News

Fall in green mortgage awareness

Awareness of green mortgages is falling among homebuyers, according to new research from Mortgage...

LendInvest Mortgages cuts buy-to-let rates by 80bps

LendInvest Mortgages has significantly reduced its buy-to-let rates. Its new range now has rates starting...

Paradigm publishes latest Insights videos

Paradigm has launched the latest iteration of its Mortgage Market Insights videos. These are a...

Bluestone Mortgages cuts residential and RTB rates

Bluestone Mortgages has made rate reductions across its residential and Right to Buy product...

Half of Gen X struggling to clear mortgage before retirement

27% of Gen X - those born between 1965 and 1980 - are not...

Leeds BS unveils new year mortgage rate reductions

Leeds Building Society has made reductions on products across its mortgage range. the cuts are...

Property professionals want government to prioritise regeneration

25% of commercial property professionals believe more government support for repurposing disused buildings and...

Three-quarters of BTL landlords upbeat about 2024 market

New research from The Mortgage Lender (TML) has found that 74% of residential buy-to-let...

£973m paid out in Stamp Duty in November

Homebuyers paid £973m in Stamp Duty in November 2023, according to Coventry Building Society’s...

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank offer multiple pre-completion product switches

Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank have improved their product switching policy for pipeline cases....

Bridging Finance Solutions outlines growth plans

Bridging Finance Solutions (BFS) has revealed plans to expand by a further 25% in...

Two-thirds of people look at retirement planning without support

19% of Britons have spent sleepless nights worrying about retirement planning, according to new...

High costs cited as barrier to offering health & wellbeing support

Towergate Health & Protection has released research designed to help firms who are putting...

EPC target possible but not without challenges

91.5% of properties with a known EPC in the UK could meet future target...

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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