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Specialist lender Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Steve Seal as director of sales and distribution as part of its...

The implementation of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 offers significant benefits for advisers, according to The Society of...

When choosing a mortgage lender, customer service remains a “definitive priority” for borrowers, results from a Computershare survey found. Computershare, an Australian...

Figures from Accord Mortgages show a jump in remortgage applications over the summer, with borrowers grabbing competitive mortgage deals ahead of...

New data from mortgage lender, Vida Homeloans, found more first-time buyers are seeking lenders for deals that cater to their needs...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has joined Darlington Building Society to introduce exclusive discount mortgages, aimed at first-time buyers, homeowners or...

Lifetime mortgage lender more 2 life has surpassed £1 billion of lending, along with a substantial total loan book value. According to...

The Mortgage Hut has seen a year on year rise of 30% in mortgage applications in August despite the traditional seasonal...

Up to 18% of homeowner’s ready to climb the property ladder find it harder than buying their first home, according to...

Skipton Building Society is aiming to reduce the rates on its interest only mortgage range. The residential interest only range provides 60%,...

Landlords are being urged to remortgage in order to prepare for the reformed buy-to-let lending criteria due to be introduced in...

Shawbrook’s Residential Mortgages team announced that it has lowered the fixed and variable rates on its 55 Plus Interest-Only Mortgage. With interest-only...

First-time buyers accounted for half of all home purchase valuations in July, according to the latest research from Connells Survey &...

President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement earlier this year doesn’t seem to have put a dent in a basic architectural...

TMA Mortgage Club is giving its members an exclusive fee-free 75% LTV discount rate deal following its partnership with The Melton...

Approximately 1,500 members of The Nottingham Building Society (The Nottingham) are to receive a share of a £70,000 ‘cash back’ reward...

A record low in lifetime mortgage rates is driving enquiries about switching plans from existing customers, Bower Retirement say. The specialist retirement...

Pepper Homeloans has been appointed to the mortgage lender panel of Intrinsic Network. Intrinsic will market Pepper Homeloans’ full range of residential...

Accord Mortgages has revealed competitive remortgage options with a £495 fee and the benefit of additional features. The new products from the...

OneSavings Bank (OSB) has announced its new lending criteria for portfolio landlords to help brokers prepare for the PRA Phase 2...

The number of first-time buyers and buyers of investment properties has fallen in the last two years, My Home Move say. First-time...

New Street Mortgages has announced an update to its buy-to-let range with numerous changes. The Northview Group lender has upgraded its five-year...

Members of ASTL have written approximately £3 billion worth of bridging loans in the last year, up from £2.8 billion for...

The Association of Short Term Lenders has announced the first two speakers - Lorna O’Brien of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...

The number of mortgages in arrears has declined in the second quarter (Q2) of this year, being the lowest level since...

Research from Lloyds Bank Private Banking shows that the total household wealth in the UK reached an estimated £10.5 trillion in...

The Mortgage Hut has added new partners including Century 21, Taylor Hill & Bond, Aspire Estate Agents, Property Bee, Home Agency...

TMA has launched a website to support advisers ahead of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) changes coming into action on September...

Legal & General Home Finance has become the biggest provider of lifetime mortgages in the first half of this year (H1). The...

Castle Trust Capital has announced the implementation of its PRA Phase 2 changes, which require a specialist approach to underwriting for...

Argued reasoning is the best way to help second-charge lending gain greater traction in the wider lending market, according to Fluent...

A study revealed that a third of young people would choose to buy and live in a caravan if they couldn’t...

Research from Mortgage Advice Bureau Swindon has found that it is cheaper for Swindon tenants to purchase a new property than...

The latest property renovation hotspots list revealed that Barking and Dagenham is the top location for an increase in renovation applications...

Specialist lender, Pepper Homeloans, has cut interest rates across both its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges by up to 0.70%. All five-year...

New research from equity release lender, more 2 life, has revealed that an emotional connection to their family home prevents retirees...

Legal & General has announced its development of Inspired Villages Group, an operator of later living accommodation which formed out of...

Accord Mortgages has now added more choice to its product range by reducing rates at most LTVs and offering a new...

Roma Finance, the Manchester-based bridging lender, has announced its most successful half year to 30 June 2017. Four of the six months...

L&G Mortgage Club will be hosting another live conference in London this autumn following the success of last year’s event. Attendees will...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has become the latest network to be added to the Mortgage Lender’s distribution panel. Brian Murphy, head of...

Amicus Property Finance recently announced that it has appointed three new senior underwriters with long-standing banking experience. Alan Dorrington, Mark Heckles and...

Fresh statistics suggest the UK’s mortgage market has been boosted again, with approvals for home lending up month on month and...

Bank customers are at risk of paying an extra £400 if they chose not to remortgage after their fixed term deal...

Over three quarters (76%) of advisers recommend taking out private surveys when purchasing or remortgaging a property, according to TMA Mortgage...

Accord Buy to Let has announced details of its lending criteria for portfolio landlords, set to come into effect on 30...

Annette Tilbury has been added to the Foundation Home Loans team as Regional Area Manager for the South East. Having previously worked...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has updated its ‘Buy to Let Matrix’ to include lending criteria on buy-to-let portfolios ahead of...

Furness Building Society (FBS) has confirmed the launch of its improved product range with new competitive discount and tracker products. These new...

Accord Buy to Let has bolstered its range of fixed rate mortgages for landlords with deposits of 25% or more. The lender,...

The commercial and private client practice, JPC Law, has now joined the ranks as an associate member of the Association of...

According to the latest data from mortgage technology provider, Mortgage Brain, the majority of mainstream mortgages have steadily decreased over the...

The most popular reasons for choosing equity release during the first half of 2017 are making home improvements and clearing existing...

Accord Mortgages has confirmed that it will continue to provide free legal assistance or cashback up to £500 to both residential...

Specialist mortgage lender, Foundation Home Loans, has reformed its buy-to-let range with new first-time landlord products. New five-year fixed rate options will...

As I settle into my new role, my commute from Liverpool St Station to Hamilton House takes me right past Bucklersbury...

It’s been announced that Andrew Moss has been appointed as Product Manager at specialist lender Foundation Home Loans. Moss, who will be...

The UK’s first digital mortgage brokerage service for UK buy-to-let landlords has been launched. Property Master, which claims to allow the...

First Complete and Pink have revealed that their mortgage, protection and general insurance sales all reached record highs in 2017. The two...

Paragon Mortgages’ latest Financial Advisors Confidence Tracking (FACT) Index report has revealed that the preference for fixed-rate mortgages reached an all-time...

It's been quite the year politically. Brexit, Trump's election, the triggering of Article 50, a new French President and now another...

Almost a third of mortgage advisers believe that Britain’s exit from the EU will have a positive or very positive effect...

The so-called Bank of Mum and Dad will lend 23% more funds in 2017, putting it on a par with the...

Specialist mortgage lender Vida Homeloans has announced significant changes to its specialist buy-to-let range, enhancing its lending criteria and building on...

Property data firm Hometrack has been appointed by TSB to be its long-term partner for Automated Valuation Model (AVM) services. The analytics...

The mortgage market will reach its highest level of gross lending since the financial crisis during 2017, the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders...

The number of properties available to buy through estate agents in March was the lowest level recorded for the third month...

Research carried out by Equifax Touchstone, analysing the intermediary marketplace, has revealed that Northern Ireland had the highest regional mortgage sales...

Mike Thompson has been appointed to the role of Legal & General’s Operations Director for its lifetime mortgage business. Before joining Legal...

The partnership between TMA Mortgage Club and Mortgage Brain has been extended, with TMA committing to offer Mortgage Brain's latest technology...

The introduction of procuration fees for brokers on its full range of switch products has been announced by Paragon Mortgages.   A fee...

A study has revealed that many British consumers are fed up of mortgage lenders' impersonal and 'computer says no' approach. Research found...

MortgageGym.com, which claims to be the world’s only regulated mortgage robo-adviser, will be launched in the UK in the coming months,...

Gearing amongst landlords remained low in the first quarter of the year, according to Paragon Mortgages, with the average loan-to-value (LTV)...

Buy-to-let mortgage lender Landbay has announced that it has refreshed its product range aimed at both amateur and professional landlords, reducing...

Brokers are encountering fewer difficulties when sourcing mortgages for clients than at any point since the introduction of the Mortgage Market...

HSBC has signed a one-year contract extension with property analytics business Hometrack, securing the delivery of valuation and risk services for...

The Mortgage Lender, known also as TML, has this week announced 12 new hires across its business. One key appointment is Laura...

Equity release lender more 2 life has received accreditation from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) for its adviser webinar programme. The programme...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched two new fee-free high LTV mortgages. The fix then discount products are completely fee-free and...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the names of a selection of industry experts who will be speaking at its...

Comprehensive changes have been carried out by New Street Mortgages to its buy-to-let proposition. The changes, which go live today (28 March),...

Furness Building Society has appointed Euan Ballantyne as its new Head of Products. A seasoned retail and business banking professional, Ballantyne joins...

A quarter of young people believe the only way they'll ever own a home is by inheriting cash, research by Halifax has...

The range and number of mortgage products now available is almost at the same level as before the financial crisis. This is...

The Moneyfacts Group has announced the finalists for its awards ceremony, taking place on June 6 in the Pavilion at the...

Tenet, a Leeds-based mortgage adviser support group, has announced a new partnership with specialist lender Vida Homeloans, the latest in a...

Two competitive fixed-rate mortgages with no upfront fees and added features have been launched by Accord Mortgages. The move has been...

Specialist mortgage lender Vida Homeloans has announced the launch of its new online Residential Max Loan Calculator (‘Max’), which aims to...

Daniel Bailey, an independent mortgage adviser from North Derbyshire, has bagged one of the financial industry’s most prestigious awards. Bailey, director of...

Registration for the Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) Leeds is now open for brokers, IFAs and financial intermediaries. Organisers report that stands have...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has announced that it will distribute its product range via Black Book Finance. Launched last November, Black...

A tie-up between Furness Building Society and First Complete, which will give First Complete advisers full access to Furness’ wide range...

Peer-to-peer mortgage lender Landbay has partnered with mortgage packaging and distribution experts Brilliant Solutions to provide a range of specialist lending...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has appointed Pauline Hibbert as Regional Sales Manager. Once in post, she will have responsibility for...

First Complete and Pink are calling on mortgage brokers to update their landlord clients on buy-to-let tax changes coming into force...

Small deposit buyers were given a New Year boost, with their share of the mortgage market increasing in January 2017. Small deposit...

Mortgage lender Kent Reliance - part of OneSavings Bank - has announced major changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range. The firm...

Broker IMS Independent Mortgage Solutions has been appointed to the Help to Buy South panel of recommended financial advisers. IMS is the...

Specialist mortgage lender Magellan Homeloans has announced it will distribute its full range of mortgage products through the specialist distributor and...