Mortgages

Remortgage lending bounces back

Monthly gross remortgage lending rose to a seven-year high of £6.2bn in January 2016,...

Choice of mortgage deals at near-eight-year high

Mortgage Advice Bureau's National Mortgage Index for January found  here were 17,132 products available on the...

New buy-to-let fixes from the Skipton

The Skipton Building Society is offering a refreshed range of fixed rate buy-to-let products with...

OSB acquires £400m UK mortgage book

OneSavings Bank subsidiary Rochester Mortgages Limited has entered into a mortgage sale agreement to...

Sesame and PMS offering 95% LTV Leeds exclusive

Sesame and PMS have launched an exclusive fixed rate product to appointed representatives (ARs)...

Paragon introduces online limited company BTL application

Paragon Mortgages will now allow intermediaries to submit applications for limited company buy-to-let purchases online. The...

Accord cuts buy-to-let fixed rates

Accord Buy to Let has cut the rates on its range of three and five-year fixed...

Skipton unveils web chat service

Skipton Intermediaries has today launched a web chat service for all of its broker partners following...

Are lenders committed to the intermediary market?

It’s not often you get four of the biggest hitters from the lending industry...

1.14% fix from the Yorkshire

The Yorkshire Building Society has launched a two-year fixed rate mortgage at 1.14%. The...

The Bath unveils room renting FTB proposition

The Bath Building Society has launched 'Rent a Room' mortgages. The product allows an individual...

FTBs still better off buying than renting

UK first-time buyers are on average 10% (£865) a year better off with their...

Trio back trade body merger

The boards of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), British Bankers' Association (BBA) and...

Hinckley & Rugby mortgage advances up 14%

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society grew its mortgage advances 14% to £128 million in...

COMMENT

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...

Private credit has reached its next stage of maturity

Every lending market experiences moments that prompt uncomfortable questions. A high profile default, allegations of poor governance or a significant loss inevitably lead to...

Your clients aren’t being stolen… they’re being handed over

Let's be honest about something the industry won't say out loud. Lenders going direct aren't the problem. Brokers are. Every year the same conversation happens....

Latest news

Hope Capital expands Shawbrook funding facility

Hope Capital Property Finance has increased its committed funding facility with Shawbrook Bank to...

Pivotal linked to Beneficial Network deal

LSL Property Services is understood to have agreed a deal involving Beneficial mortgage network...

London leads rental growth as supply shortage keeps rents high

London recorded the strongest monthly increase in average rents as demand continued to outstrip...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

TMG recorded its highest monthly submission volume with MetLife, exceeding its previous record by...

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