Mortgages

PMS appoints regional manager quartet

PMS Mortgage Club has appointed four new regional key account managers to support its directly...

The Skipton unveils mortgages for its Lifetime ISA customers

The Skipton Building Society has introduced a new range of mortgage products available exclusively...

Aldermore to hold seminars at MBE London

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) is to hold a series of seminars by Aldermore at...

Almost half of those refused a mortgage unlikely to apply again

45% of people in the UK who have their mortgage application declined by a...

Record recruitment month for Stonebridge

Stonebridge Group has today revealed August 2019 was a record month for appointed representative...

Would-be first-time buyers lacking homebuying knowledge

A new study from Santander Mortgages has outlined misconceptions and knowledge gaps among aspiring...

Shawbrook unveils easy product switching service

Shawbrook has released a new online system, My Shawbrook Portal, which is designed to...

Habito issues ‘jargon-free’ mortgage T&Cs

Online mortgage broker and lender Habito, the pioneering has published what it is hailing...

Reliance Bank joins Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has revealed that Reliance Bank has become the latest...

The Yorkshire cuts longer-term fixed rates

The Yorkshire Building Society has reduced rates across its mortgage range. The mutual has reduced...

Buy-to-let purchases up 5.5% year-on-year

UK Finance has revealed that there were 32,640 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Mortgage lending up 21% at Openwork

Openwork hard reported an 18% rise in pre-tax profits, reaching a new record of £22.6m. The...

Reliance Bank joins PMS and Sesame lender panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have added Reliance Bank’s range of mortgage products...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs continue to fall

Latest figures from Mortgage Brain’s quarterly product data analysis reveal that mortgage costs in...

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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