Mortgages

Impact Specialist Finance to package for UTB

Impact Specialist Finance has announced a packaging agreement with United Trust Bank (UTB,) which...

Atom bank partners with TruNarrative

TruNarrative has partnered with Atom bank plc, to provide an AML transaction monitoring and...

Coventry for Intermediaries broadens buy-to-let policy

Coventry for Intermediaries has made a number of changes to its buy-to-let proposition. It has...

Foundation Home Loans offers new limited company BTL deal

Foundation Home Loan has introduced a new five-year fixed rate product solely for buy-to-let...

March saw year-on-year decrease in first-time buyers

UK Finance's Mortgage Trends Update for March 2019  has revealed that there were 28,800...

Together reports “solid performance” for last quarter

Together has reported that profit before tax for the first quarter of 2019 was...

PMS unveils financial crime prevention hub for advisers

PMS Mortgage Club is seeking to help directly authorised firms to protect their businesses...

Brokers unlikely to be usurped by technology: Sinclair

True robo mortgage advice is “not coming in my lifetime”, according to AMI’s Robert...

AMI’s Sinclair slams latest consultation paper from FCA

The recent FCA Consultation Paper CP19/17, ‘Consultation on mortgage advice and selling standards’ has...

Mortgage adviser directory ‘still a year away’

AMI’s chief executive, Robert Sinclair, has warned that the directory of mortgage advisers –...

NatWest to cut core and semi-exclusive rates

NatWest is cutting rates on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products tomorrow (16 May). These...

April saw a 5.5% rise in approvals from March

E.surv has reported that there was a sharp increase in mortgage approvals in April,...

TSB cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

TSB has made a number of rate changes to its residential and buy-to-let ranges. Changes...

Mortgage Brain appoints new chairman

Mortgage Brain has appointed Peter Hill as its new chairman. Hill, whose previous roles include...

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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