Mortgages

CML to create buy-to-let statement of practice

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed it has been working on a...

BoE: increase in proportion of FTB lending

The proportion of lending for house purchase in Q2 2014 was 70.1%, about 3.7...

FCA to discuss post-MMR world at FSE London

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to outline the post-MMR regulatory future for the...

Paradigm offers exclusive five-year fix

Paradigm Mortgage Services has announced the launch of a new five year fixed-rate product...

Kensington Group sold by Investec

Investec has announced the sale of Kensington Group plc, together with certain other Investec...

Nationwide cuts rates

Nationwide is reducing rates by up to 0.70 percentage points across fixed and tracker...

New two-year range from the Skipton

Skipton Building Society has unveiled a new residential two-year fixed mortgage range with rates...

New resi range from Coventry Intermediaries

Coventry Intermediaries has announced the launch of a residential range with two and five-year...

AMI concerned with Mortgage Directive implementation

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) has provided its initial response to the Treasury's...

Government moves to regulate buy-to-let

The Treasury has launched a consultation on incorporating new European regulations on mortgage lending into...

Small base rate rises would threaten many borrowers

Nearly two million homeowners wouldn't be able to afford mortgage repayments following a base...

CML unveils pre-election ‘manifesto’

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has published a housing market manifesto aimed at...

Skipton to cut its mortgage variable rate

Skipton Building Society is to lower its mortgage variable rate (MVR) from 5.49% to...

The Leeds to cut 10-year fixed rate

Leeds Building Society is cutting the rate of one of its longer term fixed...

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

Vernon partners with FintechOS on mortgage platform upgrade

Vernon Building Society has partnered with FintechOS to support investment in a unified mortgage...

HSBC to host broker webinar on market volatility amid Middle East tensions

HSBC is set to host a broker-focused webinar examining the impact of geopolitical instability...

The Mortgage Works to cut buy-to-let rates once again

The Mortgage Works will cut rates across selected buy-to-let and HMO products from Wednesday,...

Virgin Money withdraws buy-to-let new business range

Virgin Money has pulled all buy-to-let new business deals as of Tuesday 28 April,...

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