Mortgages

CRM system offers personalised client portal

The Key’s digital Client Portal is now allowing Mortgage advisers to add their own...

The Ipswich cuts 5-year BTL rates and adds later life deal

The Ipswich Building Society has cut the rates and fees on its existing buy-to-let...

LendInvest partners with TBMC

LendInvest has teamed up with buy-to-let mortgage distributor TBMC to offer its loans through...

Fluent for Advisers expands development teams

Fluent for Advisers has appointed two new business development officers (BDOs) to its internal...

Eight-year lending high for the Co-op

The Co-operative Bank has reported mortgage net lending of £1.4bn via Platform, resulting in...

Record mortgage lending for the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has reported increased profits and savings balances, while delivering record...

London remortgaging at 10-year high

UK Finance has revealed that there were 11,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Accord revises buy-to-let offering

Accord Buy To Let has cut the rates on selected two and five-year fixed...

Lending down but profits up at the Newcastle

The Newcastle Building Society has reported a rise in pre-tax profits for 2018 of £13.3m,...

Mortgage balances up 6% at the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported UK net lending of £1.0bn for 2018 and said...

Just Mortgages’ turnover increases by £8bn

Just Mortgages has reported that both its employed and self-employed divisions grew over the...

Barclays to make buy-to-let rate changes

Barclays is making changes across its buy-to-let range, including Reward. This follows its recent revisions...

M&S Bank claims faster applications from open banking

M&S Bank has enabled open banking assisted mortgage applications. Most customers will no longer need...

The Hanley Economic BS launches no-fee shared ownership fix

The Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a no-fee two-year shared ownership fixed rate...

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

Gatehouse Capital strengthens Scottish broker support with new appointment

Gatehouse Capital has appointed Hanif Hussain as business development manager for Scotland as it...

Gen H reduces high-LTV mortgage rates by up to 20bps

Gen H has cut mortgage rates for borrowers with smaller deposits by up to...

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...

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