Mortgages

Profits and mortgage book growth for the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has announced its financial results for the year ending 30...

Mortgage technology firm appoints sales director

Eligible, a technology firm automating customer retention for the mortgage industry, has appointed ex-partner...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints senior business development manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Chris Lamming as senior business development manager...

The Marsden BS offers bridging alternative

The Marsden Building Society has introduced a new short-term lending solution which offers an...

12-year high for first-time buyer numbers

UK Finance has revealed that there were 370,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Gatehouse Bank appoints director of home finance distribution

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Roger Evans as director of home finance distribution. Evans...

Skipton International extends UK buy-to-let mortgages to foreign nationals

Skipton International is extending its UK buy- to-let mortgage proposition to include applications from...

Residential and Reward rate cuts from Barclays

Barclays is making a number of rate reductions across its Residential and Reward products. These...

The Hanley Economic launches 1.84% no fee two-year BTL fix

The Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a no fee two-year fixed rate buy-to-let...

Smartr365 launches application workflow tool

Smartr365 has launched a new MortgageKanban feature. MortgageKanban is a scheduling and workflow management...

The Nottingham unveils RIO mortgages

The Nottingham Building Society has added three Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgages to its...

Kensington cuts residential rates by up to 25bps

Kensington Mortgages has introduced new rates across its residential mortgage range. The specialist lender has...

Secure Trust Bank confirms decision to end new mortgage lending

Secure Trust Bank (STB) has confirmed that it will cease origination of new Mortgage...

Mortgage Advice Bureau wins at learning awards

Dave Bedlow, Mortgage Advice Bureau’s head of learning & development, was recognised at the...

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

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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