Top ten mortgage broker stories this week – 04/12/2020

Expanded ranges, rate cuts, new entrants and criteria changes are what made advisers sit up and take notice the most this week.

In top spot, was Santander’s decision to add more high LTV deals to its range and its Brexit-focussed lending criteria changes was the third most read story of the week.

Despite Halifax’s announcement late in the week that it too would re-join the 90 per cent LTV market, for first-time buyers only, it was still the fourth most popular story such is the buzz around the next big lender to come back and support low deposit lending.

Here’s this week’s top ten stories on Mortgage Solutions:

Santander adds high LTV mortgages and fee-free range

TSB adds more 90 per cent LTV mortgages as Halifax and BM Solutions tweak rates

Santander makes mortgage lending criteria changes ahead of Brexit

Halifax re-entering 90 per cent LTV mortgages

Two-year fixed rates at 90 per cent LTV now highest for almost six years

NatWest requires payslips for furloughed borrowers returning to work

Reliance Bank reintroduces key worker mortgages up to 90 per cent LTV

Precise head of sales Jamie Pritchard exits firm

Compare the Market launches online execution-only remortgages

‘Every application is a battle’ but the crisis is driving change – Marketwatch