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Saffron BS revamps lending criteria
Saffron Building Society has made major changes to its mortgage lending criteria. The changes being...
4 July 2023
Changing working patterns aren’t supported by automated underwriting
It’s fair to say that our working lives, the way we are paid, the...
2 July 2023
Nottingham BS improves contractor mortgage criteria
Nottingham Building Society has announced the first of a series of changes to its...
21 June 2023
Self-employed couple “saved thousands” by TML’s flexible approach
The Mortgage Lender (TML) has processed a complex, self-employed residential mortgage application in 10...
19 June 2023
Securing a mortgage “harder than arranging a wedding or parenting”
New research commissioned by LendInvest of 1,000 people across the UK, focusing primarily on...
4 June 2023
Tandem Bank ups support for self-employed
Tandem Bank has announced its move to increase the LTV for self-employed clients from...
30 May 2023
Meeting the needs of the self-employed
Historically speaking, self-employed borrowers have faced an uphill battle when it comes to securing...
8 May 2023
Over a quarter of adults with complex incomes have been denied a mortgage
28% of adults with non-typical income streams, including those who are self-employed, freelance, or...
3 May 2023
TML provides self-employed offer in 6 working days
The Mortgage Lender (TML) recently progressed a self-employed residential application to offer in six...
21 March 2023
Rise in ‘unaffordable’ self-employed mortgages
The number of mortgage enquiries from self-employed applicants that failed to find one affordable...
13 March 2023
MBT sees self-employed affordability at lowest level
Affordability for self-employed customers has dropped to its lowest level since records began, according...
4 January 2023
TML provides complex self-employed FTB offer in five days
The Mortgage Lender (TML) has outlined its approach in dealing with self-employed applications, moving...
15 December 2022
77% of self-employed concerned over mortgage prospects
Over three-quarters of self-employed people are concerned about their prospects of getting a mortgage,...
6 December 2022
The self-employed have been marginalised from the mainstream
91% of brokers interviewed and polled for United Trust Bank’s new mortgage white paper...
19 October 2022
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