Mortgages

RBS sees profits rise to £1.6bn

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported profit of £1.622 billion. In the in a quarter...

Precise Mortgages appoints new key account manager

Precise Mortgages has appointed Jonathan Mann as a new key account manager. Mann will work...

New RIO mortgages from the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has introduced three new Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage deals. The...

The Mansfield cuts Versatility discount rates

The Mansfield Building Society has cut rates across its Versatility discounted mortgage product range...

Brexit uncertainty having negative effect on housing market

Paragon’s latest Financial Adviser and Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index has found that mortgage advisers expect...

Legal & General Mortgage Club hires pair of new key relationship managers

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced two new additions to its team of key...

LendInvest expands lending operations team

LendInvest has reported a record month of signed applications in January 2019 with 428...

Skipton updates contractor lending criteria

The Skipton Building Society is introducing new lending criteria for its contractor clients. The...

Mortgage Brain sees 2,000 customer boost

Mortgage Brain acquired 2,000 new customers during 2018 with a number national networks, corporate...

Rise in number of loans to small deposit borrowers

There were 66,350 mortgages approved in January 2019, according to seasonally adjusted figures from E.surv. The...

SBG and Twenty7Tec agree technology partnership

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has teamed up with mortgage technology firm Twenty7Tec to provide...

The Marsden launches online platform for intermediaries

The Marsden Building Society has introduced a new intermediary online platform. It is for mortgage...

TMA Club to hold its first ever national conference

TMA Club will be hosting its first ever national conference at the International Convention Centre...

The Mansfield launches new expat buy-to-let product

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new buy-to-let mortgage product with no completion...

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...

PROFILES