Regulation

Y3S completes Together’s first MCD secured loan

Specialist lender Together has revealed that its first second charge Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD)...

FCA orders £939k ‘rent to own’ redress

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says rent to own provider Buy as You View will pay...

Together secures full FCA authorisation

Together has been granted full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its...

MCD is a great leveller, claims broker

The Loans Engine has welcomed the introduction of the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD) into the...

Govt’s BTL action causing rents to rise

Tenants are facing the first rises in market rents since the autumn, according to...

Clever Lending granted FCA credit permissions

Master broker Clever Lending says it is "fully ready" for the new Mortgage Credit...

IMLA: Basel proposals could scupper B&B sale

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders' Association (IMLA) has warned that Basel proposals mean Bradford &...

BUDGET 2016: the speech in full

Mr Deputy Speaker, Today I report on an economy set to grow faster than any...

Landlords divided over government BTL ‘clampdown’

59% of landlords surveyed by property crowdfunding platform Property Partner say they are shelving plans to...

Financial Advice Market Review recommendations published

The Financial Advice Market Review (FAMR) report into access to affordable financial advice and...

New chair for CML Scotland

Carol Anderson has been appointed new chair of the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) in...

Strong approvals performance in February

The latest Mortgage Monitor from E.surv has found that overall house purchase approvals (seasonally...

Conveyancers want stability from Budget 

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has urged George Osborne to "favour stability over continued change"...

Brokers need to keep generating new business

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has warned that brokers could find themselves short of new business now...

COMMENT

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

Latest news

Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...

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