Mortgages

L&G Mortgage Club expands Shawbrook offering

Legal & General Mortgage Club has added two Shawbrook Bank products to its offering. The...

Accord refreshes residential mortgage range

Accord Mortgages has reduced rates by up to 0.23 percentage points on 15 mortgages and...

Bank rate rise boosts approval levels

The number of approvals increased between October and November, following an increase in the...

New processing platform launches

One Mortgage System (OMS), which has launched today, is claiming to offer mortgage brokers...

Transformative year for the remortgage market

LMS has reported that, over the last 12 months, the remortgage market has transformed...

Think smart for a successful 2018

The year finally begins to draw to an end and 2017 has without doubt...

Accord make sweeping buy-to-let changes

Accord Mortgages has reduced rates by up to 0.35 percentage points on three quarters...

Diverse Mortgage and Protection adopts Mortgage Brain

Diverse Mortgage and Protection has selected Mortgage Brain as its preferred partner for the...

New product manager for Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has appointed Tom Jacob as product manager. He joins from Pepper...

The Hinckley & Rugby sets up referrals committee

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has established a system to give complex cases...

New ex-pat BTL Aldermore deal for 3mc

3mc has unveiled a buy-to-let mortgage deal designed for use by British expats, funded...

TSB cuts shared ownership and shared equity fixed rates

TSB’s two-year fixed rates for shared ownership and shared equity borrowers have been reduced...

Brokers ‘seeking greater criteria clarity’

Criteria Hub has reported rising numbers of criteria searches of its database by brokers...

New three-year fixes from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society is adding new three-year fixed rate purchase and remortgage products...

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

FCA bans CEO over fake €200m bond portfolio

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined and banned two former Blue Horizon Asset...

Pivotal reports 121% growth in second charge lending

Pivotal has reported a 121% year-on-year increase in second charge lending through its Believe...

ModaMortgages trims limited-edition five-year fixed rates

ModaMortgages has reduced rates by up to 10 basis points across its limited-edition five-year...

Providence agrees deal to acquire Hometrack

Providence Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Hometrack, the residential property valuation and risk...

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