Mortgages

Accord improves LTV ceiling for flats

Accord Mortgages has increased the maximum loan to value (LTV) it will lend on...

Keystone re-jigs proposition

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has revamped its offering with new products, rate and...

Nationwide celebrates two years of Save to Buy

1,715 customers have so far bought a home with Nationwide Building Society’s Save to...

Q1 fall in buy-to-let rates

During the first quarter of 2013 buy to let rates fell by an average...

Accord Mortgages cuts selection of fixed rates

Accord Mortgages has cut interest rates on selected residential products by up to 0.20...

Consumers’ interests need to be central to lender business models

The Council of Mortgage Lenders' (CML) chairman has warned that the mortgage market will...

New 10-year fix from the Yorkshire

Yorkshire Building Society is offering a new 10-year fixed rate mortgage. It is priced at...

Virgin Money tweaks mortgage range

Virgin Money has made a number of changes to its residential mortgage range. Key Residential...

NatWest IS cuts rates on 18 deals

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making a series of rate cuts tomorrow across its Core...

New 2.49% three-year deal from N&P

Norwich & Peterborough Building Society (N&P) has unveiled a new, 'low fee' three-year fixed...

FLS expansion given mixed reception

The Bank of England has extended the time period for the Funding for...

Gross mortgage lending below monthly average

Net mortgage borrowing from the banks fell by 0.1% over the year to March,...

Remortgage activity outpacing total gross mortgage lending

Monthly gross remortgage lending increased by £330m in March to £2.9 billion, according to...

CML unruffled by EU Mortgage Credit Directive agreement

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has welcomed the Irish Presidency's announcement that agreement...

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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...

Navigating HMO and MUFB complexity with confidence

Historically, larger Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) and Multi-Unit Freehold Blocks (MUFBs) have often been avoided due to their complex layouts, individual planning requirements,...

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Housing market stalls as demand dips and sales slide

The UK housing market’s fragile recovery faltered in July as higher borrowing costs and...

Premier League stadium area with highest house price premium revealed

Burnley’s Turf Moor has emerged as the Premier League’s most lucrative stadium location in...

Kuflink launches in-house legal department to speed up deals

Bridging lender Kuflink has launched its own in-house legal department, in what it describes...

Children wield growing influence over UK home buying decisions

Children are exerting unprecedented sway over property choices with 74% of families saying their...