Mortgages

New chairman and investor for Mortgage Magic

Mortgage Magic, which launched its CRM and mortgage management platform last week, has revealed...

Rebrand for eTech Solutions

eTech Solutions has rebranded to CoreLogic UK. While all services remain as before, the...

Foundation Home Loans cuts core buy-to-let rates 

Foundation Home Loans has made a series of rate reductions across a number of...

Self-employed struggling to be approved by lenders

There is an effective ‘access gap’ for self-employed borrowers, compared to those with more...

Stonebridge lending volumes up 11%

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has published its 2019 trading results. Mortgage completions nudged £8...

OMS integrates credit reporting facilities

One Mortgage System (OMS) has integrated UK Credit Ratings into its live platform. The move...

The Hinckley & Rugby to split mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society will now allow mortgages to be split, in...

Pepper Money breaks £1bn barrier

Pepper Money has revealed that it completed more than £1bn worth of first and...

The Mansfield backs Scotland First Home Fund initiative

The Mansfield Building Society has made its standard residential and specialist Versatility mortgage range...

Pepper Money introduces electronic identity verification

Pepper Money hade introduced automatic electronic identification and residency verification (E-ID), removing the requirement...

The Yorkshire eases self-employed evidence requirements

The Yorkshire Building Society is cutting the number of years’ evidence required from those...

Hodge aligns minimum ages of interest-only products

Hodge has lowered the minimum age of its Residential Interest Only mortgage from 55+...

PRIMIS adds Vida Homeloans to lender panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network is welcoming specialist lender, Vida Homeloans, onto its lender panel. Members of...

Beaumont to become The Mortgage Lender chief exec

Peter Beaumont is to head up The Mortgage Lender following record performance in 2019...

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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