Mortgages

Magellan partners with 3mc

Magellan Homeloans is to distribute its full range of mortgage products via the specialist distributor...

New Help to Buy deal from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported continued strong demand for Help to Buy Equity loan...

Lowest rate ever for Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has made changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range, with rates now starting from 2.99%,...

CML: gross lending up 2% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £18.9 billion...

Coventry for Intermediaries to pay BTL transfer proc fees

Coventry for Intermediaries is to start paying product transfer fees on buy-to-let retention business from...

Pepper expands network distribution

Pepper Homeloans has extended its distribution network to include Ingard. The Essex and Chester based...

Accord extends retention proc fee pilot

Accord Mortgages is broad ending its pilot scheme to pay brokers a procuration fee for...

Saffron For Intermediaries unveils specialist BTL deals

Saffron For Intermediaries has launched five-year fixed rate mortgages for expats purchasing or remortgaging rental...

New FS events for Wales unveiled

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, has published details of two...

New secure client portal for the Key

Mortgage Brain has launched a new secure online Client Portal within the Key. It can be...

London FTB borrowing down 7% year-on-year

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the fourth quarter of...

Accord lowers 60-75% LTV buy-to-let rates

Accord Buy To Let has cuts rates on its lower loan to value (LTV) mortgages...

Paradigm expands mortgage lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has added Vida Homeloans to its lender panel. All Paradigm advisers and...

Record profits and lending at the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported record profits before tax for the fourth consecutive...

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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