Mortgages

PMS and Sesame offer exclusive Skipton 95% LTV deal

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have launched an exclusive five year fixed rate...

MBE Leeds Expo seminars and panel debates revealed

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) Leeds has announced the seminar and panel programme for the...

TMW cuts two-year and limited company rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is cutting rates for selected two-year fixed and tracker mortgages...

LMS pilots remortgage case updates

LMS has launched the pilot phase of its new case updates solution for brokers...

Doubt over mainstream lenders’ commitment to non-standard borrowers

Just 9% of mortgage brokers think high-street lenders have become more understanding towards non-standard...

Barclays cuts rates and adds new 70% LTV deals

Barclays is making changes to its residential, buy-to-let and Reward ranges tomorrow (Thursday 11...

Professional landlords want manual underwriting

Research from MT Finance has revealed that over one-third of property investors want buy-to-let...

Mortgage Broker Tools surprised by demand for MBT Affordability

In a week since its official launch, MBT Affordability has passed more than 300,000...

Saffron improves self-build offering

The Saffron Building Society has made changes to its self-build mortgages following feedback from...

Criteria Hub extends multi-search functionality

Mortgage Brain has updates its criteria based sourcing solution, Criteria Hub, in order to...

Fleet Mortgages returns with full product range

Fleet Mortgages has announced its return to the mortgage market with a full product range...

Buy-to-let remortgage transaction levels set to fall

Paragon has claimed that higher tax costs will lead to a lower level of...

One in three home movers are now ‘last-time buyers’

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that almost 200,000 owner occupier housing...

Kensington appoints three new ADMs

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of three new account development managers (ADMs). Working for...

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...

Latest news

Expat buy-to-let rates rise sharply for lower-LTV borrowers

British expatriate landlords with larger deposits are facing higher mortgage rates than borrowers with...

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...

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