Welcome to this week's Mortgage Update. Please take the time to read through the update as there may be some information that is important to you. Our lender updates include: Nationwide: low deposit mortgage solution for new build homes Pepper Money  our simple approach to specialist lending continues Precise Mortgages: speeding up our valuation [...]

Welcome to this week's Mortgage Update. Please take the time to read through the update as there may be some information that is important to you. Our lender updates include: Virgin money make changes to there fixed rate mortgages NatWest to make changes to New Business product range HMO with up to 10 beds? [...]

Please see below the latest communication from Skipton Building Society for Intermediaries. We would appreciate it if you could please share this with your network as soon as possible, and include it in any of your own comms. Bank of England Base Rate Today the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee announced a 0.25% [...]

Following today’s decision by the Monetary Policy Committee to increase the Bank of England Base Rate to 0.75%, we’re increasing our tracker mortgage rates. Our updated tracker rates will be available from 18 March 2022 and reflect the change to the Bank of England Base Rate. Our tracker differential will stay the same. What [...]

Isn’t it refreshing when things are just simple? No-one needs more complexity in their lives, right? This is exactly why we’ve taken the time to simplify our residential range. Our new 4 tier range means getting the best rate for your clients is easier than ever. Take a look at what we’re doing to [...]

In a recent UK survey, over 49% of the construction industry workforce were officially classed as self-employed and over 1.1 million of them were paid with the government CIS scheme*. Your customers can choose between using their SA302's or their latest 12 months vouchers, meaning they may be able to increase the amount they [...]

As of 17th March 2022, Foundation Home Loans have introduced a new range of specific products for landlords looking to purchase or remortgage a buy to let specialist property including Short Term Lets and standard HMOs (up to 6 occupants) that have an EPC rating of A-C. Products in the new range will have [...]

When it comes to buy to let, it could be argued that we have seen more changes in the last five years than the previous 20. But as the adage goes, change brings opportunity. Most recently it was announced that all newly rented properties in England & Wales will be required to have an [...]

We’ve conducted some research and published an in-depth report on adverse credit, what it means for mortgage applicants and what brokers can do about it. The results surprised us and we’d like to share our findings some from the survey and social creative for you to utilise with your advisors and it you see [...]

Halifax Product Changes On Wednesday 16 March 2022 Halifax are making the following changes to the product range: Semi-exclusive Remortgage • All 5 year products with free legals withdrawn Please view the attached rate guide for further details of the product change. To secure existing product codes, please submit mortgage applications in full by [...]