Mortgages

HSBC expands access to its buy-to-let range

HSBC buy-to-let mortgages are now available to HSBC Advance and Premier customers, subject to...

Bank of Scotland unveils cashback offer

Bank of Scotland is offering first time buyers and home movers £500 cashback when...

Vantage Finance secures full CCA permissions

Vantage Finance has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),...

New five-year deal from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has launched a new five year fixed mortgage for first-time buyers, homemovers...

CML and BSA to work together

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has confirmed that it is partnering with the...

No parental support for nearly half of FTBs

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that nearly half of first-time buyers...

BoE’s MPC votes to keeps the status quo

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again help the Base...

TMW to step early repayment charges

The Mortgage Works (TMW) will apply a reducing scale of early repayment charges (ERCs)...

TFC Homeloans secures CCA permissions from regulator

TFC Homeloans has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

Record pre-tax profits for Virgin Money

Virgin Money has posted its results for 2014, with underlying pre-tax profits rising by...

IMLA: find a permanent replacement for Help to Buy 2

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that failing to replace the Help...

1.75m at risk of interest rate shock

A financial capability charity has warned that more than 1.75m mortgaged households have never...

Kensington predicts specialist lending battle

New entrants and high street lenders will be targeting the specialist lending arena over...

Genworth partners with the Leek United BS

Staffordshire-based Leek United Building Society is joining forces with Genworth, the provider of mortgage...

COMMENT

No benefit to be had from ‘wait and see’

It seems to be a recurring theme as of late, but it’s been yet another week of volatile rates. Swap rates continue to move,...

What financial services can learn from the World Cup

Look, bear with us here. What does the World Cup have to do with financial services reviews? Well, more than you think actually! This summer,...

Buyers are already reacting to a Budget nobody has written

Andy Burnham ruled out changes to stamp duty on 27 July, a week into the job and days after reports that the government was...

The tech question is how, not if, we can use it

Recent adviser research from Nottingham Building Society underlines the appetite for greater use of technology across the mortgage process. The vast majority (89%) of...

Mortgage maturity: A golden opportunity for advisers

Around 1.8 million fixed-rate mortgage deals are due to come to an end in 2026, adding to the 1.6 million mortgages that already matured...

Latest news

Nationwide trims fixed mortgage rates by up to 0.19 points

Nationwide is cutting fixed mortgage rates for first-time buyers, home movers and remortgage customers...

Walbrook launches mortgage adviser apprenticeship pathway

Walbrook Institute London has expanded its apprenticeship offering with a new Level 3 pathway...

Mortgage Advice Bureau combines new-build businesses under Meridian Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau has completed the integration of three specialist new-build mortgage businesses into...

UTB restores 90% LTV second charge lending and cuts rates

United Trust Bank has reintroduced residential second charge lending at up to 90% loan-to-value...

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