Mortgage

Broker Focus: Gerard Boon, founder and director, Boon Brokers

Describe your firm in a few sentences. Boon Brokers is an independent mortgage, insurance and equity release brokerage. It is...

The Nottingham cuts rates and lifts LTVs on RIO range

The Nottingham has cut rates on its trio of retirement interest-only products. The mutual adds that it has lifted the...

InterBay Commercial launches BTL range with 25bps rate cuts

InterBay Commercial has launched a new buy-to-let range with all rates cut by 25 basis points and has removed all...

Comment: An unusual phenomenon – net repayments

The latest Bank of England statistics show that borrowers repaid £1.4bn of mortgage debt on net in July following record...

Gatehouse cuts BTL and home finance rates

Gatehouse Bank has made rate reductions of up to 45 basis points on its buy-to-let (BTL) products and 31 basis...

Mortgage Broker Tools adds Octane Capital to BTL affordability panel

Mortgage Broker Tools has added Octane Capital to its buy-to-let MBT Affordability research platform panel. The lender says it specialises...

Monthly growth at highest level since 2007: Halifax

House prices rose at their fastest monthly rate since 2007 in September, increasing by 1.7% to £267,587 and by 7.4%...

Buckinghamshire Building Society cuts rate, lifts LTVs on joint borrower loans

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates on its prime mortgages, and lifted the loan to value on joint borrower sole...

Pure launches flexible equity release range

Pure Retirement has launched a range of lifetime mortgages that offer higher LTVs and give more flexibility to borrowers wishing...

Accord Mortgages to launch discounted range of BTL loans

Accord Mortgages will launch a new range of buy-to-let loans tomorrow (7 October). The broker-only lender says the discounted standard...

Federal Disaster Relief For FHA Borrowers In Montana, New Hampshire

The 2021 disaster season has seen a large number of federal disaster area declarations; that combined with a global pandemic...

Universal Credit cut to sow arrears crisis: NRLA and charities

Landlord groups and charities are warning of rising rent arrears and dire consequences for families as Universal Credit is cut...