Mortgages

BM Solutions cuts fees

BM Solutions has made changes to a number of its mortgage and valuations fees. A...

Platform cuts interest rates on 95% LTV mortgages

Platform has reduced interest rates on select 95% LTV mortgages by up to 0.15...

Accord recruits new regional sales manager

Accord Mortgages has appointed Claire Chick as a new regional sales manager. Chick (pictured) joins...

Bluestone Mortgages unveils new Help to Buy range

Bluestone Mortgages has launched a new Help to Buy range, covering the England and...

Many suffer from misapprehension that they can’t get a mortgage

A study, by mortgage advice website Online Mortgage Advisor, has found that thousands of...

83% of borrowers consult a broker when remortgaging

LMS has reported that remortgaging volumes reached an eight-year high in July. Although transaction levels...

Citizens Advice super-complaint includes mortgages and GI

Citizens Advice has submitted a super-complaint to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) calling...

Accord Mortgages introduces revised new build proposition

Accord Mortgages is rolling out a new approach to new-build lending to all brokers. The...

Hampshire Trust completes its largest specialist deal to date

Hampshire Trust Bank's (HTB) specialist mortgages division has provided a £15m loan to a...

Landlords expect portfolio values to soften as optimism remains subdued

Paragon’s latest PRS Trends research has found that the average market value of landlords’...

Your Expert Group launches Academy in anticipation of Scottish lending boom

The Scottish specialist lending market is set to double in size next year due...

New team members for Complete FS

Complete FS has appointed two new staff members to its buy-to-let and residential teams. The...

Just Mortgages’ self-employed division on course to double in a year

Just Mortgages' self-employed division has increased by 73% since December 2017. It expects the division...

TMW cuts selected fixed and tracker rates

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates for selected two-year fixed and tracker mortgages by...
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COMMENT

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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Help to Buy

Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

Restoring Help to Buy would strengthen developers’ sales without solving the underlying affordability crisis...
Income protection

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

More than a third of UK employees remain financially fragile despite being in work,...
Repricing

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...
Appointments

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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