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The Skipton offers range to Help to Buy leavers

The Skipton Building Society is launching a new range of  what it has dubbed...

Vida moves into second charge market

Vida Homeloans is a piloting a second charge mortgage offering. It has a range of...

Cost of mortgages starts to increase

Mortgage Brain has revealed that the cost of mortgages is on the rise with...

The Buckinghamshire scraps fees for FTBs

The Buckinghamshire Building Society has removed the product fee and the application fee from...

PFS backs FCA’s latest ScamSmart campaign

The Personal Finance Society have pledged its full support to the latest campaign by...

The Monmouthshire extends geographical lending area

The Monmouthshire Building Society is expanding its geographical lending area, in which residential mortgage...

Platform cuts fixed rates and changes criteria

Platform cut has rates on selected 90% LTV mortgages across two, three and five-year...

Rap group call out publication for using their image in place of ‘gang’

Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase...

Average deposit doubles in a decade to £33,339

The number of first-time buyers is estimated to have totalled 359,000 in 2017, while those...

Mint Bridging completes loan in record time

Mint Bridging has completed on a loan in five days.  The original lender had pulled out...

The Right Mortgage selects protection case management service

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced LifeQuote’s outsourced protection case management service...

Royal London unveils enhanced children’s CIC

Royal London has introduced flexible options and enhancements to its critical illness cover (CIC)....

Melania Trump’s Mail Suit Suggests Desire To Monetise First Lady Role

Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase...

Investec rebrands Amicus Commercial Finance

Investec Bank has rebranded Amicus Commercial Finance as Investec Capital Solutions, which will provide...

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...

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...

Latest news

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,...

HTB backs £2.4m Mitcham scheme

Hampshire Trust Bank has provided a £2.4m development finance facility for a mixed-use scheme in...

The Mansfield reports record mortgage lending for second year running

Mansfield Building Society has reported record mortgage lending for the second successive year, after...

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