Mortgages

Rise in number of limited company BTL products

Mortgages for Business. has said that the range and pricing of buy-to-let mortgage products...

Platform reveals retention process

Platform has become the latest lender to launch a new mortgage retention process for intermediaries. Intermediaries will...

Legal app offers mortgage and stamp duty calculators

Law firm Moore Blatch has launched an app for Apple and Android devices. Covering...

Saffron for Intermediaries improves specialist deals

Saffron For Intermediaries has cut rates and extended the term on several of its mortgages...

Positive Lending appoints director of mortgages

South coast based packager, Positive Lending, has appointed Stephanie Charman as its director of mortgages. ...

Government stake in Lloyds further reduced

UK Financial Investments has cut its holding in Lloyds Banking Group by one percentage...

New BTL offset deal from the Family BS

The Family Building Society has launched a buy-to-let offset mortgage, aimed at helping private residential...

Brokers “doing great job” sourcing mortgages

New research from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has found that brokers are...

Mortgage ‘robo-adviser’ plans launch

MortgageGym.com, which its founders have dubbed a 'regulated mortgage robo-adviser', is to launch in the UK...

Research reveals sacrifices needed to buy a home

Tesco Bank has published the results of its first UK Home Buyers’ Survey. The...

FSE Manchester registration opens

Front Events has opened registration for the Financial Services Expo (FSE) Manchester. The event will be...

Coventry for Intermediaries unveils new BTL range

Coventry for Intermediaries has launched a new range of buy-to-let mortgages at 50% LTV.   Deals...

Sirius Property Finance expands team

Sirius Property Finance, Brightstar’s high net worth business, has appointed three new team members...

Borrowers being let down by high street lenders

According to new research for The Mortgage Lender (TML), Britons think the attitude of...

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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