Mortgages

Mortgage lending up 50% year-on-year

Gross mortgage borrowing of £11.5bn was 47% higher than in the same month last...

Borrowers rush to fix

An unprecedented number of homebuyers opted to fix their mortgage rates in February as...

Call for surveyor fast-tracking to ease shortage

A shortage of surveyors is continuing to put pressure on the secured loan sector...

32% to still be paying mortgage in their 60s

A third of homeowners with repayment mortgages will not have finished repaying the property...

Virgin Money offers new 75% LTV buy-to-let deals

Virgin Money has increased its maximum buy-to-let LTV from 70% to 75% and has...

The Teachers broadens its offering

The Teachers Building Society has launched two new deals and lowered the rate on...

Over 11,000 high LTV mortgages completed in February

Lending to high LTV borrowers reached a six-year high in February, as monthly high...

CML reports seasonal dip on lending

The total number of home-owner loans for house purchase in January 2014 was down...

Stonebridge added to Magellan panel

Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions, the network arm of Stonebridge Group, has been appointed to the...

Worrying lack of shopping around revealed

Research from Which? Mortgage Advisers shows that people aren’t doing their homework when choosing...

NatWest seeks to increase buy-to-let presence with new range

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has launched a pair of new five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgages...

David Copland heads up new packager

LSL Property Services has launched a new packager. The Mortgage Processing Centre will be...

Six year high for FTB lending

Lending to first-time buyers in the final quarter of 2013 was at its highest...

Connect Mortgage Club launches new broker website

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has relaunched its website with improved features for brokers.   The site...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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