Mortgages

Largest value of remortgage lending for a year

Monthly gross remortgage lending saw an increase of 19% in September to £4.4bn, up...

Enquiries up at Conti

Overseas mortgage specialist Conti has reported a rise in enquiries over 37% so far...

Hinckley & Rugby ‘sharpens’ rates

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has cut the interest rates on a pair of...

Precise improves self-employed offering

Self-employed Britons are still struggling to feel the benefits of recovery in the...

Buy-to-let comes of age

The buy-to-let market is celebrating its 18th birthday. In 1996, ARLA and a small select...

Mortgage Brain launches web-based sourcing solution

Mortgage Brain has announced the launch of MortgageBrain Anywhere, its online mortgage sourcing...

The Hanley selects exclusive specialist distributor

The Hanley Economic Building Society has launched the first product of its Specialist range...

Mortgage27 access now available to lenders and packagers

Mortgage27 has revealed that MortgageSource, its recently released sourcing system for financial intermediaries, is...

Fleet Mortgages expands launch panel

Fleet Mortgages has added Legal & General Mortgage Club to the list of distributors...

NatWest hires six BDMs

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has appointed six new business development managers (BDMs). Four will be...

CML: gross mortgage lending down month-on-month

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending reached £17.8...

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks ‘pay your mortgage for a month’

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have launched a new range of mortgages including a ‘pay your...

HSBC offers its lowest ever mortgage rate

HSBC has unveiled its lowest ever mortgage rate this morning. Borrowers with 40% deposit or...

Two-year tracker rates reach five-year low

The proportion of homebuyers applying for a fixed-rate deal fell to its lowest level...
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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...

Rates are moving and regulation is evolving

Many lenders are having to increase their rates, and that trend looks set to continue over the coming week. For clients whose current deal...

Building tomorrow’s mortgage market: AI built on trust, governance and confidence

The government's Financial Services AI Adoption Plan, led by Harriet Rees, group chief information officer at Starling Bank, and Dr Rohit Dhawan, group director...

The protection prompt: what AI still needs to get right

The Mills Review has prompted plenty of discussion across the mortgage industry. While much of the focus has been on the finding that a...

Why second charges are helping Right to Buy borrowers do more with their home

For many people, Right to Buy is still one of the most accessible ways to become a homeowner and over the last five years,...

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Leeds lending falls amid technology investment

Leeds Building Society completed £2bn of gross mortgage lending during the first half of...
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Foundation revives buy-to-let products and cuts holiday let rates

Foundation Home Loans has refreshed its buy-to-let mortgage range, bringing back several products, adding...
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UK residential property transactions edge higher in June

UK residential property transactions rose modestly in June, suggesting that underlying market activity is...
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Buyers turn to 1.5 million homes rejected by mainstream lenders

About 1.5 million homes across Britain may fall outside mainstream mortgage criteria, according to...

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