Mortgages

NatWest launches Help to Buy shared equity remortgage range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is launching tomorrow (19 September) a new range of Help to...

TMA appoints heads of operations and sales  

TMA Club has announced the appointments of Louise Evans as its head of operations and...

MortgageGym completes £3.8m funding round

Mortgage robo-adviser MortgageGym has completed a funding round of £3.8m from investors, including LSL...

The Mansfield unveils RIO mortgages with added drawdown facility

The Mansfield Building Society is launching its Retirement Interest Only (RIO) proposition with two...

Bluestone Mortgages makes key sales appointments

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the recruitment of several new staff members across its sales...

Fourth birthday for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages is celebrating its fourth birthday having launched on this day in 2014. The buy-to-let and...

The Leeds cuts rate on RIO mortgage

The Leeds Building Society has cut its five year fixed rate Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Paymentshield to hold webinar on learning from Netflix

General insurance firm Paymentshield is hosting a webinar on the lessons that advisers can...

Secure Trust Bank unveils its cheapest ever mortgages

With rates starting from 2.04% on its new STB0 product tier, Secure Trust Bank is...

Pity those stuck in a mortgage Twilight Zone

It’s a strange old world isn’t it? For instance, I often wonder what those...

Productivity and sales up at New Leaf

Mortgage, protection and wealth network New Leaf Distribution has revealed that its recent 12-month’s...

Together increases Charles Street securitisation to £1.25bn

Together Financial Services has refinanced its revolving Charles Street securitisation programme (CABS) by increasing the...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

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

New Leicester offices for Mortgage Support Network

Leicester based mortgage network Mortgage Support Network (MSN) has announced its move into new...

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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Revived Help to Buy would inflate prices: Lamdin

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

One in three workers financially fragile despite being employed

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

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...

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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