Mortgages

SMS expands lending panel

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has added The Mansfield Building Society to its panel of...

Metro Bank cuts two-year mortgage rates

Metro Bank has cut rates on its residential two-year fixed rate and tracker mortgages. For...

New 65% LTV deals from First Direct

First Direct has today introduced a pair of fixed rate mortgages for borrowers with...

Tesco Bank adds new fixes to mortgage range

Tesco Bank has cut the interest rate on a number of its mortgages by...

87 purchase & remo deals to be cut by NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is introducing rate reductions to the majority of its core intermediary range...

Mark Snape leaves Magellan

Mark Snape, managing director of lending for Magellan Homeloans, is leaving the company. Snape (pictured)...

5% month-on-month rise in gross mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending reached £19 billion in October, according to estimates by the Council...

The Skipton reduces two-year fixed rates

Skipton Building Society has cut interest rates by up to 0.56 percentage points on...

TMW changes product offering

The Mortgage Works (TMW) will be making changes to its new business and existing...

New website and logo for Mortgages for Business

Mortgages for Business has unveiled its new website and corporate identity. The firm said...

Buyers better off than renters after five years

Zoopla has claimed that those homeowners with mortgages pay £316 more on average per...

Growing demand for the Leeds’ contractor mortgages

Leeds Building Society has revealed it is working with more intermediaries as it continues...

Call for lenders to change policy towards EPCs

It has been claimed that house buyers could be missing out on as much...

COMMENT

Portfolio landlords reshape buy-to-let market

Portfolio landlords are becoming increasingly central to the buy-to-let market as investors take a more structured approach to property ownership. The market has seen a...

Supporting complex cases in a modern mortgage market

In today’s diverse mortgage landscape, brokers are working with a growing number of clients whose circumstances fall outside traditional lending models. From self-employed professionals...

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

Stop tinkering: Why mortgage tech needs a proper overhaul

Let’s be honest. If you work in the UK mortgage market right now, you know we’re all running pretty fast just to stand still. Between...

Latest news

Family Building Society cuts minimum property value to £75k

Family Building Society has lowered its minimum property value from £120,000 to £75,000 across...

360 Lifecycle adds Checkmyfile credit reporting link

360 Lifecycle has partnered with Checkmyfile to give advisers access to clients’ multi-agency credit...

Barclays cuts rates and launches sub-4% Premier tracker

Barclays will cut selected mortgage rates from Thursday 30 April and launch a Premier...

Millennials still locked out of homeownership

Only 5% of millennials have reached the life milestones they expected as teenagers, according...

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