Mortgages

SMS offers exclusive HMO product

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has launched a new buy-to-let HMO product in conjunction...

Halifax offers 2.69% five-year deal

Halifax has unveiled a new five-year fixed rate mortgage at 60% LTV. It is priced...

BTL rate cuts from Coventry Intermediaries

Coventry Intermediaries has cuts rates on its range of two and five-year buy-to-let fixed...

Aldermore cuts mortgage rates

Aldermore has reduced its rates on a selection of buy-to-let and residential mortgage products. Changes...

Building societies have largest market share since 1999

Building societies currently make up 21.5% of the gross mortgage lending market, nearly double...

TenetLine expands panel

TenetLime has added Kent Reliance to its mortgage panel. Managing director, Gemma Harle, said the...

Virgin Money adds new residential and buy-to-let mortgages

Virgin Money has made a number of changes across its residential mortgage range.  Key residential...

New products from Tesco Bank

Tesco Bank has added new mortgage rates across its range of mortgage products. In addition,...

AFI overhauls mortgage range

Abbey for Intermediaries (AFI) will tomorrow cuts rates on a number of deals across...

New NatWest exclusives for Pink and First Complete

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has made a range of exclusives available to the Appointed Representatives...

TBMC launches new buy-to-let exclusive with Mortgage Trust

TBMC has launched a new exclusive buy-to-let mortgage from Mortgage Trust. The initial rate...

The Chelsea to reduce rates

29 March will see Chelsea Building Society cut rates on selected mortgage products, with...

The Yorkshire cuts wide selection of rates

Yorkshire Building Society is reducing interest rates by up to 0.20 percentage points on...

The Mortgage Alliance expands lending panel

The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) has added Precise Mortgages to its lender panel. Through TMA, Directly...

COMMENT

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...

This is a different mortgage market and borrowers are reacting to it

It is important to be clear about what has changed in the mortgage market over the last month or so, because the latest data-specific...

The rise of larger deposits

The first-time buyer profile is changing. Increasingly, buyers are entering the market with larger deposits than at any point in recent years as many...

Is life insurance too confusing to buy?

While there are peaks and troughs depending on where we look, the UK life insurance market is typically quite flat, including mortgage-related protection. Recent data...

Why the government’s housing ambitions won’t fix the affordability crisis

With the bidding open for the government’s £39bn Social and Affordable Homes Programme - the main pillar of its long-term housing strategy - homebuying...

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Coadjute joins FCA AI testing programme as conveyancers face tougher AML regime

Coadjute has joined the Financial Conduct Authority’s AI Live Testing programme as conveyancing firms...

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

Morrow has appointed Amit Gupta as financial services director as it looks to expand...

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

UK mortgage and property professionals have been urged to rethink the homebuying process after Russell...

Newcastle updates broker portal for faster product transfers

Newcastle for Intermediaries has upgraded its broker portal to make product transfers quicker and...

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