Aldermore, the British challenger bank, has announced it will start lending on residential and buy-to-let properties in Scotland from June 10. The bank, which has been lending mortgages throughout England and Wales since 2010, will be marketing its full product range to brokers based north of the border, who will also have access to Aldermore’s highly acclaimed online case submission and tracking facility...

TenetLime has confirmed a schedule of eight roadshows on mortgages, GI and protection. The CPD-accredited events will include presentations by Assurant, Aviva, Lloyds, Nationwide, PruProtect, Royal London and Zurich, plus ‘mortgage surgeries’ where attendees can engage on a one-to-one basis with lenders and product providers...

The former head of corporate accounts at Nationwide has joined shared equity mortgage specialist Castle Trust. Paul Howard becomes its managing director for mortgages...

Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, has upped its mortgage lending to take second place in market share. Its 15.1% market share puts it one place behind Lloyds and knocks Barclays into third place...

More high-level concerns have surfaced over the Government’s Help to Buy mortgage guarantee scheme aimed at people with only 5% deposits. The International Monetary Fund has warned it could backfire, causing house prices to rise and shutting first-time buyers out of the market after it launches next January...

Bridgewater Equity Release is to hold a round-table workshop event designed to support specialist equity release advisers.   The workshop will allow advisers to ask questions of three equity release experts: Chris Prior of Bridgewater, Peter Barton of Ashfords Solicitors – who will cover the legal implications of equity release – and Gareth Morgan of Ferret Systems who will cover State benefits...

Remortgaging is at a 15-year low, the Council of Mortgage Lenders has said, and is currently running at half the level of early 2008. This is despite the fact that 6...

Mortgage lending rose by 4% last month, and by 21% on April last year. But the Council of Mortgage Lenders warned that “meaningful comparisons” with last April are difficult...