This week’s top headlines: NatWest, Barclays and Virgin make rate changes and FCA boss talks mortgage risk trade-offs in candid chat. Explore these and other major industry updates below: NatWest, Barclays and Virgin make rate changes NatWest, Barclays, Virgin Money and Santander UK have… The post Mortgage Strategy’s Top 10 Stories: 16 Feb to 20 Feb appeared first on Mortgage Strategy.
For much of the past three years, commentary around the mortgage and housing markets has focused on what could go wrong. Higher interest rates, persistent cost-of-living pressures and repeated economic shocks prompted predictions of a sharp correction and a prolonged downturn in lending. Moving into… The post Give clients the good news: Imla appeared first on Mortgage Strategy.
Due to the gift that is LinkedIn, I realised last month that I have now worked at Countrywide Surveying Services for ten years and during that time I have seem several shifts in valuation practice, some gradual and others arriving quickly and staying. Desktop valuations… The post Blog: How virtual inspections are changing the risk profile of desktop decisions appeared first on Mortgage Strategy.
Almost one in 10 firms signing up to the FCA register in H2 2025 gave mortgage advice, according to analysis by ISS Market Intelligence. ISS found that 3,331 firms joined the FCA register in the period, of which 9.4%, or 316, give mortgage advice. Additionally,… The post Nearly one in 10 firms joining FCA register gives mortgage advice appeared first on Mortgage Strategy.
