Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026!
Between Christmas and the New Year and alongside occasional and breaking news we will also be publishing 2025 reviews and predictions for the year ahead from leading industry figures. Full...
Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead despite uncertainty following the Budget, latest research from Lendlord reveals.
The...
Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for Evelyn Partners, the wealth management business that oversees close to...
Homebuyers entering the market this Christmas are benefiting from improved mortgage choice and lower borrowing costs compared with a year ago, according to new...
Cynergy Bank has completed its debut securitisation transaction, securing capital relief as it continues to expand its lending to professional landlords.
The bank has successfully closed a cash derecognition residential mortgage-backed securities transaction, Lovelace CBP 01, backed by buy-to-let...
Average combined buildings and contents premiums continued to edge lower last month, according to the latest General Insurance Price Index from Pearson Ham Group, but the scale of monthly falls has now largely flattened.
The data shows that home...
Estate agency Hamptons has raised £150,000 for mental health charity Mind since the partnership began in May 2022.
The total reflects a sustained programme of fundraising activity across the business, alongside a broader focus on mental health awareness and...
Scotland and Yorkshire have emerged as home to the UK’s most active housing markets so far in 2025, according to new research from The Property DriveBuy, highlighting the increasingly localised nature of housing demand.
Using the latest government data...
When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...
Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales.
The paper rightly raises concerns about...
Residential mortgage lender Gen H has extended its internal credit criteria in a move designed to support more first-time buyers who may have experienced minor issues on their credit file.
The lender says changes to its credit score threshold mean that around one in six...
Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026.
JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...
Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house price growth – and in some parts of the South and London, prices actually fell – I think we've reached...
For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...
Chetwood Bank is raising the maximum buy-to-let exposure limit to £10 million for both its ModaMortgages and CHL Mortgages for Intermediaries brands.
The digital challenger bank is doubling both lenders’ previous lending limits of £5 million to help support brokers with clients looking to grow...
