Mortgage

Comment: Make stamp duty work for everyone

As we approach the end of September and the final throes of the (partial) stamp duty holiday, there is bound...

Coventry for Intermediaries launches FTB range

Coventry for intermediaries has launched a range of mortgages for first-time buyers that offers up to 95% loan to values,...

NatWest pleads guilty to money laundering failures

NatWest has pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering failures. The lender admitted to charges that it failed to...

Hampshire Trust Bank snaps up Wesleyan Bank

Hampshire Trust Bank has agreed to buy Wesleyan Bank from the Wesleyan Assurance Society to boost its presence in the...

Need A Refinance? Avoid Getting Scammed

In 2021, the official site of the Minnesota Attorney General included a page warning consumers not to fall for home...

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%...