Mortgages

Five-year high in first-time buyer numbers

The number of first-time buyers reached its largest yearly total in five years, according...

Platform cuts mainstream and buy-to-let rates

Platform has cut the rates on its mainstream and buy-to-let mortgages by up to...

New 80% LTV deals from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages is adding new 80% LTV products to its fixed rate mortgage rates. The...

Two new deals from the Skipton

Skipton Building Society has added a pair of new low rate, higher fee fixed...

Promising signs of recovery for mortgage market

January saw mortgage approvals reach a four year high in January, according to research...

Clydesdale/Yorkshire Banks reward customers with fee-free offer

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have launched  a 'no fee' mortgage offer. It is available to...

Alternative finance growth outstrips traditional lending

Growth in traditional mortgage lending (1.4%) was outpaced 50 times by annual growth in...

Complete FS to distribute new Saffron mortgage range

Complete FS has revealed that it is one of a select number of partners...

New two-year fix from the Chelsea

Chelsea Building Society has launched a new 1.89% two-year fixed rate mortgage at 60%...

New first direct five-year fix

First direct has unveiled a five-year fixed rate mortgage at 2.69%. It is available at...

L&G Network agrees distribution deal with the Saffron

Legal & General Mortgage Club has become the only national distributor of Saffron Building...

Skipton unveils new discount deals

A number of two-year discounted rate products has been added by Skipton Building Society to...

Accord cuts selected buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is reducing rates by up to 0.10 percentage points on selected fixed rate...

Nationwide unveils ‘Green Additional Borrowing’

Nationwide Building Society is on Friday (8 February) launching a further borrowing product exclusively...
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COMMENT

Opinions & blogs

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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Technology

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...
Appointments

Morrow hire to lead intermediary growth strategy

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

Russell Quirk calls out broken transaction system

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

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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