Mortgages

New fixes from the Hinckley & Rugby

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched four new fixed rate mortgages at a...

Govt reveals Help to Buy figures

The Help to Buy scheme has helped 35,000 people to buy their own home,...

BoE proposes cap on 4.5x income mortgage exposure

According to the Bank of England’s latest Financial Stability Report, risks remain within the...

Phoebus reveals Ireland plans

Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) is launching into the Republic of Ireland. The firm is...

Castle Trust appoints head of sales

Castle Trust has promoted Alex Upton to the position of head of mortgage...

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...

COMMENT

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...

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...

UK residential property transactions edge higher in June

UK residential property transactions rose modestly in June, suggesting that underlying market activity is...

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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