Mortgages

LendInvest improves five-year buy-to-let offering

LendInvest has increased its maximum loan size to £750,000 on its five year fixed...

TMW cuts two and five-year fixed rates

The Mortgage Works has reduced selected two and five-year buy-to-let fixed rate mortgages by...

Just Mortgages in new build lead generation initiative

Just Mortgages is providing brokers within its self-employed arm with new build leads due to...

“Misleading” mortgage mis-selling TV ad banned

A TV ad for Mortgage.Claims, a mortgage assessment company, shown in December 2018 and...

First-time landlord criteria searches most popular in June

Knowledge Bank has revealed the top five most searched-for lender criteria by brokers in...

Newcastle Intermediaries appoints BDM for London

Newcastle Intermediaries has hired Rebecca Roberts as a business development manager (BDM) for London...

The Hanley Economic extends RIO range into Scotland

The Hanley Economic Building Society has extended its range of retirement interest-only (RIO) mortgages...

Kensington exclusives for Legal & General Mortgage Club

Legal & General Mortgage Club members now have access to six exclusive residential deals...

Leek United appoints intermediary mortgages team manager

Leek United has appointed Laura Allcock as intermediary mortgages team manager. Allcock (pictured) has worked for...

Spicerhaart Corporate Sales partners with Responsible Life

Asset management firm Spicerhaart Corporate Sales has announced Responsible Life as its refinance partner...

Habito moves into buy-to-let lending

Online mortgage broker Habits has unveiled a range mortgages for individual landlords. The offering includes...

IMLA predicts a shrinking of PRS over next decade

A new report from the Intermediary Lenders Association (IMLA) has revealed how the buy-to-let...

Landbay secures further £1 billion in funding

Buy-to-let lender Landbay has agreed a £1 billion deal with an institutional investor to...

New deal and first-time buyer campaign from the Leek United

The Leek United Building Society is launching a campaign to help prospective first-time buyers...

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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