News

New specialist real estate advisory business launches

Mortimer Street Capital has launched as a specialist real estate advisory business providing clients...

Atom bank cuts prime rates by up to 25bps

Atom bank has once again reduced Prime mortgage rates, this time by up to...

Virgin Money launches 5-year fix with option to switch after 2 years

Virgin Money has launched Fix and Switch, which offers a rate fixed for five...

Gateway Surveyors appointed as Melton BS panel manager

Gateway Surveyors has announced that Melton Building Society has appointed it as panel manager. The...

Tandem reduces second charge rates by up to 90bps

Tandem has reduced its residential second charge mortgage products by up to 90 basis...

Buckinghamshire BS unveils Deposit Lite

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced a revamp of its Family Assist product. It has been...

Lloyds Bank joins FIBA lender panel

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced the appointment of Lloyds Bank...

Mortgage Brain and HSBC UK to host free self-employed Criteria Masterclass

Mortgage Brain has partnered with HSBC UK to host a free Criteria Masterclass webinar...

Atom bank improves commercial mortgage offering

Atom bank's range of fixed rate commercial mortgages now start from 5.75%. The range includes...

Nottingham BS cuts rates and launches new deals

Nottingham Building Society has unveiled a new range of mortgage products and improvements. These include...

Countrywide Surveying Services renews valuation deal with Santander UK

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has renewed its ongoing partnership with Santander UK through a...

Family Building Society cuts rates by up to 65bps

Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of reduced-price mortgage products. Two-year owner occupier...

Suros Capital sees enquiry growth for tax bills

Suros Capital has revealed an increase in applications for urgent funding to pay tax...

Hodge improves its professional mortgage criteria

Hodge is making what it sees as "significant enhancements" to its Professional Mortgage criteria,...

COMMENT

Advisers should be brave enough to drown out the noise

If you thought the economic and mortgage market commentary had been particularly noisy recently, I suspect you haven't heard anything yet, because with the...

Expat buy-to-let: a smaller world, a bigger picture

There has been no shortage of gloomy commentary about buy-to-let of late, so you might wonder why anyone living overseas would want to invest...

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

Latest news

‘The Godfather’ joins Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

John ‘The Godfather’ Malone has been recruited as a judge for Mortgage’s Got Talent,...

Royal London introduces AI menopause support tool for staff

Royal London has launched an AI-powered tool designed to help employees and managers access...

Your First Home delays could stall first-time buyer market

Delays in launching the government's Your First Home scheme could cause first-time buyers to...

Foundation recruits former Metro Bank BDM to cover eastern region

Foundation has appointed Foz Ahmad as regional account manager for the East, bringing 12...

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