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A new report reveals the latest trends in UK lending and borrowing, compiled by lending software company Lenvi. The most notable trends include...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
The majority of buyers and sellers in the prime housing market will not be deterred by the upcoming General Election, claims...
17 April 2024
From: Breaking News
Monthly payments on some 123,000 home loan accounts were cut in the first eight months of the government’s Mortgage Charter. The...
15 April 2024
From: Breaking News
A think tank is urging the UK government to initiate mortgage market reforms to promote higher home ownership. The Social Market Foundation...
27 March 2024
From: Breaking News
New Mortgage Lenders and Administrators statistics for Q4 2023 paint a very worrying picture of the mortgage market. That’s the view of...
20 March 2024
From: Breaking News
The Financial Conduct Authority is working with 12 lenders and administrators to probe the interest-only mortgage market. The number of IO and...
28 February 2024
From: Breaking News
It’s been a torrid time for rates, going back up for HSBC, Santander, TSB, Virgin Money, NatWest and many other mainstream...
26 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association reveals that confidence has returned to the mortgage market,...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
By Jonathan Samuels, chief executive of specialist property lender Octane Capital, writes: The Bank of England’s decision to hold interest rates on...
14 February 2024
From: Breaking News
Unbiased, a platform for connecting with prospective clients, has slashed charges it imposes on mortgage advisers for a second consecutive month. Unbiased...
12 February 2024
From: Breaking News
The number of mortgages offered to home buyers went up from 49,300 in November to 50,500 in December, against the normal...
05 February 2024
From: Breaking News
MPowered Mortgages is changing its lending criteria for Tier 2, high-skilled foreign nationals across its range of products. It says this forms part...
31 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The negative effects of higher mortgage rates on affordability were overestimated throughout 2023 with house prices having dropped one one to...
29 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The UK’s residential mortgage market has started 2024 with the biggest choice of products for prospective borrowers in over 15 years. A...
17 January 2024
From: Breaking News
The Conservatives are working on a series of schemes to help first time buyers to be unveiled at the Budget in...
03 January 2024
From: Breaking News
Falling swap rates - already falling over the past month - have dropped further following better-than-expected inflation news, triggering speculation over...
27 December 2023
From: Breaking News
UK Finance has published its housing and mortgage market forecasts for 2024 and 2025 together with projections for 2023 full year numbers. Key figures for 2023 In...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Mortgage rates are predicted to fall next year as lenders take advantage of cheaper funding, after figures show that average swap...
20 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Since the peak in July, the average five year fixed mortgage rate has reduced from 6.11 to 5.07 per cent while...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
With the Bank of England maintaining base rate - as expected - at 5.25 per cent, the broker community ends 2023...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
More lenders have green mortgage deals on the market now compared to a year ago, according to the Mortgage Advice Bureau. Some...
18 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Some 40 per cent of self-employed individuals think lenders need to be more understanding when it comes to those with complex...
11 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Lenders are offering more fixed deals with incentives since the start of last month - November - but analysis by Moneyfactscompare...
04 December 2023
From: Breaking News
Nationwide has reduced selected mortgage rates by up to 0.43 per cent across its New Business, Switcher, Additional Borrowing, Existing Customers...
27 November 2023
From: Breaking News
New data from Legal & General - based on searches to its Ignite platform - suggests a diverse mortgage market during...
22 November 2023
From: Breaking News
Following analysis of its 2023 buy to let mortgage market data, Twenty7tec has reported a significant fall in searches for buy...
20 November 2023
From: Breaking News
A range informal media briefings on behalf of the UK government suggest that an extension of the current mortgage guarantee scheme...
30 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A residential mortgage lender is using AI to help brokers attract more customers as well as engage existing customers. MPowered Mortgages says...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
UK mortgage holders are repaying record amounts of mortgage debt, according to the Equity Release Council. But the ERC claims high levels...
25 October 2023
From: Breaking News
A new analysis of the UK’s buy to let mortgage market shows just how much it’s grown over the past decade,...
18 October 2023
From: Breaking News
It’s now one year since former Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ill-fated mini-budget, which acted as a catalyst...
04 October 2023
From: Breaking News
The number of three-year fixed mortgage products available from lenders has been rising over the last few months as borrowers coming...
02 October 2023
From: Breaking News
Data from mortgage research and sourcing platform Legal & General Ignite reveals a significant spike in searches for Interest Only products...
13 September 2023
From: Breaking News
First Direct has crunched market data to give an insight into FTB activity over the summer just gone. There are three...
13 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A body called the Landlord Leaders Community is pledging “to drive positive change for a sustainable and thriving private rented sector.” Set...
13 September 2023
From: Breaking News
After six consecutive weeks of mortgage rate reductions - and the expectation of more soon - there are hopes of sub-5.0...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
Belvoir - fast becoming as big a force in financial services as in property - has snapped up a regional mortgage...
11 September 2023
From: Breaking News
A study of 7,000 people by a specialist predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion by...
04 September 2023
From: Breaking News
The Howden Group, which acquired leading UK mortgage broker SPF Private Clients last year, is expanding further into the mortgage market...
30 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Brokers are up in arms about alleged profiteering by buy to let mortgage lenders’ arrangement fees. These jumped last autumn as a...
23 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The latest Mortgage Market Tracker from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association shows surprisingly upbeat market sentiment among advisers during the second...
21 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Finance tech company Twenty7tec has produced mortgage market statistics for July 2023 - and it’s not all bad news… July was the...
16 August 2023
From: Breaking News
The Co-operative Bank has bagged the entire Sainsbury’s Bank mortgage portfolio of some 3,500 customers with balances of £479m. Sainsbury’s customers are...
14 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Bluestone Mortgages is quitting the buy to let sector and says it will focus entirely on the owner-occupied mortgage market. It has...
14 August 2023
From: Breaking News
Metro Bank has undertaken what it calls “a major transformation of its mortgage origination platform” to streamline the process for both...
25 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Legal & General’s new Ignite platform has seen a rise of 53 per cent in one month for broker searches for...
18 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Saffron for Intermediaries has launched a campaign to help and support broker partners get more self-employed mortgage applications approved first time...
18 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Companies representing some 85 per cent of all mortgage lending have signed up to a new charter. The lenders claims they have...
04 July 2023
From: Breaking News
Property portal OnTheMarket - the third major portal, behind clear market leaders Rightmove and Zoopla - has launched OnTheMarket Money, a...
20 June 2023
From: Breaking News
There’s a growing optimism about the outlook for the mortgage market, according to the latest Mortgage Market Tracker report from the...
16 May 2023
From: Breaking News
Gifts and loans from the Bank of Mum & Dad (BOMAD) totalled £8.8 billion in 2022, according to the latest analysis...
21 March 2023
From: Breaking News
Capricorn Financial Consultancy has released its market expectations for 2023, predicting that the UK mortgage market will have to acclimatise to...
24 January 2023
From: Breaking News
Technology firm, OneDome, has bought CMME Mortgage and Protection for an undisclosed sum. Describing itself as the world’s first eHomebuying platform, OneDome...
17 January 2023
From: Breaking News
A new mortgage market analysis by Octane Capital claims that the number of mortgage products available have dropped 41%, compared to...
13 December 2022
From: Breaking News
The FinTech mortgage lender using AI to simplify the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgagers, MPowered Mortgages, has recently expanded its...
13 October 2022
From: Breaking News
End-to-end mortgage platform, Smartr365, reveals that the majority of brokers believe tech to be fundamental to the future of the mortgage industry. Smartr365's...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
As governmental changes sweep through the nation, countless elements within the property sector have been affected, including mortgages. Market analysis by specialist...
27 September 2022
From: Breaking News
We don’t like being the bearer of bad news, but a market analysis carried out by mortgage broker, Henry Dannell, reveals...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
More2life announced that a sixth product will be added to its innovative range of services. The new product goes by the name...
18 August 2022
From: Breaking News
Recently, MPowered Mortgages, the fintech mortgage lender using AI to enhance the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgages, announced it has...
09 August 2022
From: Breaking News
There has been some significant developments internally for Moneyfacts Analyser, the UK’s leading online residential mortgage analysis system. The recent update has...
04 August 2022
From: Breaking News
A recent change in mortgage rules that required lenders to check whether homeowners could afford repayments at higher interest rates has...
23 June 2022
From: Breaking News
Last week (June 16), the Bank of England increased the base rate by 0.25%, up from 1.00% to 1.25%. In response, Moneyfacts.co.uk...
21 June 2022
From: Breaking News
The Prime Minister used a housing speech in Blackpool yesterday to outline plans for a wide-ranging review of the mortgage market and housing...
10 June 2022
From: Breaking News
The UK is leading the way when it comes to the might of the mortgage sector and the number of properties...
02 June 2022
From: Breaking News
This week’s roundup takes a look at the latest in the mortgage market, from L&G’s latest addition to its lender panel...
26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
As far as the UK Government is concerned, the threat from COVID is over. In its wake, a new battle, the...
22 March 2022
From: Breaking News
New research from The Mortgage Lender (TML) reveals that 34% of UK adults planning to buy a home in the next...
01 March 2022
From: Breaking News
This week’s mortgage roundup is a range of reduced rates and new products across the mortgage market, with Furness Building Society’s...
01 February 2022
From: Breaking News
A webinar poll conducted by Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has highlighted that four out of five consumers still confuse a mortgage...
23 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Hometrack, the leading provider of insight and intelligence to the UK mortgage market, has launched a Broker AVM, building on its 20-year...
16 December 2021
From: Breaking News
Hometrack, the leading provider of insight, intelligence and decision automation to the UK mortgage market, has launched a brand new vision...
21 October 2021
From: Breaking News
There has been an increase in demand for financing to fund home refurbishment projects over the past six months. That is according...
24 September 2021
From: Breaking News
A new membership-based community has launched for marketing professionals in the mortgage sector. The Mortgage Marketing Forum promises to provide knowledge, support...
27 August 2021
From: Breaking News
Broker optimism has increased since the beginning of 2021, according to a recent survey from savings accounts, bridging loans, development finance,...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Roma Finance has launched new bridging and development ranges with improved rates and enhanced criteria. The new bridging range, called RomaPrime, is...
22 July 2021
From: Breaking News
Legal & General has announced the return of its Virtual Summer Conference which takes place today and tomorrow (July 6-7 2021). The...
06 July 2021
From: Breaking News
West One Loans’ buy-to-let (BTL) division has released new products to meet increased demand in the market. The raft of new product...
01 July 2021
From: Breaking News
The latest mortgage search activity data from Legal & General Mortgage Club (L&G) shows signs that the market is beginning to...
17 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Roma Finance completed a record month in May, reporting a 50% increase in pipeline business on top of the 100% increase...
15 June 2021
From: Breaking News
Mortgage technology provider Twenty7Tec has completed an APPLY integration with Accord. The move will enable users of CloudTwenty7 to seamlessly submit applications...
18 May 2021
From: Breaking News
Legal & General has integrated with mortgage and protection network HLPartnership to simplify access for advisers using the SmartrCriteria and SmartrFit...
25 March 2021
From: Breaking News
Adviser-facing resources have been released in recognition of the equity market predicted to pick up in 2021. Pure Retirement has put together a...
16 March 2021
From: Breaking News
EQ Credit Services (EQCS), a UK credit technology and outsourced services provider, has announced the ‘Go Live’ of its mortgage servicing...
05 March 2021
From: Breaking News
2021 looks set to be another year of change in the mortgage market, with the second charge market seeing the biggest...
16 February 2021
From: Breaking News
Searches for ‘self-employed’ and ‘defaults’ became the most popular in December, according to new research from criteria search specialist Knowledge Bank. Knowledge...
12 January 2021
From: Breaking News
Specialist lender Together has raised the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) across its first and second charge mortgage products to 70%. The finance firm...
22 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Twenty7Tec provides another rundown on the mortgage market two weeks after lockdown 2.0 ended. Following its analysis of the mortgage market in...
08 December 2020
From: Breaking News
Twenty7Tec, a mortgage technology platform, has released the latest figures on the state of the mortgage market one week after Lockdown...
17 November 2020
From: Breaking News
Creating blogs and articles isn’t always the easiest task for mortgage professionals, particularly when you consider that client meetings, calls and...
30 October 2020
From: Marketing & Social Media
For a number of years now, HM Land Registry (Land Registry) has been one of the most innovative and forward-thinking government...
30 October 2020
From: PropTech
Over the last ten years, the mortgage market in the UK has changed significantly. Alongside increased regulation of the industry, stricter...
30 October 2020
From: Legislation, Regulation & Compliance
Despite Covid-19, the average mortgage value for purchasers is up 12.4% compared to the same period in 2019, according to data...
18 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Responsible Life, a later life lending specialist, is reporting a 52% annual surge in lifetime mortgage sales, as retirees increasingly look...
07 September 2020
From: Breaking News
Virgin Money has become the latest lender to join Lendex, the new multi-lender application and submission gateway from Mortgage Brain. Lendex allows...
03 September 2020
From: Breaking News
More than twice as many principals, advisers and administrators worry about the impact of a second coronavirus lockdown than about Brexit,...
24 August 2020
From: Breaking News
Despite ongoing coronavirus woes, buyers can look to benefit from record low rates and the mortgage market remains open for business. That...
10 April 2020
From: Breaking News
Hanley Economic Building Society has become the latest addition to the lending panel of SimplyBiz Mortgages – expanding its presence within...