Mortgages

Pepper Money cuts two-year fixed rates

Pepper Money has cut the price on seven of its two-year fixed rate residential...

Complete FS expands onsite underwriting capability

Complete FS has announced that Magellan Homeloans and Vida Homeloans are joining its growing...

The Skipton expands mortgage offering for Lifetime ISA customers

The Skipton Building Society has widened the range of mortgage products available exclusively to...

Magellan Homeloans moves into Scotland

Magellan Homeloans has launched its range of residential mortgages to all brokers operating in...

Average first-time buyer gross household income is £42k

UK Finance has reported that there were 35,500 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Castle Trust appoints new business development exec

Castle Trust has appointed Jack Saunders as a business development executive. He will provide brokers...

Accord cuts down on ID red tape

Accord Mortgages has scrapped the requirement for copies of identification documents to be certified...

FSE Midlands seminar programme revealed

The finalised seminar programme for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Midlands has been published. FSE Midlands...

Aldermore shakes up its residential and buy-to-let criteria

Aldermore has revamped residential and buy-to-let mortgage offerings. It has made the following changes to...

There’s still much work to do

If a week is a long time in politics – and given recent events...

Skipton International improves expat buy-to-let offering

Skipton International is to include the conveyancing fees of both the lender and the...

LendInvest cuts buy-to-let rates and fees

LendInvest has reduced rates and product fees across its buy-to-let product range. The pay rate...

Foundation Home Loans joins TMA Club panel

TMA Club has added Foundation Home Loans to its panel of lenders. Foundation Home Loans...

Kensington Mortgages improves new build service proposition

Kensington Mortgages has revamped its service promise for all new build mortgage products across...

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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