Mortgage industry mental health survey returns for fifth year

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) has launched its fifth annual Mental Health & Wellbeing Survey, calling on mortgage and specialist lending professionals to share their experiences of workplace wellbeing. The survey opens today and is aiming for...

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TwentyCi appoints Spencer Wyer as chief product officer

TwentyCi has appointed mortgage technology specialist Spencer Wyer as its new chief product officer. Wyer joins the residential property market intelligence provider after more than...

Gen H cuts New Build Boost rates

Gen H has reduced rates across its mortgage range for the third time in three weeks, including a 15 basis point cut to its...

LiveMore launches 2+3-year fixed rate mortgage

LiveMore has launched a new 2+3-year fixed rate mortgage, for customers over forty. The product provides the security of a five-year fixed rate mortgage with...

Royal London revamps income protection offering

Royal London has updated its income protection offering, introducing new features designed to reflect modern working lives. The insurer said the changes are built around...

A new PM brings a new opportunity to rethink housing policy

Politics, as it seems to do in recent times, has moved at remarkable speed over the last couple of weeks. In what feels like the blink of an eye, Andy Burnham has gone from being Mayor of Greater...

PEXA UK appoints CEOs as Joe Pepper steps down

PEXA UK chief executive Joe Pepper will step down at the end of June, with Krystle Kocik and Simon Wright appointed as co-chief executive officers from 1 July. The change forms part of a new leadership structure at PEXA...

LendInvest launches semi-commercial BTL lending products

LendInvest has launched a new semi-commercial proposition within its range of buy-to-let products. The lender’s newest proposition will be across two and five-year fixed rate terms, starting at 5.94% and available for individuals and corporations that meet its Tier...

more2life urges FCA to mandate signposting of all later life lending products

more2life chief executive Dave Harris has called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to make it mandatory to signpost all available products to older borrowers, including equity release. The call comes after the FCA's director of retail banking Emad...

PROFILE

Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate

Last year mortgage technology specialist Fignum appointed Steve Carruthers as growth director, signalling its intent to scale its operations and deepen its role as...

INDUSTRY COMMENT

New product launches bring renewed competition to protection market

The protection market has seen a flurry of product launches in recent weeks, with Beagle Street and Guardian bringing much needed change and innovation...

With great power comes great responsibility

There has been a huge amount in the press about the “feudal” system of leasehold and how the government’s revitalised commonhold will fix all...

Don’t rein me in

For many years, major financial institutions and large retailers have understood the benefits of presenting their customers with complementary products alongside their core offering. Banks...

More questions now surround the home moving digital journey

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has published its highly anticipated Home Buying and Selling Reform Roadmap, representing the most aggressive...

Stability has value: why the latest Bank Base Rate hold matters

The Bank of England's decision to maintain Bank Base Rate (BBR) at 3.75% may not have generated the excitement that often accompanies a rate...

If you motivate an idiot you just get stupid things done quicker

There's a lot of excitement about artificial intelligence in the mortgage industry right now. Nearly nine in 10 mortgage brokers want technology to play...

Q&As

BUY-TO-LET

Fleet Mortgages expands buy-to-let range with new products and lower rates

Fleet Mortgages has introduced new buy-to-let products, reduced rates across its Standard, Limited Company...

Coventry for intermediaries cuts fixed rates across residential and buy-to-let range

Coventry for intermediaries has cut rates across its fixed mortgage range, with reductions available...

Family Building Society launches BoE tracker mortgages

Family Building Society has launched a new range of Bank of England tracker mortgages...

The Mortgage Works cuts buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works has reduced buy-to-let mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points...

Paragon Bank appoints business development manager for Scotland

Paragon Bank has appointed Holly Morrison as a business development manager (BDM) for Scotland. Morrison...

GB Bank cuts rates across core BTL range

GB Bank has reduced rates across its buy-to-let core range, with rates now starting...

Accord trims rates across residential and buy-to-let ranges

Accord Mortgages is reducing rates across its residential and buy-to-let product ranges for the...

RAW Capital Partners records strongest month for lending completions

Specialist lender RAW Capital Partners achieved a record month for loan completions in May,...

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

FIRST-TIME BUYERS

Political clarity should benefit homebuyers

It’s been another positive week for the mortgage market, with lenders continuing to reduce rates across the board. Encouragingly, there’s every expectation that this trend will continue, providing further confidence across the market as we head into the second half of the year. While there’s...

Nationwide cuts mortgage rates for third time this month

Nationwide Building Society has reduced mortgage rates by up to 0.25 percentage points across...

Gen H and Just Mortgages tool to help shared ownership borrowers move to full ownership

Just Mortgages and Gen H have introduced a new calculator designed to help shared...

Mortgage rates have surged since Brexit vote, says L&C

The cost of borrowing has risen sharply in the decade since the UK voted...

Renters face decades-long wait to save a first-time buyer deposit

A third of aspiring homeowners are saving £100 a month or less, leaving many...

OPINION

AI for brokers: the three lines you should never cross

Most AI advice aimed at advisers is either breathless hype or vague caution. Here is something you can actually act on: a practical way...

Hobson’s Choice: Which root canal treatment would you prefer, Sir?

Now that Andy Pandy from ‘oop norf’ is de facto the Prime Minister elect...

Buy-to-let: reality versus a much-peddled narrative

Every few months, it seems, another report emerges suggesting buy-to-let no longer stacks up...

A week of progress and reassurance

The past week has brought further reassurance for borrowers. With the Bank of England holding the base rate as expected and inflation remaining steady at 2.8%, the latest data reinforces confidence that the housing market is continuing to move in the right direction. While we're...

ABS 2026 review: Economic factors stemming growth

As the Global ABS conference ended there was no doubt that it was a huge success, with official numbers being confirmed at 5,500 attendees,...

DISTRIBUTION

AR market consolidates as revenues rise despite fewer principal firms

The UK's appointed representative market is becoming more concentrated, with fewer principal firms overseeing...

Fintel chair and TMG chief rescue Rotherham United Women

Rotherham United Women Football Club has been rescued from the brink of extinction after...

TRM Network promotes Amy Wilson to new propositions role

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has promoted Amy Wilson to the newly created...

Nomo joins Paradigm panel to expand access to GCC property investors

Shariah-compliant property finance provider Nomo has joined the lender panel of Paradigm Mortgage Services,...

L&G Mortgage Club appoints key relationship manager

L&G Mortgage Club has appointed Gurpreet Chahal as key relationship manager to support broker partnerships and collaboration across the intermediary market. Chahal (pictured) will act as a senior contact for networks, clubs and key intermediary partners, with responsibility for managing and developing strategic relationships and...