Mortgages

New Precise Help to Buy exclusive for PMS and Sesame advisers

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have unveiled a new Help to Buy exclusive...

Castle Trust revamps broker portal

Castle Trust has made major changes to its broker portal, including full online case...

Ingard ARs get access to Axis Bank UK products

Axis Bank UK has announced the addition of Ingard Financial to its intermediary distribution...

The Mansfield expands distribution with Paradigm deal

The Mansfield Building Society has been added to Paradigm Mortgage Services' lender panel. Paradigm members now...

LendInvest joins Brilliant Solutions’ lender panel

LendInvest has joined mortgage club Brilliant Solutions’ lender panel to expand the distribution of...

OMS partners with Iress

One Mortgage System (OMS) has teamed up with Iress to expand its mortgage product...

Average mortgage loyalty penalty “£4,500 per year”

Homeowners who fall onto their lender’s Standard Variable Rate (SVR) mortgage are facing the...

Sainsbury’s Bank ceases new mortgage lending

Sainsbury's Bank is to stop selling mortgages immediately. As part of its five-year plan for financial...

Uses for mortgage cashback revealed

Research for the Leeds Building Society has found that Stamp Duty, home improvements or...

August mortgage approvals remained steady

UK Finance has revealed that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in August...

Accord cuts Help to Buy rates

Accord Mortgages has reduced rates on its Help to Buy product range. The changes include...

Optimistic consumer outlook behind steady remortgage market

LMS has introduced its ‘Remortgage Healthcheck’ Index, produced in partnership with the Centre of...

eKeeper integration expands CRM access

The eKeeper Group, the technology provider of MortgageKeeper, has integrated its CRM solution with...

The Nationwide cuts 90% LTV rates

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

COMMENT

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

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...

Latest news

Majority of first-time buyers now face higher mortgage payments than rent

More than half of first-time buyers moving from rented accommodation into homeownership are taking...

Foundation gains workplace accreditation after 93% staff approval

Specialist lender Foundation has secured Great Place To Work certification after 93% of its...

‘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...

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