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Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has launched a brand-new suite of buy-to-let and residential products. The company, part of the specialist lending and...

As the industry starts to tighten its criteria, Saffron Building Society is affirming that there is still hope for borrowers as...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries, part of the specialist lending and retail savings group OneSavings Bank plc, has launched a new large...

Legal & General has acquired a 20% stake in the Australian lifetime mortgage business, Household Capital, through its ‘Retail Retirement’ division...

Mortgage costs in the buy-to-let (BTL) market have continued to fall over the last three months, according to Mortgage Brain. Its quarterly...

The number of property purchases supported by Help to Buy ISAs increased by 8% this year, rising from 82,940 in 2017/18...

Both the volume and value of flexible payments from pensions has hit a new high, according to Moneyfacts. Data from the money...

Paragon Bank has improved the way customers can apply for its saving range by introducing a postal application process for selected...

Over a third of people who purchased their mortgage direct from a lender have no protection policy in place, the latest...

Knight Frank Finance has launched a later life finance team, making it the first major player in the property sector to...

Leading room share platform, ideal flatmate, has done research into finding how travelling across London Underground can lead to big rental...

Dudley BS has been working for over 160 years in providing mortgages and saving accounts to customers across a local and...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched a Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgage exclusively through Legal & General Mortgage Club. Members of...

Nottingham Building Society has cemented its position as a leading Cash Lifetime ISA (LISA) provider as it becomes the only society...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has launched four exclusive mortgages for residential Joint Borrower Sole Proprietor (JBSP) applications. All four mortgages are...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society added more than £50 million to its mortgage book in 2018, driven by high levels of...

Over two thirds (68%) of British people think lenders have too much power over borrowers. The findings come from new online polling...

Across the UK adults are signing away the biggest financial contracts of their lives without fully reading or comprehending them, new...

Kent Reliance has announced three new appointments, which it says will help it cope with increased demand from brokers. The firm, which...

Half of BTL brokers still unware of upcoming PRA changes Just over half (54%) of brokers believe that they fully understand what...

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

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...

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

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

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

The annual results published by Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has revealed robust growth in its mortgage lending and savings balances.  In...

Furness Building Society has made another new appointment, this time announcing Philip McLelland as non-executive director.  McLelland, a commercial finance director with...

Specialist mortgage lender Kent Reliance has partnered with The Mortgage Alliance (TMA) to offer a direct submission route for its brokers. The...

InterBay Commercial, part of specialist lending group OneSavings Bank, has strengthened its buy-to-let proposition with simplified pricing and rate drops. By adopting...

Borrowers taking out an offset mortgage have a few days left to be given a helping hand by Accord Mortgages. The...

Following the Bank of England's decision to cut the base rate to 0.25%, a fifth of 18 to 34 year-olds could...

The Association of Expert Mortgage Advisors (AEMA), which accounts for almost half of all mortgage broker business in Ireland, has announced...

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

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

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

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

Fraudsters attacking the conveyancing sector, successfully stealing large sums of money from homebuyers, are making national headlines at a depressing rate....

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...

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...

SearchFlow, property intelligence specialists, has partnered with Decision First to offer an unrivalled service to protect conveyancers and homebuyers from the...

Property experts have warned that Chancellor George Osborne's new Lifetime Isa will do nothing to solve housing supply and affordability problems. From April...

Santander has launched what it claims is a market-leading Help to Buy Isa rate charging 4.00%. The new tax-free savings rate is...

Tomorrow will mark the seventh anniversary of 0.5% interest rates but property experts warn that cheap money won't last forever. The average...

The number of offset mortgage deals on the market has fallen to a five-year low, new research suggests. And the decline is...

Chancellor George Osborne's stamp duty changes saved homemovers more than £4,500 on average last year, new figures show. The Chancellor cut stamp...

Interest rate cuts following the financial crisis have reduced annual mortgage costs by more than £22 billion, new figures show. The 4.5 percentage...

Mortgage rates look set to remain unchanged this year as the Bank of England held base rates once again yesterday. Analysts have pushed back...

A steep rise in debt since last summer 2015 has put more households under financial pressure, new research shows. Income and saving...

More than 7,000 Nationwide Building Society customers opened Help to Buy Isa accounts in the first week. Some have already applied for Nationwide’s Save to...

Two thirds of prospective homebuyers are likely to take advantage of the new Help to Buy Isa yet rates so far...

Leading lenders Halifax and Nationwide have announced how much interest they will be paying on their Help to Buy Isas. The new...

Members of Legal & General’s Mortgage Club now have direct access to Kent Reliance’s mortgage range. Kent Reliance, the specialist intermediary lender...

Specialist mortgage lender Masthaven Finance has applied to become a bank offering home loans and fixed-interest savings. It has now submitted its banking...

The British public remains divided over impact of interest rate rise with almost one in three welcoming the prospect. That rises to more...

More than 600,000 Britons intend to use all or part of their pension to help repay their mortgage balance, new research...

The appetite for longer-term mortgages is soaring as homebuyers look to stretch out their repayments to make them more affordable, new...

Newcastle Building Society Intermediary Services has entered the buy-to-let market with a range of market-leading products for brokers. The society said it will...

Nationwide Building Society will back the new government-backed Help to Buy Isa from 1 December. The new offering will run alongside its...

The salary of the average homebuyer fell 16% year-on-year in June to £34,584, as improved mortgage affordability boosted lower income borrowers. The...

Barclays has cut its residential mortgage rates for deals running over terms of two, three and five years. Highlights from the new...

Recent surveys showed UK rental prices have hit a record high and it shows no slowing down. According to the figures, landlords...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched the only range of four-year offset mortgages available on the market today. It said this followed a...