Mortgages

The Saffron introduces retirement downsizing mortgage

The Saffron Building Society has unveiled a new ‘Lending into Retirement Downsizing’ mortgage. The mortgage...

Broker market share will increase in 2019: IMLA

IMLA has predicted that total gross mortgage lending, loans for house purchase and remortgaging...

Networks to hold later life lending seminars

HLPartnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) are hosting two seminars focussing on Later...

The Hinckley & Rugby adopts Danish digital solution

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has gone live with a digital system developed...

The Leeds unveils no fee fixed rate RIO mortgage

The Leeds Building Society has launched a no fee fixed rate Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Fluent Money Group passes 250 headcount

Fluent Money Group has reported a significant increase in personnel, with now over 250 employees...

NatWest IS unveils secure document upload function

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has launched a new secure document upload facility designed to help speed...

TSB cuts rates on fixed deals

TSB has reduced interest rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on its two-year,...

Criteria enhancements behind self-employed lending rise at Pepper

Pepper Money has reported that it completed 87% more self-employed mortgages in 2018 than...

Bankhall unveils Senior Managers & Certification Regime support hub

Bankhall has launched a new support hub covering the Senior Managers & Certification Regime...

Nationwide reports sharp rise in net mortgage lending

In its latest interim statement, the Nationwide Building Society has reported a rise in...

The Mansfield Building Society introduces new holiday let mortgage

The Mansfield Building Society has launched a new holiday buy-to-let product specifically for borrowers...

MPC keeps Bank Rate at 0.75% amid gloomy forecasts

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to hold the...

Head of national accounts promotion at Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has announced the promotion of Grant Hendry to the position of...

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

Sirius Finance formalises wealth management referral arrangement

Sirius Finance has entered into a referral partnership with JRM Wealth Management, enabling its...

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...

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