Skipton Building Society has increased the maximum loan-to-income multiple available through its LTI Booster range as it looks to give borrowers greater scope to meet affordability requirements.
From 5 October, eligible applicants borrowing up to 90% loan-to-value can access...
Accord Mortgages is reducing every fixed rate in its residential new business range by 0.10 percentage points.
The changes take effect from 8am on 6...
More than half of consumers who made or considered making a formal complaint about a regulated service used artificial intelligence during the process, new...
BetterHome Group UK has appointed former Connells Group executive Anthony Glasgow as chief operating officer as it develops its operations in the UK.
Glasgow (pictured)...
Leeds Building Society is urging brokers to consider the mortgage options available to lower-paid first-time buyers, saying eligible applicants earning around £30,000 could potentially borrow up to £165,000.
The mutual has used Office for National Statistics earnings data to...
Disabled consumers continue to face uneven treatment across financial services, with new research highlighting differences in how disability-related benefits are considered in mortgage affordability assessments.
A report commissioned by Fair4All Finance and produced with PwC found that some disability-related...
Access FS has integrated Iress mortgage and protection sourcing data into Elev8, the CRM platform used by 300 of its advisers.
Elev8, which was developed for Access FS by Evolve Tech Solutions and launched last month, combines customer relationship...
Most consumers who abandon the protection buying process could still be persuaded to take out cover, according to early findings from the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries' 2026 Protection Viewpoint study.
Research among 3,000 UK consumers found that, depending on...
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...
There is a tendency to think the mortgage adviser’s involvement in conveyancing begins with recommending a firm and then largely ends once the client...
Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them?
Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...
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 to get onto the ladder deserves to be welcomed.
As ever with an announcement of this nature, the devil will be...
Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...
It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the more interesting numbers sit further down the page, and I suspect that may be the case with the latest Hamptons...
Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market.
Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...
LSL Financial Services has appointed Paula Mercer as sales director with responsibility for sales activity across Primis and TMA Club.
Mercer (pictured) joins the mortgage distribution business after more than 18 years in financial services, most recently as sales director at LendInvest.
She has also held...
