Mortgages

OMS integrates with Kensington Mortgages

One Mortgage System (OMS) has undertaken a full system integration with Kensington Mortgages to...

Secure Trust Bank enters Right to Buy market

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has unveiled a range of mortgages for tenants using the...

New buy-to-let products and fees from The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has made changes to its buy-to-let fees and added new rates to...

Barclays Mortgages revamps product offering

Barclays Mortgages is introducing some new products and making rate reductions across its residential,...

Complete FS hires its first business support manager

Complete FS has appointed Sean Latchem to the new role of business support manager. Latchem...

Growth in number of approvals to small deposit borrowers

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market last month. The...

The Nottingham unveils branch-based mortgage advice – via video

The Nottingham Building Society is now offering a branch-based video mortgage advice service. As part...

Treasury says finding solutions for mortgage prisoners “a top priority”

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen MP,  has written to the Treasury...

Retirement lending expected to drive specialist mortgage market growth

Nearly 80% of mortgage intermediaries expect lending into retirement to be the fastest growing...

Remortgaging levels out

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,400 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

The Marsden offers RIO mortgages

The Marsden Building Society has become the latest lender to move into the Retirement Interest...

Precise’s parent sees 27% increase in loan book

Charter Court Financial Services, the group which includes specialist lender Precise Mortgages, has reported...

Pepper Money simplifies adverse product offering

Pepper Money has simplified its criteria for borrowers with adverse credit. Simplified product tiers, which...

Sainsbury’s Bank partners with PRIMIS and PTFS

PRIMIS Mortgage Network and Personal Touch Financial Services (PTFS) have become the latest mortgage...

COMMENT

Are we actually set up to support first-time buyers?

After a summer spent thinking it over, this time of year is often the point where first time buyers decide whether they're going to...

Leasehold reform has a September window – will Burnham use it?

At the time of writing, the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill still has no published First Reading date.  But is it imminent? Andy Burnham entered...

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Latest news

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

Restoring Help to Buy would strengthen developers’ sales without solving the underlying affordability crisis...

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

More than a third of UK employees remain financially fragile despite being in work,...

Nationwide cuts fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15%

Nationwide Building Society is reducing selected fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.15 percentage...

L&G appoints Kerrigan to drive Ignite broker rollout

Legal & General has appointed Craig Kerrigan as broker relationship manager for its Ignite...

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