Mortgages

Paradigm to hold DA transition event in Manchester

Paradigm Mortgage Services is holding a Direct Authorisation (DA) Transition workshop in Manchester in July. Following...

TSB revises fixed rates

TSB Bank has cut rates by up to 0.20 percentage points across its three-year...

Network holds its largest training event

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network held its largest bi-annual National Training Event to...

Bank of Ireland raises £350m of funding

ank of Ireland Group has raised £350 million of term funding through a sterling...

Monthly cost of buy-to-let fixes on the rise

The cost of the majority of fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages appear to be on...

The Mortgage Lender reduces residential rates

The Mortgage Lender has cut its two-year residential fixed rates to include a 2.65%...

Barclays increases Great Escape cashback amid rate changes

Barclays is cutting rates tomorrow on a selection of products across its residential, buy-to-let...

Mortgage market unaffected by slowdown in property sector

The latest Mortgage Monitor from E.surv found that there were 65,801 residential mortgages approved...

Gap between average 2 and 5-year fixes at seven-year low

The difference between the average two-year and five-year fixed mortgage rate has narrowed by...

Jason Neale to head up Axis Bank’s buy-to-let business

Axis Bank UK has appointed Jason Neale to take over its buy-to-let lending operation. He...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries appoints senior BDM for East Midlands

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries (KRFI), part of specialist lending and retail savings group OneSavings...

Kensington added to Crystal panel

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has added Kensington Mortgages to its lending panel. The move provides...

The Hinckley & Rugby go live on iFinancial’s AML solution

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has gone live on iFinancial’s AMLtrac anti-money laundering...

Ferguson joins West One Loans for first charge BTL launch

West One Loans has unveiled a range of first charge buy-to-let mortgage products. The range...

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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