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Major high-street bank HSBC has announced that it is expanding the availability of its mortgages through four additional brokers. The new brokers...

Two competitive variable rate products specifically for loans between £300,000 and £500,000 have been launched by Furness Building Society. Suitable for loans...

The latest Broker Sentiment Survey by bridging lender MTF has found that delays to mortgage applications have caused brokers the most...

New research carried out by Legal & General has revealed that brokers in Scotland are more confident about the future of...

The Society of Mortgage Professionals has confirmed that membership has broken through the 8,000-barrier for the first time. “It’s an affirmation of...

The majority of brokers surveyed by Legal & General say they either currently recommend or would recommend later life lending or...

The NACFB’s annual survey results aren’t in yet but there is one prediction I feel I can safely make. The total business...

Lender Precise Mortgages has launched a retention program for customers coming to the end of their initial fixed or discount deals...

TMA Mortgage Club, part of the LSL Property Services Group, has announced that is has secured a panel position with The...

Despite intense speculation that interest rates would be cut, the Bank of England has confirmed that its base rate will remain...

Santander and Legal & General have announced a new five year agreement to offer lifetime mortgages to Santander customers. The arrangement aims...

The NACFB is sometimes perceived as being an Association of commercial mortgage brokers and asset finance brokers, forgetting the other 20%...

Kent Reliance, part of the OneSavings Bank Group, has announced the launch of its new low mainstream LTV product range. With low...

The winner of Furness Building Society's Euro 2016 football predictor for intermediaries has been announced.  Jerome De Jonk of Lighthouse Wealth has...

Average house prices dipped by 0.4% between April and May, according to the latest figures from estate agents Your Move and...

Leeds Building Society has launched a new 2 year 70% LTV Buy to Let fixed rate product, available exclusively to the...

Teachers Building Society has announced the launch of a Help to Buy mortgage which will be discounted for two years. The new...

Two new consumer buy-to-let products have been launched by Furness Building Society. This follows an announcement by the firm that it...

Rates for borrowers looking to secure a longer-term deal have been slashed by Accord Mortgages, with a 0.15% reduction on selected...

Back in 1980 I took out my first mortgage to buy a flat in Birmingham. The flat was very affordable and...

A Euro 2016 football predictor for intermediaries has been launched by Furness Building Society. The winner will receive a prize of £250...

This month the Legal & General Mortgage Club has announced the winners of its annual awards. The awards – which recognise excellence...

Mortgage Intelligence (MI) has added Kent Reliance to its panel of mortgage lenders. Part of OneSavings Bank, the specialist lender will provide...

A new mortgage calculator is to allow prospective buyers considering shared ownership to work out the total cost of purchasing a...

House prices in the three months to May were 9.2% higher than in the same three months a year earlier, according...

Specialist lender Pepper Homeloans have added Ryan Brailsford to their team as Regional Development Manager for the North. Brailsford, whose role involves...

A green mortgage research project called LENDERS is asking all householders in the UK for their help in completing a survey...

House prices in Greater London have topped £600,000 for the first time ever, new figures show. Prices increased by 14.9% over the...

Homemovers have just registered the highest success rate for turning mortgage applications into completions. Some 80% of homemover applications led to an...

Skipton Building Society has removed its maximum loan size cap for first-time buyers. It said this follows a 20% increase in UK house...

Kent Reliance has launched a new mortgage retention product that pays a broker procuration fee. The lender, part of specialist lending group...

Nationwide is reducing selected fixed rate and tracker mortgages by up to 0.25%. It will cut fixed rates up to 75% LTV...

Paragon Mortgages has updated its buy-to-let product range for professional landlords and unveiled six new products. The range includes two-year fixed rate products...

Buy-to-let investors have started selling off properties as Chancellor George Osborne's tax crackdown begins to bite. Demand is also likely to fall...

Almost four out of 10 finance brokers enjoyed a busy start to 2016 but most rate the economic outlook as "fair" rather...

More than 1.6m homeowners have bought home insurance from their mortgage lender and many mistakenly believe they cannot switch for a...

House prices in British seaside towns have increased by an average £440 every month for the last decade, new figures show. Prices...

Lenders remain positive about prospects for the buy-to-let market despite the Chancellor's tax crackdown. This is despite the fact that most expect the market to...

TMA has launched a new general insurance proposition that lets advisers quote and apply for residential household insurance from a panel...

Brokers and mortgage experts have given a thumbs down to Government proposals to introduce seven-day mortgage switching. The proposal, outlined in the...

First-time buyer sales soar last month as landlords abandoned the market following the introduction of the new stamp duty surcharge on 1...

More than eight out of 10 of brokers plan to include second charges in their advice process this year. A new survey...

Remortgage lending leapt 48% by value in the year to April to hit £6.4 billion, the largest sum recorded since November...

Nine out 10 borrowers are opting to fix their mortgages despite little sign of forthcoming base rate hike. Historically low mortgage interest...

The average London property may come with an eye-watering price tag of £550,000 but the real cost of buying is even...

Residential property transactions plunged by almost half in April in the wake of a bumper March. The seasonally adjusted estimate fell by 45.2% last...

Paragon Mortgages has almost doubled its buy-to-let lending in just six months. New buy-to-let lending hit £823.6 million for six months to...

Computershare will service three out of every five outsourced UK mortgages from next month, the company has confirmed. This follows its Government appointment to...

The gap between mortgage rates at different LTVs has narrowed dramatically, making life easier for borrowers with small deposits. Mortgage rates for borrowers...

Newcastle Intermediaries has become the latest lender to announce it is raising its stress test levels for buy-to-let mortgages. It is increasing...

Furness Building Society has launched a new first-time buyer mortgage charging 3.50% to 95% LTV. There is no product fee on the two-year...

Housing market sentiment remains strong with most owners optimistic about the future despite market uncertainties, new research shows. Households in all UK...

Fewer homeowners are remortgaging to increase the size of their loan, with less than a quarter doing so in April. However, the...

Tottenham Hotspur may have missed out on the Premier League title but the local property market has claimed the house price growth...

Gross mortgage lending fell 29% in April following the rush to beat the new stamp duty surcharge on buy-to-lets and second...

Family Building Society and National Counties Building Society have re-affirmed their longstanding commitment to lending to older borrowers. While many lenders have...

Skipton Building Society has launched a revised range of two and five-year fixed rate residential mortgages with rates lowered by up...

The housing market could suffer from construction skills deficit and plunging rental demand if the UK votes to leave the EU...

Increases in buy-to-let lenders’ stress test levels should not be viewed as an ‘Armageddon moment’ for the sector, an industry expert...

One third of UK mortgage holders don't know what interest rate they are on, new research shows. This means that than 5 million people...

Buy-to-let mortgage sales surged by 163% in the year to March as landlords raced to beat the new stamp duty surcharge...

Tesco Bank has announced plans to increase the number of intermediaries offering its mortgages. Customers can now access Tesco’s range of mortgages...

One in seven mortgage and remortgage customers are racing to complete their application before the EU referendum on 23 June. More than...

Brokers and intermediaries place two thirds of all their mortgages with just three preferred lenders, new research shows. The typical mortgage intermediary uses...

The supposed slowdown in the London property market is a “myth” as the majority of Londoners see prices continue to rise. While...

Barclays Mortgages is cutting rates for home buyers and movers across its two and five-year fixed rate range from today. A new...

The surge in buy-to-let transactions in the run-up to the stamp duty surcharge on 1 April has left first-time buyers facing...

Legal & General Mortgage Club has partnered with technology firm Twenty7Tec to provide brokers with a second charge sourcing solution. This follows...

Kensington Mortgages has cut prices across its range of buy-to-let mortgages. It is reducing rates on products carrying a percentage fee by 25 basis...

Mortgage advisers are concerned about about the longer-term prospects for buy-to-let, with half now predicting a decline in business. Although advisers saw...

The price of the average home in London broke through the £600,000 price barrier in April for the first time, Home values in...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched the lowest fixed rate mortgage on the market, a two-year deal charging 1.17%. It is available to borrowers...

Demand for UK property has dipped for the first time in 12 months in the latest sign of housing market weakness. However,...

Investors remain positive about the prospects for buy-to-let despite the new stamp duty charge and forthcoming crackdown on mortgage tax relief. The latest...

Brightstar has announced that its specialist sourcing system and case management tool EasySource will launch for intermediaries shortly. The system, sponsored by...

Almost three out of 10 property purchases have fallen through in the past five years, largely due to conveyancers holding up...

Mortgage distributor 3mc has generated Kensington’s first packaged case to go to offer since the lender returned to the market last...

First-time buyers are "increasingly desperate" to buy a place of their own as the housing crisis deepens, new research shows. Today, 73%...

UK house price growth slowed more than expected in the three months to April, further evidence of a slowing property market. House prices in...

New research shows that mortgage fees are starting to increase with the average fee increasing by £40 in the last six...

Nationwide has announced that it is cutting fixed rates on smaller deposit mortgages. The building society is reducing selected fixed rate mortgages...

Nationwide Building Society is increasing its maximum age for mortgage maturity from 75 to 85. This follows last week's move by the...

Mortgages for Business now allow users to search specifically for buy-to-let mortgages for limited companies. The changes have been made in a...

The surging remortgaging sector has helped to offset April's seasonal housing market slowdown, new figures show. Total valuations carried out in April rose...

Barclays Bank has this week introduced a new 100% loan-to-value mortgage, aimed at helping struggling first-time buyers get onto the property...

The cost of servicing a mortgage for buyers with small deposits has fallen sharply over the past 12 months, according to...

Halifax bank is offering a £750 incentive to mortgage borrowers who move their loan from a rival lender. The deal was...

Increasing levels of rents around the UK have softened the blow of recent rises in stamp duty levels for landlords, according...

The average cost of tracker mortgages is on the increase as the result of falling demand from borrowers, according to Moneyfacts.co.uk. The...

Government-backed plans to impose new restrictions on the availability of buy-to-let mortgages are likely to be bad news for tenants. That is...

UK parents will lend or give more than £5billion over the course of 2016 to help their children get onto or move...

New data showing a sharp decline in property affordability in the UK capital will put pressure on the new London mayor...

A new report from Halifax has found that delays in getting on to the property ladder could force many people to...

Just one in five of the UK’s landlords believes there is still money to be made in the buy-to-let market, new...

The areas of the UK with the highest levels of unemployment have seen the lowest rates of house-price increases over the...

The latest edition of the Bank of England’s Money and Credit Figures show mortgage lending was strong in the first quarter...

Two sets of industry data published yesterday suggest that house price growth is finally starting to slow. Nationwide's figures showed annual house price...

First-time buyer activity grew strongly in March as they fought back against property investors. Total first-time buyer transactions 32,500, the highest monthly...

The supply of rental properties plunged in the run-up to the new stamp duty surcharge on 1 April and further falls are...

The number of landlords planning to buy a new buy-to-let property has dropped by a third since the stamp duty surcharge...