Mortgages

New roles created as Mark Graves leaves SBG

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced that Mark Graves, managing director at Sesame Network...

Together raises maximum mortgage term to 40 years

Together has extended the maximum term on its residential mortgage products to 40 years...

SVR borrowers could save £229 a month moving to a 10-year fix

Borrowers on their lender’s Standard Variable Rate (SVR) could save over £25,000 in mortgage...

Landbay expands distribution

Landbay has agreed a new partnership with the Sesame Network and PMS Mortgage Club....

LendInvest revises buy-to-let range

LendInvest has launched a new five-year fixed rate product as part of changes to its...

Assetz Capital partners with Connect for Intermediaries

Connect for Intermediaries has become the first network to distribute Assetz Capital's products. Assetz Capital...

Two new locations for Mortgage Vision events

Mortgage Brain has launched this year’s series of Mortgage Vision events. Now in its ninth...

MFB refreshes website

Mortgages for Business has announced the launch of its new look web site at www.mortgagesforbusiness.co.uk. The...

MBE to host L&G Mortgage Club and FIBA seminars 

The Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) at the Barbican on 10 October will include a specialist...

The Mortgage Lender appoints London BDM

The Mortgage Lender commercial team 20-strong with the appointment of David Venn The Mortgage Lender...

NatWest launches Help to Buy shared equity remortgage range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is launching tomorrow (19 September) a new range of Help to...

TMA appoints heads of operations and sales  

TMA Club has announced the appointments of Louise Evans as its head of operations and...

MortgageGym completes £3.8m funding round

Mortgage robo-adviser MortgageGym has completed a funding round of £3.8m from investors, including LSL...

The Mansfield unveils RIO mortgages with added drawdown facility

The Mansfield Building Society is launching its Retirement Interest Only (RIO) proposition with two...

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...

Latest news

Halifax extends Club Lloyds mortgage discounts to broker customers

Halifax Intermediaries is introducing discounted mortgage products for eligible Club Lloyds customers, giving brokers...

ModaMortgages adds eight buy-to-let products at 80% LTV

ModaMortgages has introduced eight additional buy-to-let products at 80% loan-to-value (LTV), extending its options...

House price growth slows for fourth consecutive month

Average UK house prices increased by just 0.9% in the year to August as...

Accord reduces buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 69bps

Accord Mortgages is reducing selected buy-to-let fixed rates by up to 69 basis points...

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