Mortgages

Exclusive deals for private bank customers of Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks will be offering a new range of mortgage products exclusively...

Pair of new two-year deals unveiled by AFI

Abbey for Intermediaries has launched two new two-year deals. They are as follows: A two-year fix...

AToM reveals Maidstone event plans

All Types of Mortgages Ltd (AToM) has published details of the lenders who are...

Vast majority of N&P borrowers opt for ‘low fee’ product

86% of new borrowers with Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) this year have...

40% rise in apps for Hinckley & Rugby

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society received over £54 million of mortgage applications in...

Exclusive Melton Mowbray deal for PMS and Sesame

PMS members and appointed representatives (ARs) of Sesame's network now have access to...

New mortgage lending increases

Approvals for house purchase last month were up 24% over last May, according to...

Retention products “at odds with” principles of MMR

It is unlikely that retention products will satisfy client suitability principles in the post...

Strong growth in remortgaging

Monthly gross remortgage lending rose by £576m in May to £3.9bn, according to latest...

Making light work of the MMR

As mortgage availability improves and last year’s concerns over the threat of dual pricing...

Let’s not ‘innovate’ ourselves into another disaster

I’ve written before about the use of the word ‘innovation’ in the mortgage marketplace...

Precise Mortgages revamps home owner proposition

Precise Mortgages has simplified its Home Owner range. Rates have been cut and now start...

New Chelsea fix at 1.64%

Chelsea Building Society has made further reductions to its mortgage range. Its offering now includes...

Fixes at lowest levels since the credit crunch began

May was the cheapest month for fixed rate mortgages since the onset of the...

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Economic uncertainty weighing on business borrowers

Taken as a whole, Atom bank’s SME Pulse for Q2 shows the current robust health of demand in the commercial market. Around 95% of the...

Could a move to ‘enhanced advice’ also mean mandatory protection conversations?

The FCA’s recent Mortgage Market Discussion Paper (DP25/2) has got the industry talking about ‘enhanced advice’ – an idea that certain customers, such as...

Take off the rose-tinted glasses and stop chasing a rate cut

Every six weeks the financial world raises its eyebrows at the prospect of a rate cut, causing celebration when the Monetary Committee duly obliges. There...

URGENT! AI Is coming for you. Or maybe not…

I’ll try to make this as straight to the point as I can. The way that your prospective customers find you via online search...

Mind the gap: Can mortgage advice change the game for protection?

Many industry insiders still talk about the UK protection gap and how vast it is. The numbers speak for themselves with the estimated value of...

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Newcastle for Intermediaries removes age cap on standard repayment mortgages

Newcastle for Intermediaries has abolished the maximum age limit for the repayment of standard...

Rising cost of living could stall housing market activity

The rising cost of living remains the most pressing concern for Britons and could...

The Mortgage Works cuts switcher rates for existing landlords

The Mortgage Works has announced reductions of up to 0.25 percentage points on selected...

Homeowners stay put as remortgaging nears parity with home purchases

Britain’s homeowners are increasingly choosing to refinance rather than move, with remortgage activity now...