Mortgages

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...

Squaring the long-term conundrum

In a market which has tended to work on short-term delivery, with a focus...

Boardroom changes at Mortgage Advice Bureau

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has announced the retirement of David Preece as an executive director...

Platform cuts rates on all 95% LTV deals

Platform has reduced interest rates on all 95% LTV mortgages by up to 0.10...

Accord Mortgages increases maximum LTV

Accord Mortgages is extending its remortgaging options up to 95% LTV. From tomorrow (22 January)...

The Skipton revamps mortgage offering

The Skipton Building Society has launched a number of refreshed products for residential purchase...

November rise in first-time buyer numbers

UK Finance has reported that there were 36,200 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Positive end to 2018 for mortgage approvals

The latest Mortgage Monitor from residential chartered surveyors e.surv found that there were 66,390...

Mortgage Brain appoints national account manager quartet

Mortgage Brain has finalised the appointment of four new national account managers. Matt Surridge, a former...

TSB reintroduces a number of mortgage products

TSB has reintroduced a number of products to its mortgage range. These products include the...

Network pair adopt SmartrCriteria

Mortgage networks, HLPartnership and Mortgage Support Network, have revealed that their members will have...

NatWest unveils residential and BTL rate cuts

NatWest is making rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential and buy-to-let products. Mark...

Magellan joins Buy to Let Club panel

Buy to Let Club has expanded its distribution panel with the addition of specialist...

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

LendInvest recruits Matt Taylor to lead mortgage sales

LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary...

Income limits could exclude many London buyers from proposed deposit scheme

More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could...

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...

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