Mortgages

The Leeds unveils discount deals from 0.99%

The Leeds Building Society has added new deals to its variable rate residential range,...

Magellan introduces buy-to-let affordability tool

Magellan Homeloans has developed an online tool designed to simplify finding suitable funding options...

Precise Mortgages appoints new BDM for Scotland

Precise Mortgages has appointed a new dedicated business development manager (BDM) for Scotland. The specialist...

Complete FS to hold National Specialist Lending Forum

Hampshire based packager and distributor Complete FS is hosting a specialist lending forum covering...

The Vernon BS unveils new buy-to-let deals

The Vernon Building Society has launched a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage and increased...

The Nationwide cuts rates at 95% LTV

The Nationwide Building Society has cut selected fixed and tracker mortgage rates at 95%...

Over 1,000 people commit to Mortgage Sleep Out

The number of people in the mortgage industry who have pledged to spend the...

The Leeds supports shared ownership stamp duty cut

The Budget’s Stamp Duty cut for shared ownership first time buyers has been welcomed...

Accord adds new fixed rates to buy-to-let proposition

Accord Buy To Let has introduced a number of two and three-year fixed rate...

Keystone Property Finance joins L&G mortgage panel

Keystone Property Finance has joined the mortgage panel of Legal & General, giving members...

BUDGET 2018: Help to Buy extended

The government announced in yesterday’s Budget that Help to Buy will be extended until...

Skipton’s Paul Darwin to retire

Paul Darwin, director of intermediary relationships at the Skipton Building Society, will be retiring...

Prospective first time buyers want empty homes addressed in the Budget

34% of people looking to buy their first home want the government to introduce...

TMA offers exclusive self-employed deal

TMA Club has announced an exclusive two-year discount deal for self-employed borrowers with the...

COMMENT

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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Alternative strategies for buying in high-growth property areas

For first-time buyers a Lifetime ISA can be a useful way to build a...

Employers struggle to engage staff with financial wellbeing support

Only 12% of employees have used financial wellbeing support provided by their employer, despite...

Defaqto extends Matrix 360 to protection and wealth providers

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

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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