Mortgages

Stabilisation ahead for buy-to-let market?

Mortgage Brain has reported that while the cost of buy-to-let mortgages remain at record...

Knowledge Bank launches ‘World Cup special’

Knowledge Bank, the broker criteria search system, has launched a World Cup special, offering...

Bank of Ireland UK expands intermediary sales team

Bank of Ireland UK has recruited six new faces to its intermediary sales team...

Complete FS improves in-house direct lender-broker interface

Complete FS has supplemented its existing in house underwriting service and on any working...

Technology should cut down “horrendous” paper trail

Brokers attending yesterday's FSE Wales exhibition heard that the increased use of technology solutions,...

TMW cuts five-year rates

The Mortgage Works has cut its five-year fixed rate mortgage products by up to 0.50...

DPR Group acquires online mortgage broker

Mortgage technology provider DPR has acquired online mortgage broker Burrow. The move follows on from...

Brightstar to hold specialist webinar

Brightstar Financial has launched a new specialist lending webinar in partnership with Secure Trust...

The Leeds revamps fixed rate range

The Leeds Building Society has cut rates on mortgages across all loan to value...

3mc launches Help to Buy exclusives with Precise Mortgages

3mc has launched a range of exclusive Help to Buy products with Precise Mortgages. The...

Accord offers let to buy market for first time landlords

Accord Buy To Let has expanded its offering for first time landlords after seeing...

Kent Reliance extends day one remortgage option

Kent Reliance has announced that the option to remortgage a property from Day One will...

Vida Homeloans joins Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor market

Vida Homeloans has launched its Helping Hand product to assist parents in getting their...

Brokers frustrated by lenders changing their minds

LendInvest surveyed brokers at the NACFB Commercial Finance Expo in Birmingham last week to discover...

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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