Mortgages

NatWest announces rate increases

NatWest is introducing tomorrow (12 December) rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential...

AMI seeks new sponsor for annual dinner

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) is looking to find a new sponsor for...

Buy-to-let’s share of lending at lowest level since 2012

The Bank of England has reported that during the third quarter of 2018, the...

The Hanley Economic launches 1.58% two-year fix

The Hanley Economic Building Society has unveiled a two-year residential fixed rate deal with...

Shared ownership ‘misunderstood and underused’ by millennials

YouGov national research commissioned by the Leeds Building Society has found millennials aged 18-24...

UTB appoints head of product development

Simon Burnell, formerly director of sales at Vida Homeloans, has joined United Trust Bank...

TMA Club unveils YouTube channel

TMA Club has launched a Youtube channel called TMA VISION, providing partner and provider...

Paragon’s eTech partnership to aid portfolio landlords

Paragon has teamed up with property data, analytics and solutions provider eTech, to roll...

CSF competes first Precise refurb BTL case

Crystal Specialist Finance (CSF) has finalised its first Precise Mortgages’ Refurb Buy to Let...

Barclays makes widespread purchase and remortgage rate cuts

Barclays has made changes to its residential fixed rates, including the launch of new...

Two new FTB deals unveiled by the Saffron

The Saffron Building Society has introduced two new reduced rate mortgages for first-time buyers. The...

FCA sees inconsistencies in firms’ arrears management practices

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published findings on how mortgage lenders treat customers...

Foundation Home Loans updates product offering

Foundation Home Loans has made changes across its buy-to-let and residential ranges. The minimum loan...

PMS offers bespoke compliance service for members

PMS Mortgage Club has launched a compliance solution for directly authorised mortgage and protection...

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

Marshall and Cooke join Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with...

Jane Benjamin to lead Crystal’s specialist finance network and club

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and...

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...

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