Mortgage

Platform and Foundation Home Loans trim mortgage rates

Platform and Foundation Home Loans are the latest lenders to trim rates on selected mortgage products. Platform will cut rates...

West One Loans launches five-year fixed rate mortgage products

West One Loans has launched its limited edition five-year fixed rate mortgage products for borrowers including first-time buyers and remortgage...

Molo Finance to use landlord income and ICR in affordability assessments  

Molo Finance has launched landlord affordability assessments that allow single borrowers to use their income to support mortgage payments, rather...

First-time buyer economy worth £74bn by 2025, study finds

The value of first-time buyer (FTB) economy is set to reach a total of £74.1bn by 2025, a new study...

Dynamo for Intermediaries adds Kuflink to lender panel

Dynamo for Intermediaries has added Kuflink to its lender panel. The mortgage club, founded in 2012, says the move means...

Melton Building Society targets first-time buyers with shared ownership product range  

Melton Building Society has launched a range of new mortgage products to offer potential homeowners a variety of choices to...

Gen H lowers resi rates by up to 27bps 

Gen H has cut residential fixed-rate offers by up to 27 basis points for the second time in a fortnight....

Harpenden Building Society increases proc fees to 0.30%

Specialist lender Harpenden Building Society is increasing its procuration fees for mortgage product transfers to 0.30%. The mutual, which is...

Rents drop 11% as summer heat subsides

The lettings market saw a dip in rental prices in October, following three months of rapidly escalating prices across England....

Landbay and Keystone offer range of sub-5% landlord rates 

Landbay has cut its landlord rates by up to 20 basis points starting at 4.09%, while Keystone Property Finance offers...

HMRC figures show transactions falling 19% year on year

The provisional non-seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of UK residential transactions in September 2023 is 92,600, 19% lower than...

Scottish Widows pulls out of resi, remo markets to focus on later life lending  

Scottish Widows Bank will pull out of the house purchase and remortgage markets to focus on equity release loans later...