Mortgages

Mortgage costs back on the increase

Residential mortgage costs are back on the rise after two successive quarters reporting a number...

Accord offers £1k cashback for high LTV borrowers

Accord Mortgages has increased cashback to £1,000 for borrowers at 90% and 95% loan...

UTB expands its mortgages & bridging team

United Trust Bank has promoted Mike Walters to the position of head of sales for...

New BDMs at NatWest Intermediary Solutions

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed two new business development managers (BDMs). Rhys Powell joins as...

FSE Midlands: FSA final report not expected until Spring

The mortgage industry should not expect the FCA’s Mortgages Market Study Final Report and...

FSE Midlands: landlords needs adviser help over HMO licensing changes

Advisers have been urged to help those landlords who may be receiving letters from...

FSE Midlands: 2018 has been product transfer year

2018 has been dubbed ‘the year of the product transfer’ by participants in ‘The...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.75%

The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has voted unanimously to maintain the...

New chair for Kensington Mortgages

Jayne Almond is to succeed Tim Breedon as chair of Kensington Mortgages. In additional, she will...

No maximum age for Hinckley & Rugby mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has removed any maximum age limit for the...

The Stafford Railway joins TMA’s lender panel

TMA Club has welcomed the Stafford Railway Building Society to its lender panel. TMA’s members...

Legal & General Mortgage Club appoints key relationship manager

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced that Clare Beardmore is joining from the...

Social media changing attitudes to home improvements

Brits are now staying in their property for nearly two decades, with 54% of...

Bluestone Mortgages updates IVA criteria

Bluestone Mortgages has improved its criteria for customers with an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)...
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The two-year fix isn’t advice. It’s a diary entry

5.98%. That was the average two-year fix on 5 October, according to Moneyfacts, the highest since mid-December 2023. The average five-year fix: 6.00%. On those...

Alternative strategies for buying in high-growth property areas

For first-time buyers a Lifetime ISA can be a useful way to build a house deposit, with a 25% government bonus on eligible savings...

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...

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Employers struggle to engage staff with financial wellbeing support

Only 12% of employees have used financial wellbeing support provided by their employer, despite...
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Defaqto extends Matrix 360 to protection and wealth providers

Defaqto has broadened its Matrix 360 market intelligence platform to cover wealth management and...
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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...

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