Mortgage

Comment: It’s not time to party just yet

Falling rates, and competition heating up — at the start of 2024 it felt like our sector had a spring...

Comment: A get-out-of-jail card for mortgage prisoners

There are 200,000 mortgage prisoners in the UK, ensnared in high-interest mortgages and unable to sell or remortgage. Some have...

New housing drives uptick in construction activity in January: ONS

There are signs that the slump in the construction market may be bottoming out, with a modest increase in output...

Pepper Money and Coventry reprice product ranges

Pepper Money has repriced its product range in response to rising SWAP rates. The specialist lender has increased all products...

Metro Bank lifts mortgage book, plans to boost specialist lending  

Metro Bank saw its retail mortgage lending rise 2% to £7.8bn compared to a year ago, adding that it expects...

Atom bank appoints new regional BDM

Atom bank has promoted Samantha Windle to be a new regional business development manager. In her new role, Windle will...

Halifax lowers maximum working age on selected products

Halifax Intermediaries has lowered the maximum working age from 75 to 70 on selected lending products. This change will apply...

Aspen Bridging revamps sales team with two new hires

Aspen Bridging has made two new appointments to its sales team as it looks to double the size of the...

Mortgage product shelf-life’s tumble to 15 days: Moneyfacts

The average shelf-life of a mortgage product tumbled to a six-month low of 15 days, data from Moneyfacts shows, as...

FCA data shows mortgage market not fit for purpose: Perenna

The outstanding value of all residential mortgage loans decreased by 0.1% from the previous quarter to £1,658bn and was 1.1%...

L&G Home Finance extends tailored pricing to lifetime products

Legal & General Home Finance has extended individual pricing to its recently launched payment term lifetime mortgage product. The business...

Four in ten landlords set to renew mortgages this year: TML

Four in ten landlords with a mortgage are due to renew their loans over the next year and believe their...