Mortgages

New BDMs for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has expanded its sales team with the addition of two further field-based business...

New round of L&G Mortgage Club LIVE events

Legal & General Mortgage Club will host its fifth series of Mortgage Club LIVE...

The Dudley scraps upper age limits

The Dudley Building Society has removed all upper age restrictions across its entire product...

L&G updates MCD info hub

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) Matrix, which...

Nationwide cuts 95% rates

The Nationwide Building Society has cut a number of rates by up to 0.40 percentage points across...

Kensington joins TMA panel

Mortgage lender Kensington has been appointed to TMA’s panel of lenders. This move extends...

Co-founder returns to packager

Damian Cain has returned to Complete FS as national account manager. Cain was one of...

Stonebridge raise over £15k for cancer charities

Stonebridge Group raised over £15,000 for two cancer charities, Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer...

The Leeds confirms HTB London scheme participation

The Leeds Building Society is to launch its range of new Help To Buy...

Keystone sets Classic Range app cut-off date

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages is to prioritise Classic Range purchase applications that are...

24% annual rise in FTB transactions

The number of completed first-time buyer transactions increased to 31,300 in November, according to...

Remortgage market remaining extremely strong

The number of borrowers renewing their mortgage has doubled year-on-year in the six months...

The Ipswich extends support for mortgage misfits 

The Ipswich Building Society unveiled its Divorce Mortgage Programme yesterday (4 January), on s-called ‘Divorce Day’ –...

New residential deals from the Skipton

Skipton Building Society is launching a new range of two and five-year fixed rate residential...

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

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal...

TMG reports record monthly MetLife submissions

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

Leek raises earned income age limit to 75

Leek Building Society has introduced eight lending criteria changes covering income, contractors, later-life borrowing...

Coventry cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates for new and...

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