Mortgages

L&G outlines LIVE club event schedule

Legal & General Mortgage Club is to hold its sixth series of Mortgage Club LIVE...

Marc Graves promoted to MD of Sesame & PMS

Sesame Bankhall Group (SBG) has announced changes to its executive management team. Managing director Stephen Gazard is...

Together revamps buy-to-let offering

Together has made changes to its buy-to-let product range, promising reduced rates, quicker online application...

12% rise in Virgin Money’s gross mortgage lending

Virgin Money has reported a 33% rise in pre-tax profits for 2016 to £213.3...

First Complete & Pink urges broker action over BTL changes

First Complete and Pink are calling for brokers to ensure landlords on their books...

Front Events reveals Midlands events

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, will be running two...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints MD

Bluestone Group has announced the appointment of David Torpey as managing director of Bluestone Mortgages and...

The changing face of lending into retirement

Lending into retirement has been a major bug bear for borrowers in recent years...

Magellan products now available through PMS 

Magellan Homeloans' range of products are now available to members of the PMS Mortgage...

Large jump in profits at the Newcastle

The Newcastle Building Society has reported that its pre-tax profits increased to £8.1m for the year...

Aldermore outlines retention fee offering

Aldermore is to launch a retention procuration fee for brokers on 3 April 2017. Procuration fees will be available...

Remortgaging approvals up 16% year-on-year

Latest high street banking data from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) shows that consumer...

The Coventry reports 13% rise in new lending

The Coventry Building Society has reported 'record results' for 2016. The mutual's full year results show record mortgage...

New buy-to-let deals from Pepper Homeloans

Pepper Homeloans has launched two and five-year buy-to-let fixed rates and cutting some existing rates by...

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

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...

The Coventry cuts fixed rates by up to 20bps

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced every fixed-rate mortgage in its range, with lower rates...

Family BS appoints Kirsty Dancer as Midlands BDM

Family Building Society has appointed Kirsty Dancer as business development manager for the East...

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