Mortgages

Platform cuts rates on 60-90% LTV mortgages

Platform has reduced rates on all mainstream mortgages of two and five year fixed...

Knowledge Bank unveils Criteria Activity Tracker

Knowledge Bank has launched a new monthly Criteria Activity Tracker to keep brokers and...

Vida recruits trio of key account managers

Vida Homeloans has expanded its sales team with three new key account managers. Sarah Hartwell joins...

Coventry for Intermediaries lowers 10-year rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced rates across its range of 10-year fixed residential mortgages. Rates...

TMA supporting Take Five fraud prevention campaign

TMA Club has announced the launch of it is new anti-fraud webpage. In conjunction...

LendInvest bolsters buy-to-let team

LendInvest has grown its buy-to-let team with a number of in-house and field based hires. The...

Limited company structures becoming increasingly popular

38% of landlords will use limited companies to buy properties over the next year...

Metro Bank in widespread range refresh

Metro Bank has refreshed rates across its residential, buy-to-let and large loan ranges. In its...

The Leeds’ Welcome mortgage now includes shared ownership

The Leeds Building Society has extended availability of its Welcome mortgage to include shared ownership mortgages. The...

The Ipswich launches later life mortgage range

The Ipswich Building Society has unveiled a mortgage range for those borrowing into later...

TML apprentice graduates to BDM

Former apprentice Charlie Stack has been appointed as business development manager (BDM) at The...

NatWest range changes include new semi-exclusives

NatWest is reintroducing two-year semi-exclusive deals for both purchases and remortgages. There are also rate...

Fleet recruits North East BDM

Fleet Mortgages has appointed a new business development manager (BDM) covering the North East. ...

Paradigm partners with Hanley Intermediaries

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced a new partnership with Hanley Intermediaries, the intermediary lending...

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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