News

Majority of landlords shunned tax change advice

44% of landlords surveyed by Mortgages for Business plan to expand their portfolios before...

Castle Trust unveils ‘AI quotation engine’

Castle Trust has introduced what it claims to be the industry’s first quotation engine...

UTB balance sheet exceeds £1bn

United Trust Bank has reported that its balance sheet has exceeded £1 billion. During...

PMS and Sesame see 10-year high for completions

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have reported their highest combined mortgage volumes since...

Complete FS added to TMA Club panel

Complete FS is joining the TMA Club to provide specialist lending services to TMA...

New trustees at Leeds Building Society Foundation

Two new trustees have joined the Leeds Building Society Foundation. The appointment of David Marsh...

Free remortgage legals back at the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is reintroducing free legal services for its remortgaging customers. In...

Annual house price rises slowing, says Halifax

Halifax has reported that house prices in the last three months to January were...

New further advance feature from Paragon

Paragon is offering a new further advance online facility, via a new portal available to...

Colin Sanders launches new lender

A new bridging lender, providing additional new funding to the non-regulated real estate bridging sector,...

Prestige Finance cuts prime residential rates

Prestige Finance has made rate reductions across its prime product range.  The move from the second...

London rents bounce back

The latest Landbay Rental Index has found that the average cost of renting a...

CheckMyPaydayLoan.com radio ad banned

Claims management company CheckMyPaydayLoan.com has had a radio advert banned by the Advertising Standards...

IMLA: buy-to-let under pressure

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that net investment in buy-to-let property...

COMMENT

Busting the myths that stop homeowners protecting their income

In my role at LifeSearch, I spend a lot of time talking to mortgage advisers, brokers, and, increasingly, customers directly. One thing comes up time...

The 4.3 million borrowers your pipeline is probably missing

There are 4.3 million self-employed workers in the UK and nearly one in five self-employed workers plans to buy a property in the next...

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...

Latest news

The Swansea reports mortgage growth at AGM

Swansea Building Society has reported growth in assets, mortgages, savings and capital reserves for...

Wealthy Advisers Club draws more than 400 advisers to London conference

The Wealthy Advisers Club has held its latest flagship conference at Kensington Town Hall,...

CHL cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 25bps

CHL Mortgages has reduced rates across its short-term let and limited edition buy-to-let ranges. The...

Darlington cuts rates across buy-to-let and specialist ranges

Darlington Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 50bps across its buy-to-let,...

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