Mortgage
Value of outstanding mortgages rises by 3.8%: Bank of England
The total value of all outstanding residential mortgage loans hit £1.65tn at the end of Q2 2022, says the Bank...
Landbay names Dowson as regional account manager for North East
Landbay has appointed Paula Dowson as regional account manager for the North East of England. Dowson has more than 20...
United Trust Bank appoints Patel as director of bridging
United Trust Bank (UTB) has hired Sundeep Patel as director of bridging, with a mandate to grow the bank’s short-term...
Rental growth tops 12%: Zoopla
Rents have jumped by 12.3% over the last year to £1,051 a month on average, according to Zoopla, pushing tenants...
NatWest to increase rates on existing customer product range
NatWest has announced rate increases to its existing customer product range from 13 September. The rate hikes range from five...
Coventry debuts 3-year products for ‘mid-term certainty’
Coventry for intermediaries has launched a range of three-year fixed rate home loans in response to the need for “mid-term...
Weekly rate watch: Two-year fixes lead higher charges
Fixed-rate prices rose in the week to last Friday, Moneyfacts data shows, with the average two-year fix climbing highest, by...
FHA Loans and Home Inspections
We get many questions about the FHA appraisal process. One variation on a common theme? The questions we get involving...
Comment: Give the FCA nothing to see
Our conduct regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, communicates with the industry in a variety of ways. Having set out its...
Editor’s note: Be the change you want to see
Welcome back, to the first issue of Mortgage Strategy since the summer ‘break’. If you managed to turn off the...
CMME adopts Twenty7tec APPLY platform
CMME has partnered with mortgage technology firm Twenty7tec to integrate its APPLY platform, which allows the broker’s users to submit...
Halifax amends keying and verification requirements for certain incomes
Halifax Intermediaries has announced changes to its requirements for the keying and verification of some incomes, effective today (12 September)....
