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Nottingham BS updates interest-only mortgage terms

Nottingham Building Society has announced an update to its mortgage offerings, introducing an update...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts selection of fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced selected fixed rate deals for new applications, with some...

Computershare Loan Services & DPS continue Depaul UK support

Computershare Loan Services and the Deposit Protection Service (the DPS) have donated £40,000 to...

HTB improves specialist buy-to-let, holiday let and semi-commercial criteria

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has made changes to its criteria for specialist buy-to-let, mortgage...

Scottish house prices rise for third consecutive month

The Scottish housing market saw another increase in average house prices in June for...

PRIMIS reveals leading broker queries

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has revealed that the network’s product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

MPowered Mortgages uses ChatGPT to answer one-third of broker queries

MPowered Mortgages has announced the full rollout of its ChatGPT-powered chatbot tool, CriteriaGPT. Following a...

SimplyBiz reveals schedule for its largest training and development programme

SimplyBiz has announced the details of its autumn events programme, offering over 150 options...

House price growth remains subdued

Land Registry has reported that average UK house prices increased by 1.7% in the...

PMS Mortgage Club adds Market Harborough to panel

PMS Mortgage Club, part of Sesame Bankhall Group, has added Market Harborough Building Society...

Free mentoring scheme looking for more mentees

The cross-industry mentoring scheme launched in June by the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI),...

Recognising consumer vulnerability should be a priority

LiveMore is calling on lenders and intermediaries to take particular note of the vulnerability...

Just Mortgages appoints new Midlands area director

Just Mortgages has bolstered its self-employed management team with the appointment of Nigel Smith...

Hope Capital reveals promotions and hires

Hope Capital has announced changes to its sales team to strengthen its proposition. Kim...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let and the next generation of landlords

There has been plenty of discussion recently about the future of buy-to-let, whether landlords can continue to make their investments work, and what the...

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...

Latest news

Marshall and Cooke join Mortgage’s Got Talent judging panel

Mortgage’s Got Talent has added two more industry names to its judging panel, with...

Jane Benjamin to lead Crystal’s specialist finance network and club

Crystal Specialist Finance has appointed Jane Benjamin as managing director of its Network and...

LendInvest recruits Matt Taylor to lead mortgage sales

LendInvest Mortgages has appointed Matt Taylor as sales director, with responsibility for its intermediary...

Income limits could exclude many London buyers from proposed deposit scheme

More than 22% of first-time buyer mortgage applicants in London and Greater London could...

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