Mortgages

Halifax Intermediaries reintroduces £1,000 cashback offer

Halifax Intermediaries has relaunched its £1,000 cashback offer for first-time buyers and home movers. In...

Clear your desks on Friday, says Brightstar

Brightstar Financial is calling on brokers to clear their desks of problem cases this...

Secure Trust Bank introduces new zero product fee range

Secure Trust Bank has cut prices across 70 mortgage products and introduced a new...

Technology and the ‘frictionless mortgage’ theme for L&G conference

The Legal & General Mortgage Club has now announced the 2018 Mortgage Club Autumn Conference,...

New finance broker completed £2.5m in August

Your Expert Group completed on £2.5m of loan finance during August, despite not having fully...

Record lending levels for Together

Together has reported record levels of lending in its results for the year ended...

Keystone’s buy-to-let deal with Paratus AMC comes to an end

Keystone’s funding contract with Paratus AMC has ended after three years, originating close to...

Accord reduces buy-to-let rates

Accord has reduced buy-to-let rates by up to 0.25 percentage points. New deals include a...

‘Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor’ tops criteria searches

Knowledge Bank latest Criteria Activity Tracker has revealed the most search criteria by brokers during...

Barclays makes mortgage rate reductions

Barclays is reducing the rates on some of its mortgage products tomorrow (7 September). Changes...

Senior hires support Pepper’s banking licence plan

Pepper Money is to create a new entity to seek authorisation for a banking...

Kent Reliance cuts five-year fixed BTL rates

Kent Reliance is making rate reductions to its five-year fixed buy-to-let mortgages for 75%...

Spike in remortgage completions ahead of rate hike

76% of remortgage applications via intermediaries resulted in a completion during the second quarter...

Sainsbury’s Bank makes fixed rate mortgage changes

Sainsbury's Bank has made changes to its residential product range as well as the...
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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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