Mortgages

Nationwide makes widespread fixed rate cuts

The Nationwide Building Society has cut rates on selected two, three and five-year fixed...

360 Lifecycle integrates with Mortgage Brain

360 Dotnet has announced that its CRM and back office system 360 Lifecycle has...

Vida Homeloans makes “most significant” range changes since launch

Vida Homeloans has launched new residential and buy-to-let product ranges. It follows the recent launch...

“Disappointing” September completions data published

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,100 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in September...

NatWest cuts residential and BTL rates

NatWest has introduced rate reductions on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products. It has made...

The Ipswich to allow foreign currency deposits on expat mortgages

The Ipswich Building Society has revised its expat residential mortgage lending criteria to now...

Canada Life: protection key to mortgage customer retention

32% of homeowners who organised a fixed rate mortgage through an adviser are likely...

E.surv: mortgage approvals hold steady

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv found that there were 65,922 residential mortgages approved...

New deals and maximum loan size at Accord

Accord Mortgages has launched eight new products at 90% and 95% loan to value...

Knowledge Bank sees changes in brokers’ criteria searches

Criteria search firm Knowledge Bank has reported changes in the most common criteria searches...

Eligible unveils client retention calculator for brokers

Eligible has launched a broker client retention calculator to help brokers assess how much...

New five-year fixed rate from TSB

TSB has made changes to its mortgage product range. Changes include the following: Introduction of...

Fleet ups maximum loan size amid criteria changes

Fleet Mortgages has revised its lending and product criteria following feedback from its intermediary partners. The...

Foundation Home Loans cuts a number of two-year buy-to-let deals

Foundation Home Loans has made a number of price cuts across its range 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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