Mortgages

New website for Sirius Property Finance

Sirius Property Finance has launched its new website. The the high net worth and corporate...

Kent Reliance appoints trio

Kent Reliance has announced the appointment of two regional sales managers and a senior...

New two-year deal from Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has launched a new two-year, fixed-rate product within its standard range. The new product...

JLM Mortgage Services appoints COO

Network JLM Mortgage Services has announced the appointment of Daniel Leach as its new...

Together appoints new BDM for London

Together has hired a new business development manager (BDM) for London. Sophie Guest (pictured) has...

Legal & General Mortgage Club events calendar published

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced its 2018 calendar of events. The half...

Recruitment drive at Vida Homeloans

Vida Homeloans is recruiting three new roles and promoting three senior sales people.  Sally Wright,...

Limited company BTL purchases outstrip remortgages

The latest Mortgages for Business Limited Company Buy-to-let Index has revealed that in the final quarter...

New self-employed exclusive from Newcastle Intermediaries

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched another self-employed mortgage exclusive. The two year fixed product at 2.20%...

New lower follow-on rate from Santander

Santander has announced that mortgages applied for from 23 January onwards will transfer to...

Lending restrictions top challenge for commercial brokers

While commercial mortgage brokers surveyed by Shawbrook Bank cite Brexit as one of the...

Fleet Mortgages’ lending shifts towards portfolio landlords

Fleet Mortgages has reported notable quarterly growth in the amount of portfolio landlord applications it...

JLM network to offer ‘robo proposition’

JLM Mortgage Services has become the first mortgage network to launch the first stage of...

Average homemover deposit close to £200k in London

Lloyds Bank has reported that the number of people moving home in the UK...

COMMENT

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...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Latest news

Landlords exploit softer market with lowball offers

More than half of buy-to-let investor offers were at least 10% below the original...

Asking prices suffer biggest August fall since 2018

The average asking price of a newly listed home fell by 2% in August,...

Instamo launches automated post-submission mortgage tool

Instamo has launched FastAdmin, a post-submission automation service designed to reduce the administrative work...

HMLR and OS data tie-up targets faster property transactions

HM Land Registry (HMLR) and Ordnance Survey (OS) have agreed a three-year collaboration intended...

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