Mortgages

Sainsbury’s Bank partners with Mortgage Intelligence

Mortgage Intelligence has become the latest mortgage partner for Sainsbury’s Bank. David Crooke, head of intermediary...

New 3.99% self-build deal from the Saffron

The Saffron Building Society has launched a new lower rate, self-build mortgage at 3.99%. The...

L&G Mortgage Club sees 1,000 registrations for SmartrCriteria after seven days

Legal & General Mortgage Club has passed 1,000 broker registrations in the first week...

Barclays makes 95% LTV and BTL rate cuts

Barclays is making changes to selected products within its 95% LTV (including cashback) purchase...

TFC partners with Zephyr Homeloans

TFC Homeloans has adding new buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans to its lender panel. Recently launched by...

Hanley Economic BS to push self-build throughout 2019

The Hanley Economic Building Society has begun a 2019 self-build campaign as it seeks...

The Teachers makes buy-to-let criteria changes

The Teachers Building Society has changed its buy-to-let criteria, including amendments to maximum age and...

Little movement in rates and costs of mortgages over past quarter

Mortgage Brain’s latest product data analysis has found that two, three and five year...

The Mortgage Lender expands onsite underwriting team

The Mortgage Lender has expanded its onsite underwriting team with the appointment of Diane...

Pepper Money makes sales hire covering the North East

Pepper Money has appointed a new regional development manager for the North East of...

TMA Club to offer Criteria Hub sourcing

TMA Club has added Criteria Hub to its panel of services. Criteria Hub provides advisers...

Newcastle Intermediaries pays new product transfer proc fee

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched a product transfer process paying brokers a procuration fee of...

TSB to sponsor AMI dinner

TSB is to sponsor the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries' (AMI) dinner this year. The event...

Should smaller firms be treated differently?

One of the key positives for the mortgage advice sector – and specifically in...

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...

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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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