Mortgages

Simon Read: When do you actually advise your clients?

I don’t know about you, but I was alarmed when Boris Johnson became Prime...

Leek United cuts buy-to-let and residential rates

Leek United has reduced rates on a selection of mortgage products across its range. Its...

Accord improves 95% LTV offering

Accord has increased the cashback offered on its range of 95% loan to value...

Saffron cuts self-employed and contractor mortgage rates

The Saffron Building Society has reduced rates and extended terms on self-employed and contractor...

Foundation Home Loans cuts core buy-to-let rates

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates on selected products across its core buy-to-let F1...

Securitisation likely following new The Mortgage Lender funding line

The Mortgage Lender has agreed a second warehousing facility with TwentyFour Asset Management and...

The Ipswich launches holiday let offering

The Ipswich Building Society has extended its existing buy-to-let mortgage offering to include a...

Newcastle Intermediaries unveils 95% LTV deal at 2.90%

Newcastle Intermediaries has introduced a 95% LTV mortgage at 2.90% and refreshed end dates...

CSF to distribute West One’s buy-to-let range

West One Loans' new limited distribution buy-to-let product range is now available through Crystal...

BrokerSense introduces buy-to-let calculator

BrokerSense, who provide specialist mortgage calculators to brokers, has launched a buy-to-let mortgage calculator. This...

Hope Capital to offer bridging loans for adverse clients

Hope Capital is to lend to borrowers who have had bankruptcies, IVAs or who...

Axis Bank UK appoints buy-to-let manager

Axis Bank UK has appointed Zenzi Tinkorang as buy-to-let manager in its intermediary team. She...

RIO not a magic bullet for majority of interest-only borrowers

Royal London has calculated that the majority of interest-only borrowers looking to move to a...

Virgin Money makes mortgage policy enhancements

Virgin Money has made a number of policy improvements to its mortgage proposition for...

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

Beagle Street expands adviser protection range with Critical Illness Plus

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

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,...

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