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Mortgage advisers Larry Barreto and Tassib Hussain have been sentenced for fraud offences following a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct...

There’s been broad support for Santander’s decision that Universal Credit will be considered an acceptable form of secondary income for mortgage...

Leek Building Society has used its annual report and publication of accounts to mount a stout defence of its methodology regarding...

There’s been an angry reaction to news that from today - March 18 - Halifax is changing the maximum age allowed...

April Mortgages has struck a deal for new technology to help it introduce Dutch-style loans into the UK. The new mortgage type...

A building society has launched a pilot project banning mortgage lending on holiday lets in two tourist areas for 12 months. Leeds...

A property agency has analysed the lending and housing markets to work out why so many mortgage applicants are couples. Benham and...

High street bank Virgin Money UK says there is light at the end of the tunnel for mortgages and the housing...

The vast majority of high net worth individuals have faced mortgage rejections and had to accept lower loan-to-value ratios than they...

Shawbrook has become the first bank in the UK to offer limited companies the ability to remortgage using the digital conveyancing...

Three high street lenders - Virgin Money, TSB and Skipton Building Society - have joined the commitment to offer mortgages on...

Some 40 per cent of self-employed individuals think lenders need to be more understanding when it comes to those with complex...

Tomorrow’s King’s Speech, setting out the legislative agenda for the coming year, looks certain to include leasehold reform - and the...

An internationally-ranked chess player who swindled £750,000 through mortgage and tax fraud has been jailed. Robin Moss spent more than £115,000 of...

New data from Experian reveals that one in four mortgages lent to those under 30 now have a term of 35...

Metro Bank customers will now benefit from a smoother house buying process thanks to a new partnership with Legal & General...

First Direct has crunched market data to give an insight into FTB activity over the summer just gone. There are three...

LendInvest has launched automatic DIPs - decisions in principle - as part of its latest platform update. The automated DIP process means...

A study of 7,000 people by a specialist predicts the UK specialist residential mortgage market will treble to £16 billion by...

Metro Bank has undertaken what it calls “a major transformation of its mortgage origination platform” to streamline the process for both...

Saffron for Intermediaries has launched a campaign to help and support broker partners get more self-employed mortgage applications approved first time...

Nationwide says the sharp rise in the costs of mortgages is causing a "significant drag" on the housing market - but...

The FinTech mortgage lender using AI to simplify the mortgage journey for homebuyers and re-mortgagers, MPowered Mortgages, has recently expanded its...

Self-employed individuals are twice as likely to be rejected for a mortgage, a new report from The Mortgage Lender (TML) shows. Its...

A new partnership between Hometrack and Mortgage Brain is set to provide a ‘game changing’ solution that streamlines and digitises the...

Some 3.2 million adults in the UK have missed some form of major payment over the last two years as the...

New research from The Mortgage Lender (TML) reveals that 34% of UK adults planning to buy a home in the next...

This week’s mortgage roundup is a range of reduced rates and new products across the mortgage market, with Furness Building Society’s...

In the first mortgage roundup of 2022, Introducer Today takes a look at the latest mortgage news, from Landay’s bolstered Green...

Hometrack, the leading provider of insight and intelligence to the UK mortgage market, has launched a Broker AVM, building on its 20-year...

One in three mortgage customers in the UK were rejected by lenders during the process of applying for loans, research from...

Hometrack, the leading provider of insight, intelligence and decision automation to the UK mortgage market, has launched a brand new vision...

According to new figures released by Mojo Mortgages, UK homeowners are now borrowing more money from mortgage lenders than ever before...

New data has found that 89% of mortgage advisers believe first-time buyers need more education on purchasing a property and what...

As the first stage of the stamp duty holiday (SDLT) draws to a near close on June 30 2021, many homebuyers...

The past year has seen many people experience a change in their financial circumstances. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in work-life changes...

More than eight out of 10 brokers use the affordability calculator of up to six lenders when sourcing a single case,...

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the housing market in a major way and has only added pressure for banks to give...

Sales of holiday homes near the coast have surged over the past six months with holiday let mortgages for properties in...

The UK housing market has boomed over the past year, with buyers and sellers benefitting from recent initiatives. But how have...

Mortgage technology solution providers Twenty7Tec and Eligible ai have partnered to encourage advisers to use technology that will retain existing clients. The...

Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group chief executive officer of Mortgage Brain. Bilgrami joins the company after 11 years as chief...

More than one in four (29%) of buyers don’t believe their credit score is ‘good’ or ‘excellent’, according to specialist mortgage...

Together has updated its criteria to allow more automatic property valuations to reduce costs and speed up mortgage applications. The specialist lender...

Mortgage distributor Fluent Mortgages has become the latest business to integrate with Mortgage Brain’s new multi-lender submission and application gateway, Lendex. Lendex...

The Society of Mortgage Professionals has urged brokers concerned that a customer is attempting to commit mortgage application fraud to under...

Mortgage, lending and banking customer relationship management (CRM) system, eKeeper, has successfully integrated DocuSign’s eSignature functionality into its intermediary-focused CRM, MortgageKeeper. The...

Mortgage broker CLS Money has partnered with FinTech specialist Nivo to provide its customers with a fully branded ‘white labelled’ app. The...

Mortgage applications will soon be as simple as buying car insurance for many borrowers, as technology begins to revolutionise the housing...

Nearly three quarters (71%) of the UK’s growing self-employed population believe their employment status makes it harder to get a mortgage,...

HL Partnership (HLP) and Mortgage Support Network (MSN) have announced that they will host a series of eight regional conferences in...

Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is the first UK lender to go live with an innovative digital system developed in Denmark. Developed...

Buy-to-let specialist TBMC has been added to the Family Building Society specialist packager panel. The firm will offer a range of buy-to-let...

Over one in five (22%) consumers said they would want to use a branch-based mortgage advice service, according to a new...

The mortgage industry is failing to keep up with modern borrowers, according to a new study conducted by Together. It revealed that...

Landbay has chosen Oracle NetSuite to create a more accessible buy-to-let mortgage marketplace for investors, borrowers and brokers. Through NetSuite, Landbay will...

Intelenet Global Services has launched a new ‘Lending Suite’ to help banks generate mortgage offers in as little as 30 minutes. The...

Mortgage Brain’s next generation lender gateway, Lendex, will now be used as a digital mortgage transaction tool by nine major lenders. Lendex,...

UK lenders were given an insight into Mortgage Brain’s vision and technology strategy for the next generation at three exclusive events...

Over three quarters (76%) of first-time buyers’ mortgage applications via intermediaries resulted in a completion in Q1 2018, the highest number...

Some 81% of UK homeowners who purchased a home in the last year would consider a mortgage broker if they were...

A round of crowdfunding by digital start-up Property Master that started in January has already beaten its £250,000 target. The start-up uses...

The majority (74%) of mortgage applications via intermediaries for first-time buyers resulted in a completion during Q4 2017, according to the...

Shawbrook Commercial has strengthened its lending team with the recruitment of Anthony Harrison as the lending manager of commercial property. With nearly...

Yorkshire Building Society has seen a surge in fixed rate mortgage applications from borrowers ahead of a potential Bank of England...

Specialist lender Pepper Homeloans has announced that it will change its name to Pepper Money and will also be launching a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A significant rise in people re-mortgaging to improve their existing homes could hit the new-build property market during 2017, mortgage broker...

Digital mortgage broker habito has raised £5.5 million in investment funding.  The firm says it will use the money to enhance the...

Poor credit scores are denying prospective property buyers from being granted mortgages, a new study has revealed. The research into the nation's...

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

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

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

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...

Brokers have more choice than ever before with the number of mortgage products hitting an all-time high in March. However, new mortgage application...

March saw a sharp drop in buy-to-let valuations activity as landlords ran out of time to beat the stamp duty surcharge on 1 April. Valuation activity dropped...

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched two new competitive products to meet continued growth in the self-employed market. It said this will help meet the...

Kensington has moved to paperless application processing as part of a wider shake-up aimed at making it easier for intermediaries to...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is to begin offering instructing valuations on day one in a bid to improve its mortgage speed-to-offer. From Monday, it...

The forthcoming Brexit referendum is fuelling a surge in mortgage enquiries from worried buyers and owners. They fear mortgage costs will increase if...

Kent Reliance has launched a new mortgage proposition for one-year self-employed professionals. The specialist mortgage lender for intermediaries bolstered its proposition for...

Accidental landlords are most at risk of being caught out by Chancellor George Osborne's tax raids and new EU mortgage legislation,...

Landlord attempts to escape George Osborne's tax crackdown have triggered a 2000% rise in the number of limited company buy-to-let mortgage applications. New...

Newcastle Intermediaries has made enhancements to its online systems to create a more streamlined mortgage application process for brokers. The lender is introducing...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has launched an online mortgage application tracking system that allows brokers to monitor individual customer mortgage applications. The Mortgage...

A businessman who masterminded one of the UK’s biggest mortgage scams has been jailed for five-and-a-half years. David Purdie, 57, appeared to...

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has reduced its loan-to-income (LTI) maximums for mortgage applications up to 85% LTV. It has reduced its maximum LTI...

Yorkshire Building Society has launched a new scheme allowing borrowers to gain a mortgage approval in principle via its website. Borrowers can...

The number of remortgages grew strongly in May as homeowners took advantage of rising house prices and the lender price war...

Young borrowers increasingly expect to be paying their mortgage into retirement as they stretch themselves to get on the housing ladder. Around half of...

Improve mortgage affordability is helping borrowers on lower incomes to climb the property ladder. Mortgage applications surged 18% in March in response to...