Opinions & blogs

Summer presents opportunity for mortgage service catch up

August is peak holiday time and there’s no doubting that due to this, and...

Valuations and the dangers of making up the difference

Like religion and politics, house prices are a topic that is sure to spark...

Changing working practices will fuel specialist mortgage growth

To say the UK workplace has changed over the past few years would be...

100 up, but who’s counting…

The concept of building a network followed a few conversations with directly authorised introducers...

Why the Bank of Mum & Dad isn’t going anywhere

This is an interesting time to be active in the mortgage space, particularly when...

The holy grail for lending

Ask any mortgage or credit provider to name their top 10 customer origination challenges...

Panel managers can be vital ally in avoiding legal delays

Buying a home is rarely a speedy process. Tackling that issue is one of...

London market pick up is good news

The London housing market often marches to its own beat and while what is...

PII is not a simple tick-box exercise

Calling something a ‘tick-box exercise’ generally deems it to be trivial or certainly an...

Putting your clients in the strongest position to move

The overall volume of property transactions may be lower than the heightened activity of...

Questions to open up commercial opportunities

One of the most critical challenges that brokers consistently face is ensuring that enough...

Second charges: source criteria to make informed decisions

We know from our conversations with mortgage brokers that the cost of living situation...

Why brokers value flexible buy-to-let lenders

Despite the many challenges landlords face, the truth is that the rental market remains...

Don’t leave clients in the dark about conveyancers

At our business, we speak to a lot of advisers who have got to...
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Fixed rates

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

Building societies need to start putting intelligence into motion

If you were at the Building Societies Association Annual Conference in Edinburgh last month , you could not have missed the optimism: the sector...

Beyond the walk: Mortgage leaders talk mental health – part 21

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter's (MIMHC) third annual 144-mile Walk & Talk challenge finally came to an end on Friday 15th May as...

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The Mortgage Works signals buy-to-let rate reductions

The Mortgage Works is cutting rates by up to 0.22 percentage points across selected...
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Accord reduces residential and buy-to-let rates

Accord Mortgages is cutting rates across its residential and buy-to-let ranges. The intermediary-only lender said...
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Leek BS launches five-year buy-to-let fixed rate

Leek Building Society has added a five-year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage to its intermediary...
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LendInvest unveils 10bps buy-to-let rate cuts

LendInvest Mortgages has reduced rates across its two-year and five-year fixed-rate buy-to-let products by...

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