Mortgages

The Hanley Economic expands intermediary support

The Hanley Economic Building Society has appointed Kate McKeon as an intermediary sales assistant...

Gatehouse Bank added to Legal & General Mortgage Club panel

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced that Gatehouse Bank is the latest bank...

Private Label publishes average referral fee

High value residential first charge service provider Private Label has paid brokers an average...

New transfer option for mortgage interest support

Disabled people and others receiving Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) will now be able...

Barclays makes widespread rate cuts

Barclays has reduced rates on a number of products across its residential, buy-to-let and...

Axis Bank UK expands key account team

Axis Bank UK has appointed Dean Linklater as key account manager for the north. The...

Bank of Mum and Dad lending more than ever

Legal & General has revealed that the Bank of Mum and Dad (BoMaD) has...

Coventry for Intermediaries updates daily rate contractor criteria

Coventry for intermediaries has updated its lending policy in a move designed to reflect...

Ipswich exclusive for Legal & General Mortgage Club members

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced an exclusive residential offering for its members...

Top criteria searches keep changing

Knowledge Bank has stated that the top five most searched-for criteria by brokers have...

TSB cuts homebuyer and remortgage rates

TSB has cut interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on mortgages for...

April first-time buyer completions up 8% year-on-year

UK Finance has published its Mortgage Trends Update for April 2019. There were 27,370 new...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries joins MCI panel

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has joined the MCI Mortgage Club lender panel. MCI Mortgage Club...

Self-employed make major life changes in bid for property ownership

Online mortgage broker Trussle has reported that 38% self-employed borrowers are making what it...

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

Family BS reduces fixed mortgage pricing for landlords and homeowners

Family Building Society has cut rates across its two-year fixed mortgage range by up...

Sprive records ninefold rise in shoppers as mortgage cashback spending reaches £185m

Mortgage cashback app Sprive has reported a sharp increase in customer activity, with shoppers...

Mortgage deals last just 15 days as volatility hits record high

Mortgage products are lasting just 15 days on average this year as lenders repeatedly...

BetterHome Group UK appoints former MAB finance director as CFO

BetterHome Group UK has appointed Martin Tullett as chief financial officer, bringing in a...

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