16+ hour, 41+ min ago   (250+ words) Residential remortgage searches rose 11% year on year in August, but overall mortgage search activity slowed during the summer, according to the latest Twenty7tec Mortgage Market Snapshot. It found that 1,556,758 mortgage searches were completed in August, down 13% compared with July but up…...

15+ hour, 51+ min ago   (262+ words) Introducer Today Mortgage Brain adds Gable to sourcing platform Brokers gain access to lenders’ range of zero-deposit products Mortgage Brain has added Gable Mortgages to its product sourcing platform, Sourcing Brain, to allow brokers to quickly research Gable’s range…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (356+ words) Gross mortgage lending increased by 11.1% compared to the previous quarter, rising to £77.4 bn and 31.7% higher than a year ago, according to the latest Mortgage Lenders and Administrators Return (MLAR). The outstanding value of residential mortgage loans increased by 0.8% from the…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (196+ words) Marsden Building Society has changed its expat buy-to-let mortgage criteria, to streamline the application process for intermediaries. The simplifications include removing the minimum income requirement, reducing documentation requirements for employed and self-employed applicants – for example, self-employed applicants now only require…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (258+ words) More than a million homeowners who took out mortgages in 2024 face a £283 hike in monthly payments or more than £3,000 a year as they move onto their lender’s SVR, according to a Freedom of Information request by Compare the Market from…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (370+ words) Newcastle for Intermediaries has extended its Affordability Boost proposition to new-build purchase applications up to 95% LTV. The feature allows customers who select a qualifying longer-term fixed-rate mortgage to benefit from an affordability assessment aligned with the product’s longer-term payment certainty,…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (257+ words) More than half (58%) of would-be first-time buyers believe that existing debt would prevent them from being approved for a mortgage, while more than a third (37%) believe that they must find a 20% deposit. The survey of more than 1,000 prospective UK first-time…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (347+ words) Mortgage intermediaries are handling the highest levels of business in 16 years, but their confidence about the wider market outlook has fallen, according to the latest Mortgage Market Tracker from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA). Its figures show that intermediaries…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (296+ words) BetterHome Group is expanding its investment in the UK intermediary market by funding Josewin’s acquisition of Mortgage Support Services (MSS). Josewin is the parent company of HLPartnership and a number of mortgage and protection intermediary businesses, while MSS is the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (269+ words) Fintech company Instamo, which helps improve connectivity across the mortgage market, has announced the launch of FastAdmin, a product it claims is an intelligent post-submission automation solution and its next step in removing bottlenecks in the mortgage journey. It follows…...