Rightmove’s 2025 Greener Homes Report indicates that the overall energy efficiency of UK homes is still improving, but at a sluggish pace.
Although the rental sector continues to outperform the resale market on average efficiency, recent legislative ambitions have...
Zephyr Homeloans has raised procuration fees for intermediaries and cut pricing on its fixed-rate buy-to-let products as competition intensifies across the specialist market.
The lender...
Roma Finance has been named finance partner for the national rollout of the Refurb Calculator, a digital platform offering developers faster and more accurate...
Stamp duty revenues increased substantially in the past financial year as activity returned to the housing market following two years of subdued dealmaking.
New figures...
StreamBank has overhauled its bridging proposition, introducing a simplified three-part structure designed to make case placement easier for brokers.
The bank’s refreshed suite now groups loans into residential, commercial and refurbishment categories, following feedback from intermediary partners who sought...
Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £6 million refinance for an experienced landlord with a £100 million London portfolio, marking the second stage of a wider restructuring.
The deal follows an earlier £7.5 million refinance completed during the...
More2life has introduced a series of changes designed to broaden later life lending options for advisers and their clients, beginning with a cut to the Early Repayment Charge period on its Flexi products.
The ERCs will now apply for...
Hanley Economic Building Society has refreshed its residential lending criteria, aiming to accommodate a broader range of income profiles and give brokers more scope to place cases that fall outside conventional parameters.
The most significant change is the removal...
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...
For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...
Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...
Precise has announced a series of changes to its residential range as the specialist lender continues its overhaul of the proposition this year.
The latest updates include enhanced affordability measures, wider access for borrowers with adverse credit and improved options for new build buyers.
The lender...
The bridging market has continued to strengthen this year. Data from the Bridging and Development Lenders Association shows loan books at record levels, reinforcing how central short-term finance has become in today’s investment landscape.
What we are seeing now is a bridging market that plays...
Making protection relevant and keeping customers engaged is a vital part of the advice process.
Yet the recent Association of Mortgage Intermediaries’ Protection Viewpoint 2025...
Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy has appointed Talbots Law to its panel, giving advisers access to a new specialist team handling transactional cases.
Talbots Law is an employee-owned firm operating across Worcestershire, Shropshire, Cheshire and the West Midlands. The practice helps more than 20,000 people move home...
