Mortgages

Dudley Building Society reduces retention and further advance rates

Dudley Building Society has updated its range of mortgage retention products. This includes rate reductions...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) partners with Atom bank

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has added Atom bank to its lender panel. The deal provides...

HSBC revises mortgage product end dates

HSBC is making changes to its residential and buy-to-let mortgage product ranges. The changes will...

Family Building Society improves buy-to-let lending criteria

Family Building Society has introduced a new range of owner-occupier interest-only and buy-to-let products. Two-year...

Precise reduces residential rates and adds new fee options

Precise has revised its residential product range and reduced rates across the 75% and...

Atom bank cuts Near Prime & Prime rates

Atom bank has lowered reduced rates across both its Prime and Near Prime products. Rates...

Pepper Money offers limited edition remortgage deal

Pepper Money has unveiled a Limited Edition remortgage-only offer, which contains no upfront fee. It...

Simple Financial Planning partners with Sikoia

Sikoia has announced a new partnership with brokerage Simple Financial Planning to improve broker...

Mortgage approvals rise in December as borrowing rebounds

Net mortgage approvals for house purchases slightly increased to 66,500 in December, compared to...

Bank of England cautions against relaxing mortgage lending limits

The Bank of England (BoE) has warned that easing mortgage lending restrictions could lead...

Virgin Money unveils new residential and buy-to-let products

Virgin Money is introducing a range of new products on Thursday 30 January, providing...

Advisers’ top concerns are rising costs and mortgage market instability

A nationwide survey of financial advisers, conducted by The Exeter, has discovered their main...

UTB doubles maximum loan size to £2m

United Trust Bank Mortgages has doubled its maximum residential first charge mortgage loan size...

Salary gains not being translated into larger deposits

Twenty7Tec has revealed that over the past few years, while salaries have increased, the...

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Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

What a bigger market means for brokers

The latest Interpath and BDLA UK Bridging Market Survey confirms what many brokers are already experiencing on the ground, that bridging has hit the...

How social media can bridge the protection disconnect

The latest AMI Protection Viewpoint provided a compelling snapshot of the challenges and opportunities facing the protection market. The research highlights a worrying pattern that...

Opening doors for credit-worthy but overlooked clients

It doesn’t take much these days for a borrower to feel they’ve fallen out of favour with the system. A missed payment here, a...

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CHL Mortgages expands into 80% LTV buy-to-let lending

CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries has entered the 80% loan-to-value (LTV) space with a new...

Stagg Mortgage Services appoints Paul Lewis as growth director

Stagg Mortgage Services has appointed Paul Lewis as its new growth director as part...

HLPartnership adds Handelsbanken to lender panel

HLPartnership has added Handelsbanken to its lender panel as part of its ongoing strategy...

FCA warns consumers over ineffective credit builder products

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned that many credit builder products fail to...

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