New build

Kensington launches limited company BTL offering

Kensington Mortgages is now offering mortgages for limited company buy-to-let customers. The new offering to...

New 90% LTV new build deals from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has unveiled a range of new build mortgage products. It has also changed...

Barclays Green Home Mortgage to launch next week

Barclays Mortgages has announced the launch of the Barclays Green Home Mortgage, available to...

LSL subsidiary invests £2.5m in RSC New Homes

Your-move.co.uk Limited, a member of the LSL Property Services plc (LSL) group of companies...

TML removes credit score cascade

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has made a number of changes to its product offering. It...

New deals from the Skipton BS

The Skipton Building Society has revised rates across a number of mortgage products with...

Legal & General Mortgage Club events calendar published

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced its 2018 calendar of events. The half...

Consumer Code for New Homes formally approved

The Consumer Code for New Homes (CCNH) has celebrated its formal approval by the...

22% fall in new build registrations year-on-year

HM Land Registry received more than 97,000 sales of land and property in England...

Bank of Ireland UK launches new build pilot

Bank of Ireland UK has announced the launch of an exclusive new build pilot...

The Leeds improves new build criteria

The Leeds Building Society has made changes to its new build criteria by widening the range...

Third anniversary for L&G’s new build club

Legal & General New Build Club is celebrating its third anniversary. Launched early in 2014,...

L&G extends Ipswich BS partnership

The Ipswich Building Society is to work closely with Legal & General Mortgage Club’s...

COMMENT

The industry needs to prepare now for Your First Home

The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...

Why advisers can be part of the conveyancing team

There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Latest news

First-time buyer affordability remains strained despite narrowing house price gap

Only 12.1% of potential first-time buyers can afford the average starter home in their...

Royal London targets GP report delays with digital service

Royal London is expanding its use of digital medical evidence in an effort to...

Equifinance names Jackie Burchill as lending operations director

Equifinance has appointed Jackie Burchill as director of lending operations as the second charge...

House price-to-income ratio falls to 11-year low as mortgage costs rise

The gap between UK house prices and earnings has narrowed to its lowest level...

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