Mortgages

Investec Private Bank cuts variable and fixed rates

Investec Private Bank has cut rates within the 80%-85% LTV bracket for both fixed...

Buy-to-let mortgage market remains unsettled

Mortgage Brain has reported "mixed movement" in the cost of buy-to-let products over the...

Together’s loan book tops £3bn

Together has reported pre-tax profits of £30.4m and cash receipts of £414.7m for the quarter to...

Nationwide hit by profit slump

The Nationwide Building Society has reported that statutory profit for the first six months...

TBMC joins Magellan’s packager panel

Magellan Homeloans has added TBMC to its packager panel. The move expands the availability of...

The Leeds unveils buy-to-let variable mortgages from 1.14% 

The Leeds Building Society has launched two new discounted buy-to-let mortgages. The new discount variable...

New lending up 11% at Paragon

Paragon’s Mortgages has reported an 8% increase in underlying profit before tax to £157...

Together strengthens Buy to Let Club partnership

Specialist lender Together has expanded its partnership with Buy to let Club. Buy to let...

FTBs “exploring every available route to get on the ladder”

A survey from the Nottingham Building Society of people looking to buy their first home...

TSB unveils product transfer service

TSB has introduced Rate Switch, its new product transfer service. It was launched earlier than...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts 95% LTV rates

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced its rates on a selection of two and five year...

Hanley Economic BS offers self-build and residential in Scotland

The Hanley Economic Building Society has extended its self-build and residential mortgage offerings into...

Accord Mortgages reviews buy-to-let cashback offering

Accord Mortgages is now offering an extra £250 cashback on selected two-year-fixed 60% and...

Paradigm CEO invests in switching platform

Bob Hunt, CEO of Paradigm Mortgage Services, has invested an undisclosed sum in Dashly,...

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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