Mortgages

FSE Midlands: FSA final report not expected until Spring

The mortgage industry should not expect the FCA’s Mortgages Market Study Final Report and...

FSE Midlands: landlords needs adviser help over HMO licensing changes

Advisers have been urged to help those landlords who may be receiving letters from...

FSE Midlands: 2018 has been product transfer year

2018 has been dubbed ‘the year of the product transfer’ by participants in ‘The...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

New chair for Kensington Mortgages

Jayne Almond is to succeed Tim Breedon as chair of Kensington Mortgages. In additional, she will...

No maximum age for Hinckley & Rugby mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has removed any maximum age limit for the...

The Stafford Railway joins TMA’s lender panel

TMA Club has welcomed the Stafford Railway Building Society to its lender panel. TMA’s members...

Legal & General Mortgage Club appoints key relationship manager

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced that Clare Beardmore is joining from the...

Social media changing attitudes to home improvements

Brits are now staying in their property for nearly two decades, with 54% of...

Bluestone Mortgages updates IVA criteria

Bluestone Mortgages has improved its criteria for customers with an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)...

The Leeds unveils discount deals from 0.99%

The Leeds Building Society has added new deals to its variable rate residential range,...

Magellan introduces buy-to-let affordability tool

Magellan Homeloans has developed an online tool designed to simplify finding suitable funding options...

Precise Mortgages appoints new BDM for Scotland

Precise Mortgages has appointed a new dedicated business development manager (BDM) for Scotland. The specialist...

Complete FS to hold National Specialist Lending Forum

Hampshire based packager and distributor Complete FS is hosting a specialist lending forum covering...
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COMMENT

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...

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Help to Buy

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

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

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

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

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...
Appointments

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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