Mortgages

First-time buyers remain dominant in driving housing activity

Lloyds Bank has reported that the number of people moving home increased for the...

Portfolio landlords more likely to remortgage via limited company

One-third of all landlords intend to remortgage over the course of the next 12...

Paragon increases switch product procuration fees

Paragon has updated its buy-to-let switch and further advance product range for portfolio and...

First-time buyer numbers close to pre-crash levels

The Yorkshire Building Society has calculated that the number of people buying their first...

Small fall in first-time buyer mortgages in June

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,760 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

LMS partners with Leek United

Conveyancer and panel management firm LMS has undertaken a new partnership with Leek United. The building...

S&P affirms Pepper UK’s servicing ranking

Standard & Poor has affirmed the ranking of ‘above average’ for Pepper UK as...

Leek United expands intermediary team

Leek United has made a series of appointments to its intermediary mortgage team. George Simpson...

Brokers and clients want accelerated application process

78% of intermediaries have clients who are in some way dissatisfied with the manual,...

GWlegal makes remortgage questionnaire digital

GWlegal has announced the digitalisation of its online questionnaire for remortgage clients, as well...

Bank of Ireland UK relaunches broker portal

Bank of Ireland UK has added new features to its mortgage application system for...

Newcastle Intermediaries allows 5-yr early repayment on 10-yr fix

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched two 10-year fixed rate deals which have an early repayment charge...

Vida Homeloans appoints Midlands key account manager

Vida Homeloans has recruited Mil Consiglio as its new key account manager for the...

New remo deals from the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has reduced rates on selected fee-free fixed rate remortgages and added...
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COMMENT

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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Protection

Beagle Street expands adviser protection range with Critical Illness Plus

Beagle Street has launched Critical Illness Plus into the intermediary market, offering cover for...
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...
News

Foundation gains workplace accreditation after 93% staff approval

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

‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

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