Mortgages

Kent Reliance revises new build proposition

Kent Reliance has made important changes to its mortgage criteria including reducing minimum loan...

43% of customers opt for a switch product with existing lender

Mortgage intermediaries play an important role in encouraging customers to review their options and...

Seven new BDMs for Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for Intermediaries is adding seven additional business development managers (BDMs) to its team...

Mortgages for Business gets new managing director

Steve Olejnik has been appointed managing director of Mortgages for Business. He takes over from...

The Nationwide announces mortgage and savings rate changes

The Nationwide Building Society has made changes to savings and mortgage rates in response...

Legal & General Home Finance partners with Virgin Money

Legal & General Home Finance has agreed a new five-year partnership agreement with Virgin...

The Leeds’ CEO to retire in 2019

The Leeds Building Society has announced that its chief executive officer Peter Hill will...

MPC raises Bank Rate to 0.75%

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

LendInvest removes debenture and cuts ICR assessment rates for BTL

LendInvest has dropped its debenture and floating charge amongst a series of changes to...

Keith Street joins The Mortgage Lender

Keith Street has joined The Mortgage Lender as its chief commercial officer (CCO). Street...

Pepper makes DMP rate and criteria changes

Pepper Money has introduced improved criteria on its Debt Management Plan mortgage range and...

The Hinckley & Rugby joins Legal & General panel

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has  joined the panel at Legal & General...

Buy to Let Club offering Precise exclusives

Precise Mortgages has launched two new buy-to-let fixed rate products exclusively through Buy to...

Foundation Home Loans unveils its lowest ever fixed rates

Foundation Home Loans has introduced its lowest ever fixed rates with its new ‘Summer...

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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