Mortgages

Mansfield BS moves into Scottish BTL market

Mansfield Building Society has announced its launch into the Scottish buy-to-let market. The lender will...

Newcastle for Intermediaries makes non-EEA criteria changes

Newcastle for Intermediaries has made improvements to its lending policy with several criteria changes. These...

Gen H broadens income booster eligibility

Gen H will now accept nieces, nephews and friends as 'income boosters'. Friends can act...

Saffron for Intermediaries makes improvements across mortgage offering

Saffron for Intermediaries has made rate reductions across a number of products. The changes are...

West One Loans improves residential and second charge product ranges

West One Loans has made key changes to its residential and second charge product...

Acre predicts £20bn in completions on platform

Acre has reported that its platform usage has doubled in the past 12 months. The...

Work-related mental health is worsening, says MIMHC

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) is urging the industry to undergo systemic...

Buckinghamshire BS sees major later life lending growth

Buckinghamshire Building Society has reported an important rise in the take-up of its later...

April Mortgages appoints director of risk and compliance

April Mortgages has appointed Stephanie Burke as director of risk and compliance. Burke (pictured) has...

Pepper Money holds wellbeing event for brokers

Pepper Money has hosted its first broker wellbeing event for 40 invited guests. The...

MPowered Mortgages makes further two-year fixed rate cuts

MPowered Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year fixed rate purchase mortgage range for...

Foundation’s brands cut pricing

The buy-to-let brand of specialist lender, Foundation Home Loans, has announced new Limited Edition...

Loughborough BS appoints senior telephone BDM

Loughborough Building Society has announced the promotion of Luke Berrington to the newly created...

Virgin Money unveils 7 Day Specials

Virgin Money has launched a series of New '7 Day Specials'. They are available until...

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AGENT VIEW: I know I’m not a mathematician but to me 6.5 x is the new 3.5 x

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, as they say, and in an era of creeping inflation, job insecurity and the menacing spectre of...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape that had shifted more than I expected. The private B2C surveying...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

Income protection: the unsung hero of the cost-of-living crisis

Higher mortgage rates, rising energy costs, and continued inflation have put pressure on many household budgets. Advisers spend time helping customers find the right rate,...

Why rigid credit scoring is locking too many people out of homeownership

Some people don’t fit the mould. That’s always been true in mortgage lending. But the tools used by most lenders to assess borrowers, particularly...

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Paradigm launches eighth annual ‘Reverse Advent’ campaign to support food banks

Paradigm has launched its eighth annual ‘Help Fight Hunger’ Reverse Advent charity drive, calling...

LHV Bank strengthens lending team with new director appointment

LHV Bank has expanded its UK lending team with the appointment of Callum Livingstone...

Redwood Bank extends commercial mortgage terms and eases affordability tests

Redwood Bank has made a series of changes to its commercial investment and owner-occupier...

Major brand revamp as OSB Group launches Rely and signals Kent Reliance retirement

OSB Group has launched Rely, a new specialist buy-to-let lender aimed at supporting brokers...

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