The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed on buyer demand, sales activity and house prices, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) residential market survey.
The September 2026 survey...
L&G has extended its Adviser Academy webinar programme to help financial advisers address a wider range of client needs, including retirement income, inheritance tax...
Almost eight in 10 homeowners have made no specific preparations to protect their properties from extreme weather, despite growing concerns about the risk of...
Almost two-thirds of mortgage brokers identify proving overseas income and affordability as the biggest obstacle when arranging mortgages for expatriate borrowers, according to research...
LSL Financial Services has appointed Matt Surridge as propositions director, a newly created position overseeing the development of broker services across its Primis network...
The Black Mortgage Professionals and Allies Network (BMPAN) has launched a new framework aimed at improving racial equity and career opportunities across the mortgage industry.
The BMPAN Standard sets out practical measures that organisations and individuals can adopt to...
Scottish Building Society and Edinburgh-based fintech Malted AI have won the Best Fintech Collaboration award at the 2026 Scottish Financial Technology Awards for their work using artificial intelligence to analyse customer interactions.
The partnership brings together the world's oldest...
Around 45,000 Lifetime ISA savers incurred more than one withdrawal penalty during the 2024-25 tax year, with average cumulative charges of £760, according to figures obtained by savings app Plum.
The data, released by HMRC following a Freedom of...
Phil Riches is to retire as sales director of Keystone Property Finance later this month, bringing to an end a financial services career spanning five decades.
Riches (pictured) has spent the past 14 years with the specialist buy-to-let lender,...
Business development managers (BDMs) have long played an important role in the relationship between lenders and brokers.
Traditionally, much of that relationship has centered around...
John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...
The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...
Ireland has increased the maximum support available to first-time buyers under its Help to Buy scheme to €35,000, as the UK government prepares to unveil its own new homeownership scheme.
The €5,000 increase was announced as part of Ireland’s 2027 Budget and is intended to...
Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has been secured, brokers remain tied to a transaction they cannot fully see, or control and put in time chasing information...
The government’s announcement of the Your First Home scheme is genuinely positive news, and anything that boosts confidence among first-time buyers and people trying...
Mortgage Advice Bureau has added Gable Mortgages to its lender panel, giving its advisers access to the lender's 100% LTV proposition for borrowers without a traditional deposit.
The addition is aimed at first-time buyers struggling to build a deposit, as well as home movers whose...
