Mortgages

New five-year BTL fixes from Paragon

Paragon Mortgages has unveiled a new range of five year, fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage products...

Keystone cuts Classic Range rates

Keystone Property Finance has reduced all fixed rates in its Classic Range. Five year...

The Yorkshire cuts three and five-year fixes

The Yorkshire Building Society has announced a 0.14 basis point reduction on selected three and...

Mortgage Affordability Tool unveiled

Money Dashboard has introduced the Mortgage Affordability Tool (MAT), a new product targeting the...

TSB cuts fixed and tracker rates

TSB is reducing rates across a range of fixed and tracker-rate mortgages for homemovers,...

TFC offers free legals through new members club

TFC Homeloans is offering brokers up to £1m in free legals for remortgage clients...

Mortgage Vision details revealed

The dates, venues and registration details have been announced for the 2016 series of...

The Coventry ups BTL end of term age

The Coventry Building Society is increasing its maximum age at end of term from 75...

The Mortgage Lender cuts tracker rates

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has reduced the cost of its tracker mortgages. The Glasgow-based lender...

Record results for Together

Together has posted record pre-tax profits £90.3m for the year ending 30 June 2016, an...

New exclusives from Skipton Intermediaries

Skipton Intermediaries is offering a selection of two-year fixed rate exclusives, available for purchase...

Month-on-month fall in FTB & home mover activity

Home-owners borrowed £10.6bn for house purchase in July 2016, down 13% month-on-month and 12%...

Brexit effect won’t be fully felt for years

An industry panel at today's Financial Services Expo (FSE) London have agreed that the...

Fewer ‘dinner party landlords’ predicted

Changes hitting buy-to-landlords, such as a rise in stamp duty for additional homes and...

COMMENT

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...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

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Knowledge Bank opens broker search data to lenders through KB PRO

Knowledge Bank has launched an intelligence service that allows mortgage lenders to analyse more...

Stamp duty receipts defy housing market slowdown

Stamp Duty Land Tax receipts remained above pre-pandemic levels during the first half of...

Prime London sales falter as rental growth hits 18-month high

Prime London sales activity weakened in July while annual rental growth accelerated to its...

RICS: Mortgage costs keep housing market subdued

The UK housing market remained subdued in July as buyer demand and agreed sales...

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