Mortgages

NatWest unveils wide range of rate reductions

NatWest is to introduce rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products tomorrow...

Paragon reveals John Heron’s successor

Paragon Banking Group will be appointing Richard Rowntree as its new managing director of...

Interest-only remains most popular mortgage criteria search

Criteria search firm Knowledge Bank has reported that interest-only loans have maintained their place...

Barclays unveils new Great Escape three-year deals

Barclays has made a number of positive changes across its Residential and Reward ranges. It...

UTB to use facial recognition for ID verification

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced an electronic ‘facial recognition’ ID verification service through...

ULS to provide conveyancing services to the Principality

ULS Technology has signed a conveyancing service agreement with the Principality Building Society. The Principality...

Kensington makes widespread rate reductions

Kensington Mortgages has made interest rate cuts on its Young Professional, Large Loan, Select,...

Money Group to use OMS System across all platforms

Mortgage processing CRM platform One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by all of the...

Fleet underwriter joins Complete FS office

Complete FS has announced its latest onsite underwriter addition with the appointment of Wayne...

2019 FSE London seminar programme revealed

Front Events, organisers of Financial Services Expo (FSE) London, has published the full seminar...

Clever Lending duo take charge of growth plans

Clever Lending has appointed two new directors to lead the specialist distributor’s ambitious plans...

The Earl Shilton joins SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

The Earl Shilton Building Society (ESBS) has joined the SimplyBiz Mortgages lender panel. SimplyBiz...

Smartr365 to integrate SmartrCriteria search tool

Smartr365 is integrating Legal & General Mortgage Club’s digital mortgage criteria searching tool, SmartrCriteria,...

The West Brom adds cashback and cuts rates

The West Brom building society has made changes to its fixed rate mortgage range,...

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...

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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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