Mortgages

FSE Manchester 2019 seminar programme revealed

Front Events has published the full seminar programme for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester,...

Clever Lending boosts field-based team

Clever Lending has appointed two additional field-based sales managers. Stacey Woods and Tanya Legge have...

Sainsbury’s Bank announces widespread rate changes

Sainsbury’s Bank has made a number fo changes to its residential & buy-to-let product...

The West Brom ups 95% LTV maximum loan size

The West Bromwich Building Society has increased the maximum loan size it will offer...

Legal & General Mortgage Club updates SmartrCriteria

Legal & General Mortgage Club has made changes to SmartrCriteria, its digital criteria search...

Precise allows top slicing across complete buy-to-let range

Precise Mortgages has extended its top slicing feature available across its entire buy-to-let range. The...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again unanimously voted to...

FCA launches study into intergenerational finance

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a discussion paper on Intergenerational Differences, exploring...

Barclays to make residential and Reward range revisions

Barclays is making changes to its residential and Reward ranges tomorrow, 3 May. Changes include reductions...

HMOs still providing highest rental yields

The Leeds Building Society's latest study has found that landlords letting houses in multiple...

M&S Bank appoints CEO

M&S Bank has appointed Paul Spencer as its CEO. This follows his appointment as interim CEO...

L&G Mortgage Club offers RIO exclusive from H&R

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage...

Mortgage borrowing up £4.1bn month-on-month

Mortgage market activity picked up in March, following a weak February, according to latest...

The Teacher’s BS joins TMA lender panel

TMA Club has announced the addition of the Teacher’s Building Society to its lender...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

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...

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Commonhold reform faces practical challenges over finance and building management

The introduction of commonhold as an alternative to leasehold will require significant preparation across...

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...

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