Mortgages

Newcastle BS gross mortgage lending up 65% year-on-year

The Newcastle Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the first half of...

The Mortgage Lender puts onsite underwriter in Complete FS office

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has once again expanded its team of onsite underwriters with...

Bluestone Mortgages aims remortgage product at debt consolidators

Bluestone Mortgages' fee-free remortgage offering is now available for borrowers consolidating debts. The updated product helps...

Fleet Mortgages extends new build offer and valuation times

Fleet Mortgages has extended its offer and valuation times for new-build purchases across both...

Gross lending remains consistent at the Yorkshire BS

The Yorkshire Building Society has published its interim results for the six months which...

Gross mortgage lending down 4% year-on-year

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

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints new national account manager

Newcastle Intermediaries has appointed a new national account manager and expanded its business development team...

FTBs in the South East most stretched in country, despite higher salaries

Homeowners in the North of England are 'the best-off in Britain', with more disposable...

LendInvest makes business development hires

LendInvest has made a number of field based and internal hires to its business development team. Nigel...

One-third of direct mortgage customers have no protection

34% of Legal & General Mortgage Club consumers who purchased their mortgage direct from...

The Nationwide cuts selected fixed rates

The Nationwide Building Society has reduced a number of two, three and five-year fixed...

Brightstar launches education initiative

Brightstar Financial has introduced an education programme for brokers. The distributor will, over the coming...

Arnold & Baldwin seminars to help brokers with surveying process

Arnold & Baldwin has introduced a range of CPD seminars to help brokers establish...

The Leek United joins SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of Leek United Building Society to its lending...

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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