Mortgages

Complete FS offers the Tipton & Coseley’s RIO product

Complete FS has added the Tipton & Coseley Building Society’s RIO product to its...

NatWest improves buy-to-let proposition

NatWest had made changes to its buy-to-let calculator and wider offering for landlords. It has...

Brightstar launches interest-only & later life lending guide

Brightstar Financial has published a guide to interest-only mortgages and later life lending to...

Sharp rise in number of lenders offering limited company BTL

The number of buy-to-let lenders lending to limited companies has increased by 47% over...

Bluestone Mortgages extends Help to Buy range to Wales

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the extension of its Help to Buy range in Wales. Last...

Mortgage approvals at seven-month low

UK Finance has revealed that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in September...

Newcastle Intermediaries broadens interest-only offering

Newcastle Intermediaries is expanding its interest-only offer to its range of residential mortgages, including...

3mc offers Pepper exclusives

3mc has unveiled new packager exclusives from Pepper Money and now also has an...

New CEO for Leek United BS

Leek United has announced the appointment of Andrew Healy as the Society’s new chief...

Fleet Mortgages appoints national sales manager

Fleet Mortgages has announced the promotion of Graham Le Bas to the position of...

Landlords looking to cut their mortgage finance costs

The proportion of landlords looking to remortgage is now at an all-time high according...

The Leeds offers Easy Start to landlords

The Leeds Building Society's latest buy-to-let mortgage offers an 'Easy Start' for landlords when...

77% of landlords plan to buy more property in the next 12 months

Nearly 80% of landlords plan to grow their portfolios over the next 12 months,...

FP Show supports Mortgage Sleep Out

The Finance Professional Show is backing Mortgage Sleep Out, with a number of initiatives...

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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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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