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SmartrCriteria sees surge in searches for self-employed clients
New data from Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool has shown that searches...
30 May 2022
Self-employed twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage
Self-employed individuals are twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage, according to...
25 May 2022
Vida improves criteria for contractors
Vida has unveiled a series of changes to its criteria for borrowers who are...
4 April 2022
Kent Reliance for Intermediaries introduces new residential proposition
Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has revamped its residential mortgage offering to give wider access...
3 April 2022
Brokers reveal most problematic mortgage applications
Research by broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, has found that mortgage applications for self-employed clients and...
17 March 2022
Newcastle Intermediaries relaunches deals for newly self-employed
Newcastle Intermediaries has unveiled a new range of mortgages exclusively for self-employed applicants with...
7 March 2022
Clydesdale simplifies self-employed documentation requirements
Clydesdale Bank has reduced the documentation required to support applications from self-employed customers. The lender...
24 January 2022
Skipton reverts to pre-Covid self-employed contractor policy
Skipton Building Society is changing policy to make it easier for self-employed contractors when...
6 December 2021
Hinckley & Rugby ups maximum self-employed LTV
Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has increased the loan to value (LTV) is offers...
2 December 2021
Borrowers with variable incomes still face lower maximum loan sizes
Borrowers who have an element of variable income are being offered an average maximum...
17 November 2021
Clydesdale Bank improves self-employed contractor mortgages
Clydesdale Bank Intermediaries has improved its criteria for assessing mortgage applications from self-employed contractors. The...
30 September 2019
The Beverley improves self-employed criteria
The Beverley Building Society has made changes to its self-employed mortgage criteria, which will...
27 June 2019
Pepper revises self-employed mortgage criteria
Pepper Money has made changes to its criteria for self-employed borrowers and will now...
26 June 2018
Pepper Money unveils new criteria to tackle “interesting” cases
Pepper Money has made changes to its product range with the stated aim of making...
9 April 2018
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