News

Phoenix Group launches Women’s Innovation Forum

Phoenix Group, the long-term savings and retirement company, is inviting organisations to pitch their...

Bluestone Mortgages exits buy-to-let market

Bluestone Mortgages is to focus on the owner-occupied mortgage market and has decided to...

More help needed for prospective homebuyers

50% of current homeowners with a mortgage had support in getting onto the property...

ASTL: bridging loans books at all-time high

The Association of Short Term Lenders (ASTL) has reported that its members' bridging loan...

Halifax predicts “gradual” decline in house prices

Halifax has reported that average house prices fell by -0.3% in July, a fourth...

FIBA expands lender panel

The Financial Intermediary and Broker Association (FIBA) has announced the addition of Onyx Money...

OMS reports 25% application volume rise

One Mortgage System (OMS), the platform for brokers, has revealed that it has seen...

Legal & General Home Finance adds low LTV variants to lifetime mortgage range

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its lifetime mortgage range following adviser feedback. These...

StepChange Financial Solutions adopts finova CRM platform

Finova has announced that its CRM platform will be adopted by StepChange Financial Solutions,...

MFS extends bridging rate freeze to Q4

Market Financial Solutions (MFS) has extended the freeze on its bridging rates until October,...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts all residential fixes and expands product range

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced all residential fixed rates by up to 63bps and...

Time Finance expand asset finance team

Time Finance has announced the appointment of Morgan Lee as broker manager in its...

PEXA joins OPDA executive committee

OPDA, the trade association for open property data, has announced the appointment of PEXA...

Hodge’s professional mortgage more popular with women

Hodge’s professional mortgage statistics have revealed that 58% of its customers in the past...

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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