News

Paragon makes criteria changes and rate reductions

Paragon Bank has reduced rates on five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages by up to 70bps,...

UTB cuts bridging rates and lowers minimum loan size

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made a series of changes and rate reductions of...

LiveMore cuts over-50s’ mortgage rates

LiveMore has further reduced mortgage rates across its entire range of products by up...

Atom bank cuts prime and near prime rates

Atom bank has lowered its prime mortgage rates by up to 0.30 percentage points...

Chetwood Financial appoints COO

Chetwood Financial has announced Julian Hynd as its new chief operating officer (COO). Hynd...

Brokers more optimistic about year ahead than 12 months ago

Crystal Specialist Finance has surveyed over 10,000 brokers for the second year running and...

StrideUp makes fixed rate reductions of 80bps

StrideUp has cut rates on its two, five and 10-year fixed rate products by...

MFS cuts residential bridging and BTL rates

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has cut rates across its residential bridging and buy-to-let mortgage...

Mansfield BS introduces new lifetime discount option

Mansfield Building Society has relaunched residential mortgage products linked to a Lifetime Discount follow-on...

The Co-Op Bank to release new fixed rates

The Co-operative Bank for Intermediaries has announced the launch of its latest product range. The...

Newcastle Intermediaries makes residential mortgage rate cuts

Newcastle Intermediaries has reduced rates by up to 0.65 percentage points across its range...

SortRefer extends roundtable event programme

SortRefer is holding a series of exclusive roundtable events around the country for mortgage...

Foundation Home Loans unveils limited edition 5-year BTL fix

Foundation Home Loans has launched a new limited edition five-year fixed rate buy-to-let product. ...

Clydesdale Bank cuts pricing on select BTL and residential products

Clydesdale Bank is to reduce the pricing on selected mortgage products on Friday 5...

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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