Mortgages

LendInvest added to SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

LendInvest has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages’ lender panel. LendInvest offers buy-to-let mortgages to professional landlords on...

Pepper Money revises sales structure

Pepper Money has refreshed its sSales regions and team structure with the aim to...

Vida intermediary competition to ‘fly’ Concorde

Vida Homeloans is to hold an event for mortgage intermediaries at an air museum,...

Glenhawk unveils free client valuations 

Glenhawk has introduced a free valuation offering. This follows last September’s offer to pay for...

HSBC joins Connect for Intermediaries’ mainstream panel

Connect for Intermediaries has appointed HSBC to its mainstream residential panel for its network. HSBC...

CLS Money appoints sales manager

CLS Money has made a new appointment to oversee its expanding advice team. Alec McCubbing...

Precise Mortgages appoints pair of BDMs

Precise Mortgages has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs) to support brokers in...

Annual house price growth rises slightly

Halifax has reported that house prices in the three months to March were 2.6%...

Landbay adds to regional sales team

Landbay has appointed Helen McKinney joins as head of sales for the South region. In...

New BDMs at BM Solutions

BM Solutions has made new business development manager (BDM) appointments. Gareth Stockton has more than...

Shift in broker criteria searches in March

Knowledge Bank's latest criteria activity tracker has shown a shift in broker searches regarding...

The Mansfield unveils 95% shared ownership deals

The Mansfield Building Society has introduced new two and five-year fixed rate shared ownership...

Cost of five-year buy-to-let fixed rates fall

Online mortgage broker Property Master has revealed that the cost of many popular five-year...

Kensington makes buy-to-let rate reductions

Kensington Mortgages has made rate changes across its buy-to-let mortgage range. Rates have decreased...

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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