Mortgages

Richard Howells appointed Sesame managing director

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced the appointment of Richard Howells as managing director...

The Hinckley & Rugby grows mortgage book

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reported mortgage advances of £183m for 2018,...

The Saffron introduces ‘enhanced affordability’ calculator

The Saffron Building Society has unveiled a new affordability calculator designed to help brokers...

Landbay joins MCI Club panel

Landbay is partnering with The Mortgage Compliance & Insurance Club, to provide brokers and...

Overcoming the mortgage Catch-22s

A friend of mine is prone to occasionally trying his hand at stand-up comedy. One...

Accord Mortgages’ revamp includes new offset deals

Accord Mortgages has revamped its mortgage range with changes that will help both borrowers...

Foundation Home Loans unveils new Fix to Flex 5-year BTL product

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a new ‘Fix to Flex’ five-year, buy-to-let deal aimed...

Loan book high for Together

Together has reported average monthly loan originations of £171.7m for the final quarter of 2018, up...

The Leeds cuts first-time buyer rates

The Leeds Building Society is making a range of rate reductions on high loan...

Keystone appoints BDM for the Midlands

Keystone Property Finance has appointed Louise Roderick-Smith as a business development manager (BDM) covering...

New residential deals from the Nottingham

The Nottingham for Intermediaries has unveiled new residential mortgages. The products, available for purchases and...

The Mortgage Lender moves into Help to Buy market

The Mortgage Lender has introduced its first range of Help to Buy mortgages for...

PRIMIS introduces marketing portal for its advisers

PRIMIS has launched a new marketing portal, which allows its members to browse in-house...

CLS Money launches Talk Mortgages 

Essex based mortgage broker CLS Money has launched a new service called Talk Mortgages. Customers...

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...

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Paragon appoints Fulford to lead specialist buy-to-let lending

Paragon Bank has promoted Matt Fulford to head of specialist lending in its mortgages...

Council tax reform tops homeowners’ Budget priorities

More than a third of homeowners and prospective buyers want the government to review...

My Legal Club adds three firms to conveyancing panel

My Legal Club has appointed three law firms to its conveyancing panel as it...

Gatehouse Capital strengthens Scottish broker support with new appointment

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

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