Mortgages

‘Pre-summer boost’ seen for UK mortgage market

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,200 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

New Accord buy-to-let range includes cashback

Accord Buy To Let is reducing rates and adding cashback to selected mortgages for...

Mortgages for Business pledges to improve gender diversity

Mortgages for Business is among 67 new signatory companies to sign up to HM...

Paragon extends portfolio mortgage products to Scottish market

Paragon is expanding its buy-to-let mortgage offering in Scotland to include mortgage products for...

Foundation Home Loans appoints regional account managers

Foundation Home Loans has expanded its sales team with the appointment of Victoria Pearce...

Vernon and Tenet Group in distribution deal

Vernon Intermediaries and Tenet Group have partnered to provide Tenet’s advisers with access the...

Accord cuts 95% LTV rates

Accord Mortgages has cut rates by up to 0.40 percentage points on two and...

Borrowers could save up to £6,500 by remortgaging

Legal & General Mortgage Club has claimed that borrowers on a Standard Variable Rate...

The West Brom unveils remortgages for Help to Buy borrowers

The West Brom has introduced remortgage deals specifically for customers who purchased their home...

Vida unveils new free valuation residential deal

Vida Homeloans has revised its Fee Saver residential mortgage offering. Properties up to £500,000 now...

New 10-year fixes from Lloyds Bank

Lloyds Bank has introduced a new range of 10-year fixes for remortgage customers and...

Foundation Home Loans unveils short-term let exclusive

Foundation Home Loans has unveiled a new short-term let product, as part of the...

Santander cuts slew of mortgage rates

Santander has revealed new mortgage deals available to customers, both purchasing and remortaging with...

Secure Trust Bank offers 90% LTV exclusives

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has launched new products at 90% LTV, exclusively with specialist...

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...

Latest news

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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