Mortgages

New five-year deals from Accord

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a new range of five-year fixed rate remortgage deals. Available...

SimplyBiz Mortgages expands equity release panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced the addition of OneFamily to its equity release panel. OneFamily’s range...

Local events “more popular” than national Expos

Complete FS has claimed that smaller regional expos are more popular among brokers than larger national...

Homemover market at highest level for almost a decade

The latest Lloyds Bank Homemaker Review has found that the number of homemovers rose...

The Skipton relaxes lending policy

The Skipton Building Society has made two policy changes across its entire mortgage range.  The maximum...

Nationwide reports 26% rise in gross mortgage lending

The Nationwide Building Society has posted its results for the quarter from 5 April...

Accord unveils ERC-free buy-to-let trackers

Accord Buy To Let has launched a range of new tracker mortgages with no...

The Leeds changes tenancy criteria

The Leeds Building Society will now accept tenancy agreements for a period to suit...

New 3.29% five-year BTL from the Mansfield

The Mansfield Building Society has unveiled a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage at 3.29%.  It...

Fall in arrears and possessions continues

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that the number of mortgages in...

FTBs continuing to drive house purchase lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that in June, home-owners borrowed £12.3bn...

Nationwide offering its lowest ever 10-year fix

The Nationwide Building Society has made cuts to the majority of its fixed rate mortgages by...

Majority never overpay their mortgage

New research by comparethemarket.com has found that UK mortgage holders could save over £14bn...

Panel growth for Openwork

Tesco Bank has joined the lender panel at Openwork. The move will provide Openwork advisers with access...
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COMMENT

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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