Mortgages

Virgin Money expands range to include 15-year fixes

Virgin Money has launched a new range of long term fixed rate residential and...

The Coventry signs deal to improve its understanding of affordability

The Coventry Building Society is to use MBT Affordability from Mortgage Broker Tools to...

Vida Homeloans unveils new Help to Buy range

Vida Homeloans has introduced a new range of Help to Buy specialist mortgage products...

Mortgage Brain appoints CTO

Mortgage Brain has appointed Ken Deegan as its chief technical officer (CTO). Deegan (pictured) has...

NatWest makes residential and buy-to-let rate changes

NatWest has introduced rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products and buy-to-let...

36% of brokers think execution-only will hit their business

23% of mortgage intermediaries expect that consumers will choose to bypass advice and arrange...

Keystone triples larger loan cashback

Specialist buy-to-let lender Keystone Property Finance has increased the cashback offering across its entire...

Charter Court-One Savings Bank deal clears major competition hurdle

The acquisition of Charter Court Financial Services Group plc by OneSavings Bank plc looks...

Pepper UK agrees servicing deal with Habito

Pepper UK has been appointed by online mortgage broker Habito to provide end-to-end servicing...

The Dudley to provide underwriter at Complete FS

Hampshire based specialist packager, Complete FS, has revealed that Dudley Building Society has become...

TSB makes rate changes to fixes

TSB Bank has announced changes to its residential range of mortgages. Changes are as follows: ...

AmTrust sees large increase in deposits and loans required by FTBs

AmTrust has reported that there has been a significant increase in the cost of...

Majority of BTL lenders offer limited company deals

59% of all buy-to-let mortgage lenders offered products to landlords who use limited companies...

Vida Homeloans joins Master Private Finance panel

Mortgage/protection network JLM Mortgage Services’ specialist mortgage desk, Master Private Finance, has added Vida Homeloans...

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

Coventry raises interest-only mortgage LTV limit to 75%

Coventry for intermediaries has widened access to interest-only mortgages by increasing its maximum loan-to-value...

Cornerstone backs Sheffield FC following expansion into city

Cornerstone Finance Group has agreed a sponsorship deal with Sheffield FC for the 2026-27...

Landbay strengthens northern broker support with Daniel Bell appointment

Landbay has appointed Daniel Bell as business development manager for North Yorkshire, the North...

Fleet Mortgages adds one-year buy-to-let fixes and cuts HMO rate by30bps

Fleet Mortgages has introduced a range of one-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages for landlords seeking...

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