Mortgages

Keystone reduces rate on limited company product

Keystone Buy to Let Mortgages has cut its rates for limited company applications by...

The Skipton cuts rates and adds new deals

Skipton Building Society is reducing rates to all two, three and five-year residential fixed rate...

BBA: heat coming out of housing market

Mortgage approval volumes weakened in May and were 3.5% lower overall than in the...

Significant fall in gross remortgage lending

Monthly gross remortgage lending saw a monthly drop of 17% to £3.3bn, down from...

The Leeds welcomes old face back to intermediary team

Parveen Kumari has re-joined Leeds Building Society’s intermediary mortgage team as corporate account manager. The...

Nationwide unveils housing guide for armed forces

Nationwide Building Society has launched an independent financial guide exclusively focused on the housing...

New five-year fixes from Halifax Intermediaries

62% of the 573,866 fixed rate mortgage loans in 2013 were for two-year deals,...

Turnkey Mortgages partners with Magellan Homeloans

Magellan Homeloans has been appointed by TurnKey Mortgages to provide support to clients who...

Virgin Money cuts buy-to-let rates

>Virgin Money has made cuts to selected fixed rate and tracker products within its buy-to-let...

Lending market “holding steady”

Gross mortgage lending was an estimated £16.5 billion in May, according to the Council...

FCA mortgage manager to keynote ASTL conference

Lynda Blackwell, the Financial Conduct Authority's manager of its mortgages sector team is to...

New banks cause shift in consumer attitudes

With new entrants into the UK banking sector from both new retail banks and...

Strong six months for the Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society ended its half year with increases in mortgage applications,...

Affordability improves in majority of regions

Mortgages have become more affordable everywhere except for London and the South East over...

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...

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Japanese knotweed ‘knocks £21.4bn off UK housing market’

Japanese knotweed is wiping an estimated £21.4 billion from UK property values, with more...

Fleet Mortgages names new managing director

Fleet Mortgages has appointed Nicola Richardson as its new managing director. Richardson (pictured) has been...

The Monmouthshire goes live with Phoebus mortgage servicing system

Monmouthshire Building Society has gone live with Phoebus to support mortgage account servicing as...

NatWest completes first PEXA remortgage in two working days

NatWest has completed its first remortgage transaction through PEXA’s digital property completion platform within...

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