Mortgages

The Vernon BS unveils new buy-to-let deals

The Vernon Building Society has launched a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage and increased...

The Nationwide cuts rates at 95% LTV

The Nationwide Building Society has cut selected fixed and tracker mortgage rates at 95%...

Over 1,000 people commit to Mortgage Sleep Out

The number of people in the mortgage industry who have pledged to spend the...

The Leeds supports shared ownership stamp duty cut

The Budget’s Stamp Duty cut for shared ownership first time buyers has been welcomed...

Accord adds new fixed rates to buy-to-let proposition

Accord Buy To Let has introduced a number of two and three-year fixed rate...

Keystone Property Finance joins L&G mortgage panel

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Legal & General, giving members...

BUDGET 2018: Help to Buy extended

The government announced in yesterday’s Budget that Help to Buy will be extended until...

Skipton’s Paul Darwin to retire

Paul Darwin, director of intermediary relationships at the Skipton Building Society, will be retiring...

Prospective first time buyers want empty homes addressed in the Budget

34% of people looking to buy their first home want the government to introduce...

TMA offers exclusive self-employed deal

TMA Club has announced an exclusive two-year discount deal for self-employed borrowers with the...

The Mansfield Building Society appoints national development manager

The Mansfield Building Society has recruited Paul Lewis to the role of national development...

Joint MD appointed for HL Partnership and Mortgage Support Network

The managing director of Mortgage Support Network (MSN), Shaun Almond, has been appointed to...

The Ipswich expands later life mortgage offering

The Ipswich Building Society has bolstered its later life mortgage range with the launch...

Atom plans first securitisation

Atom bank has completed pricing this week on its first residential mortgage-backed securitisation, Elvet...

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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