Mortgages

TSB cuts purchase and remortgage rates

TSB Bank has reduced interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on mortgages...

TMA Club makes final registration call for national conference

TMA Club has announced a final call for registration to its first national conference. The club...

Accord sees boost in use of online product transfers

Accord Mortgages has reported a 53% increase in online product transfers since launching a...

Barclays cuts rates on seven deals

Barclays is making changes across its residential, and buy-to-let and Reward ranges. The changes, which...

Profits up at Paragon Banking Group

Paragon Banking Group plc has posted a year-on-year increase in profits of 8.7% to...

Landbay volunteers to take independent stress test

Landbay has conducted an independent stress test against the Bank of England macroeconomic scenarios...

The Yorkshire cuts longer-term fixed rates

The Yorkshire Building Society has reduced rates on its longer-term mortgages. The mutual now has...

Tesco Bank stops new mortgage lending

Tesco Bank has announced that it has ceased new mortgage lending and is actively...

“Distinct” new buy-to-let offering unveiled by Masthaven

Masthaven has launched a new buy-to-let range which includes flexible criteria points, rates for non-traditional tenants...

Skipton extends maximum term of UK buy-to-let mortgages

Skipton International has extended the maximum mortgage term of its UK buy-to-let mortgages to...

The Newbury BS joins TMA panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of Newbury Building Society to its lender panel. Members...

Accord ups maximum buy-to-let LTV to 80%

Accord Buy To Let has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) on its...

Third securitisation for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loan has completed its third securitisation under the Twin Bridges platform. Called Twin...

MAB takes stake in telephone-based mortgage adviser

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has acquired a 25% stake in The Mortgage Broker Limited,...

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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