Mortgages

The Mortgage Lender cuts limited company buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Lender has cut the initial rates on its limited company buy-to-let range...

Newcastle Intermediaries revamps 95% LTV offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut rates rates on its 95% LTV products of up to...

The Vernon hires North West BDM

The Vernon Building Society has appointed Kevin Baggs as mortgage business development manager (BDM). Baggs...

Keystone Property Finance expands distribution

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of two new networks. The specialist buy-to-let...

Skipton International appoints business development manager

Skipton International has appointed Roger Hughes as business development manager (BDM). This new role was...

9% rise in mortgage advances at the Coventry

The Coventry Building Society has reported increased mortgage advances and net lending. The UK’s...

CRM system offers personalised client portal

The Key’s digital Client Portal is now allowing Mortgage advisers to add their own...

The Ipswich cuts 5-year BTL rates and adds later life deal

The Ipswich Building Society has cut the rates and fees on its existing buy-to-let...

LendInvest partners with TBMC

LendInvest has teamed up with buy-to-let mortgage distributor TBMC to offer its loans through...

Fluent for Advisers expands development teams

Fluent for Advisers has appointed two new business development officers (BDOs) to its internal...

Eight-year lending high for the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank has reported mortgage net lending of £1.4bn via Platform, resulting in...

Record mortgage lending for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has reported increased profits and savings balances, while delivering record...

London remortgaging at 10-year high

UK Finance has revealed that there were 11,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Accord revises buy-to-let offering

Accord Buy To Let has cut the rates on selected two and five-year fixed...

COMMENT

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

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Target Group launches staff AI programme for regulated finance

Target Group has launched an AI Champion programme to encourage the responsible use of...

Employment history rises up brokers’ mortgage search agenda

Employment history became a more pressing concern for mortgage brokers in July as changing...

Half of homes taking longer to sell as regional divide widens

Homes in almost half of Great Britain’s local authority areas are taking longer to...

The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market

The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested...

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