This week’s top five stories are:
Landlords warned to check deposit schemes by June deadline
Landlords are being urged to check tenants’ deposits have been stored in a government-protected scheme by 23 June or they could be liable to pay the occupants of their property compensation.
Buy to let is not a secure retirement option – Waterson
If the litmus test for retirement income was security and peace of mind, then buy-to-let investment would not pass, writes Nigel Waterson, Chairman of the Equity Release Council.
For Your Clients: Get ‘Help over the Hurdles’ for the self-employed borrower
In association with Your Mortgage, Precise Mortgages has produced a digital guide to the self-employed mortgage market, Help Over the Hurdles, ready for you to send on to your clients.
Exclusive: Stonebridge Group agrees investment deal with Shepherd Direct
Mortgage and protection network Stonebridge has agreed to sell national property services Shepherd Direct a minority stake in the independently-owned business.
Second charge and bridging sourcing system launches
Brokers will be able to source second charge and bridging loans alongside mainstream mortgage products by using a sourcing system from technology company Twenty7Tec.
Here’s some you might have missed…
All the highlights of the 2015 AMI dinner
The annual AMI dinner was held on 4 June at the Park Lane Sheraton. Here’s a selection of the best photos from the night.
How to think like an underwriter: self-employed applications
Precise Mortgages invited Mortgage Solutions along to the London leg of its broker workshops on an underwriter’s approach to self-employed mortgage applications.
Busting the myths surrounding second charge lending
Here we outline some of the ways in which second charge mortgages can work for brokers, despite some common misconceptions.
Barclays ups LTV for part-and-part borrowers
Barclays has changed its part-and-part lending criteria to allow borrowers whose repayment vehicle is the sale of the property to take a 75% loan-to-value (LTV) mortgage.
Dudley BS broker-only strategy causes surge in mortgage lending
Dudley Building Society’s mortgage lending increased by 68% year-on-year to £52.2m distributed exclusively through the intermediary sector.
