Mortgages

New buy-to-let incentives from TSB

TSB has launched new buy-to-let products with a £300 cashback offer or free legal...

Paradigm to hold DA transition workshop in Belfast

Paradigm Mortgage Services has revealed that its second Direct Authorisation (DA) Transition workshop will take...

Precise Mortgages expands its Help to Buy proposition

Precise Mortgages has extended its Help to Buy range to include Help to Buy Scotland...

The Skipton appoints head of mortgage products

The Skipton Building Society has announced the appointment of a new head of mortgage products. Alex...

The Vernon unveils offset RIO options

The Vernon Building Society has added four new products to its retirement mortgage range. The...

SBG and Aviva fund blockchain-based mortgage startup

Sesame Bankhall Group and Aviva announce £5 million Acre Software investment in exclusive deal...

Portico launches mortgage and protection service

London estate and letting agency, Portico, has launched Portico Finance, a mortgage broker and...

Connect for Intermediaries to hold more training academies

Connect for Intermediaries has planned seven extra training academies this year following demand after...

New affordability platform introduced

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has launched MBT Affordability. It is designed to provider brokers with...

Brightstar Financial to hold spring webinars

Brightstar Financial has teamed up with a number of industry partners to launch a...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts rates at 95% LTV

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut its 95% LTV range by up to 0.27 percentage points....

Leek United appoints business development manager

Leek United has appointed Dan Berrisford as business development manager. Berrisford (pictured) has over 12 years’...

Barclays cuts five-year rates

Barclays has cut certain rates within its five year purchase and remortgage product range. The rate...

Platform removes housing benefit lending restrictions

Platform has removed all letting conditions that restrict landlords letting to tenants who receive...

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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