Opinions & blogs

Is the FPC ditching the wrong measure?

As you will no doubt have read, in a week from now the Bank...

The mutual benefits of professional financial advice

Mutuals have a long history of maintaining a strong presence in the local community...

Longer-term future of buy-to-let market still looking rosy

I’ll be the first to admit that when we ran our latest regular quarterly...

Specialist lenders can help during cost of living crisis

For many millions of people in the UK, these are unprecedented economic times. With...

Mortgage market reviews can always benefit advisers

Boris Johnson’s recent announcement of a new ‘independent review of access to mortgage finance’...

Second charge bridging: fast and flexible funding

The ‘race for space’ that we saw during the Covid-19 pandemic has subsided and...

Working together is crucial to drag conveyancing into the future

While the last few years have been incredibly challenging, one of the positives to...

Making sense of current statistics

Spend long enough at any industry conference and you will inevitably pick up on...

H1 2022: how was it for you?

So, that was the first six months of 2022. How was it for you? I’m...

Rising interest rates – we’ve been expecting you

The reign of the sub-1% base rate is over – for now at least. We...

Personal approach crucial to Consumer Buy-to-let

One of the results of the challenges of the last couple of years has...

The importance of the government mortgage review

When it comes to the recent announcement by the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, of...

The changing face of adviser interaction

Communication is an important part of the mortgage application and indeed the lender-intermediary partnership....

Borrowing into retirement

Borrowing into retirement has become increasingly common in recent years, as the lifestyles and...
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COMMENT

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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