News

BoE: mortgage purchase approvals remaining steady

The Bank of England has revealed that the total number of loan approvals for...

Accord lowers minimum BTL property value

Accord Buy to Let will now accept buy-to-let loans on properties worth £75,000 and...

TMW tightens buy-to-let criteria

The Mortgage Works (TMW) is making changes to its rental calculation and maximum LTV. From...

RBS sounds Williams & Glyn warning

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a loss of £968 million for...

Sustained FTB surge in Spring

First-time buyer activity grew in March, according to the latest First-Time Buyer Tracker from Your...

Crystal’s completions up 153%

Crystal Specialist Finance issued terms on £401m worth of business from January to March,...

Generation Rent still have homebuying aspirations

Halifax's 2016 Generation Rent report has found that delays in getting onto the housing ladder...

LendInvest to move into longer-term loans

LendInvest has secured a warehouse financing facility with Macquarie for an initial amount of...

Simon Stern joins Equifinance as consultant

Equifinance has appointed Simon Stern as a strategic consultant to develop the company’s distribution,...

Kensington prices £350m securitisation

Kensington Mortgages has raised further funding in the capital markets through a new securitisation,...

Openwork reveals its largest mortgage AR

Openwork has announced that Just Mortgages Direct has now officially transitioned to the network,...

Land Registry: house prices down 0.5% in March

The Land Registry March house price data has revealed a monthly price fall of 0.5%. The...

TML reveals launch distributor panel

The Mortgage Lender (TML), which is due to launch in May, has teamed up...

Rate of house price growth slows down

The Nationwide Building Society has revealed that, while house prices in the UK increased...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Regulation

FCA to join Bristol summit as later life lending sector weighs market study

The Financial Conduct Authority will join advisers, lenders and industry figures in Bristol next...
First-time buyers

Targeted deposit scheme could help one million first-time buyers onto housing ladder

A new government-backed deposit scheme could provide a route onto the housing ladder for...
Buy-to-let

Hodge raises holiday let lending limits with 80% LTV move

Hodge Bank has widened its holiday let criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value to 80% and...
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Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...

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