Mortgages

Pepper unveils new residential and BTL rates

Pepper Homeloans has cut interest rates by up to 0.70 percentage points across both...

£35bn+ worth of mortgages due to mature in Autumn

The largest period of mortgage maturities in five years begins in September. Data from CACI...

New limited edition offer from Foundation Home Loans

Foundation Home Loans has introduced a five-year fixed rate limited edition offer on its...

Magellan Homeloans now accepts four applicants 

Magellan Homeloans will now lend to up to four applicants for its Complex Prime...

Lending down at the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society saw its core operating profit increase by 35% to £84.2m...

Buy-to-let rates continue on downward trajectory

Research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the average two-year fixed buy-to-let rate has fallen by...

BM Solutions to support portfolio landlords

BM Solutions has stated that it will be supporting buy-to-let portfolio lending ahead of...

Total stamp duty bill for London homebuyers tops £40,000

Lloyds Bank has established that homeowners spend an average £12,693 in total on stamp...

BoE reports June rise in lending

The Bank of England has revealed that lending to individuals increased to £1,544.7bn in...

Proportion of borrowers with large deposits increases

The latest Mortgage Monitor from e.surv has reported that there were 65,887 loans (seasonally...

Hometrack wins supplier award

Hometrack has been awarded ‘Supplier of the Year’ at the fourth annual Barclays Global...

Tesco Bank offers new five-year fixed remortgage deals

Tesco Bank has introduced two new five-year fixed rate remortgage products. It has also reduced...

Magellan unveils new mortgage portal

Magellan Homeloans has launched Magellan Hub, a new mortgage portal which enables mortgage intermediaries...

Citizens Advice: replace SVR with ‘expired rate’

Citizens Advice has claimed that mortgage customers who don’t remortgage after their fixed term...

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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