News

Pivotal Growth acquires two Northern Ireland firms

Pivotal Growth has acquired Select Mortgages & Financial Solutions and has agreed to acquire...

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries improves product transfer and further advance propositions

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries has introduced a range of enhancements to its product...

CHL Mortgages cuts CHL 2 rates

CHL Mortgages has lowered rates by up to 0.78% on its CHL 2 product...

Roma Finance hires business development manager pair

Roma Finance has appointed Amer Watson and Shahed Popat as business development managers (BDMs). ...

Keystone Property Finance improves broker portal

Keystone Property Finance has made changes to its broker portal to make it easier...

Positive Lending expands regional sales team

Specialist packager, Positive Lending, has announced the addition of Sophie Burton to its account...

Optimum Finance appoints risk and recoveries manager

Optimum Finance has appointed Steve Chapman to manage and lead its risk and recoveries...

West One Loans eases BTL stress test requirements

West One Loans’ buy-to-let division has cut rates by up to 70 basis points...

MT Finance adds AVMs to bridging offering

MT Finance has announced its introduction of automated valuation models (AVMs) to its bridging...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts all fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced all fixed rates, with lowered options available for new...

Landbay revamps five-year fixed rate product range

Landbay has announced a major rate reduction across its entire standard five-year fixed rate...

Hope Capital improves employee benefit scheme

Hope Capital is investing significantly in its internal wellbeing and benefits scheme, myHOPE. ...

Broker advice “still vital” for protection consumers

New research by the Exeter has found that a clear majority of UK workers...

West One Loans lowers residential rates and overhauls criteria

West One Loans has reduced its residential rates by up to 100 basis points...

COMMENT

Growth can hide a lot – until it stops

Since getting involved with Rotherham United Women I've realised football and business have quite a lot in common. One thing in particular: growth can hide...

Nobody wants your ‘market update’

You sent the same email on Monday that everyone else sent. Moneyfacts had just put the average five-year fix at 6%, the first time in...

The industry needs to support Shared Ownership

This week, I want to put the spotlight on Shared Ownership. It deserves to be treated as a genuinely viable route onto the ladder,...

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...

Latest news

Majority of first-time buyers now face higher mortgage payments than rent

More than half of first-time buyers moving from rented accommodation into homeownership are taking...

Foundation gains workplace accreditation after 93% staff approval

Specialist lender Foundation has secured Great Place To Work certification after 93% of its...

‘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...

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