Mortgages

The Mansfield Building Society appoints national development manager

The Mansfield Building Society has recruited Paul Lewis to the role of national development...

Joint MD appointed for HL Partnership and Mortgage Support Network

The managing director of Mortgage Support Network (MSN), Shaun Almond, has been appointed to...

The Ipswich expands later life mortgage offering

The Ipswich Building Society has bolstered its later life mortgage range with the launch...

Atom plans first securitisation

Atom bank has completed pricing this week on its first residential mortgage-backed securitisation, Elvet...

Complete FS offers the Tipton & Coseley’s RIO product

Complete FS has added the Tipton & Coseley Building Society’s RIO product to its...

NatWest improves buy-to-let proposition

NatWest had made changes to its buy-to-let calculator and wider offering for landlords. It has...

Brightstar launches interest-only & later life lending guide

Brightstar Financial has published a guide to interest-only mortgages and later life lending to...

Sharp rise in number of lenders offering limited company BTL

The number of buy-to-let lenders lending to limited companies has increased by 47% over...

Bluestone Mortgages extends Help to Buy range to Wales

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the extension of its Help to Buy range in Wales. Last...

Mortgage approvals at seven-month low

UK Finance has revealed that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in September...

Newcastle Intermediaries broadens interest-only offering

Newcastle Intermediaries is expanding its interest-only offer to its range of residential mortgages, including...

3mc offers Pepper exclusives

3mc has unveiled new packager exclusives from Pepper Money and now also has an...

New CEO for Leek United BS

Leek United has announced the appointment of Andrew Healy as the Society’s new chief...

Fleet Mortgages appoints national sales manager

Fleet Mortgages has announced the promotion of Graham Le Bas to the position of...

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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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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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