest Bridge-to-Let borrowers are now eligible to benefit from a cashback when they...

Mortgage approvals at four-year high

The Bank England has reported that mortgage approvals for house purchase rose to 70,900...

Vida Homeloans cuts rates by up to 65bps

Vida Homeloans has made a number of spring rate cuts. The reductions apply to the...

Twenty7Tec and Mortgage Broker Tools partner for sourcing and affordability

Twenty7Tec has integrated MBT Affordability from Mortgage Broker Tools into its CloudTwenty7 platform. This...

Landbay changes 80% LTV deals

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has revised a number of its products. Changes include the addition of...

Lenders must support changing employment patterns

The 31st of January is a painful day for a growing proportion of the...

The Mortgage Lender simplifies buy-to-let offering

The Mortgage Lender has simplified its buy-to-let range and reduced the majority of rates...

TSB backs Scottish government’s First Home Fund pilot

TSB in now offering mortgages to first-time buyers as part of the Scottish government’s...

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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