Mortgages

Second steppers stuck on the ladder

Lloyds Bank has revealed that six in 10 second steppers think it’s harder to...

Foundation Home Loans offers new three-year buy-to-let fixes

Foundation Home Loans has launched new three-year fixed rates in its buy-to-let range. The limited-edition...

OMS integrates with Kensington Mortgages

One Mortgage System (OMS) has undertaken a full system integration with Kensington Mortgages to...

Secure Trust Bank enters Right to Buy market

Secure Trust Bank Mortgages has unveiled a range of mortgages for tenants using the...

New buy-to-let products and fees from The Mortgage Lender

The Mortgage Lender has made changes to its buy-to-let fees and added new rates to...

Barclays Mortgages revamps product offering

Barclays Mortgages is introducing some new products and making rate reductions across its residential,...

Complete FS hires its first business support manager

Complete FS has appointed Sean Latchem to the new role of business support manager. Latchem...

Growth in number of approvals to small deposit borrowers

First-time buyers and existing homeowners capitalised on low rates across the market last month. The...

The Nottingham unveils branch-based mortgage advice – via video

The Nottingham Building Society is now offering a branch-based video mortgage advice service. As part...

Treasury says finding solutions for mortgage prisoners “a top priority”

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen MP,  has written to the Treasury...

Retirement lending expected to drive specialist mortgage market growth

Nearly 80% of mortgage intermediaries expect lending into retirement to be the fastest growing...

Remortgaging levels out

UK Finance has revealed that there were 29,400 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

The Marsden offers RIO mortgages

The Marsden Building Society has become the latest lender to move into the Retirement Interest...

Precise’s parent sees 27% increase in loan book

Charter Court Financial Services, the group which includes specialist lender Precise Mortgages, has reported...

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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