Mortgages

The Beverley cuts interest-only rates

The Beverley Building Society has reduced the rates on its interest-only mortgages by up to...

The Skipton extends term for 90%+ LTV mortgages

The Skipton Building Society has launched an extended term for mortgages with a loan...

The Leeds unveils pair of new 10-year mortgages

The Leeds Building Society has inutroduced two new 10-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages. The new...

Steve Seal becomes Bluestone MD

Bluestone Mortgages has promoted Steve Seal to the role of managing director. Seal (pictured) joined...

3mc launches Kensington Mortgages exclusives

3mc has unveiled new packager exclusives with Kensington Mortgages, offering 90% LTV and cashback...

Intermediaries remain confident as case load volumes rise

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported a steady rise in the number...

Rise in homemovers for the first time in three years

There has been an increase in number of people moving home for the first...

The Leeds cuts 95% LTV rate

The Leeds Building Society is reducing rates on its 95% loan to value (LTV)...

Barclays makes cuts to residential and Reward rates

Barclays has announced a new round of rate reductions across our Residential and Reward...

The Mansfield joins Air Mortgage Club panel

AIR MORTGAGE CLUB ADD MANSFIELD BUILDING SOCIETY TO RETIREMENT LENDING PANEL Air Mortgage Club...

Keystone pulls its cashback offers

Keystone Property Finance is withdrawing its tiered cashback offers next Monday (2 September). This cashback...

Accord unveils 15-year fix

Accord Mortgages has launched its first ever 15-year fixed rate mortgage. Available to both house...

Gross mortgage lending at highest level for 40 months

UK Finance has reported that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in July...

TWB tweaks residential and buy-to-let rates

TSB Bank has made a number of changes to its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

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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