Gatehouse Financial Group has sold its build-to-rent platform to Apollo in a move designed to accelerate its retail banking and home finance ambitions.
The disposal of Gatehouse Living Group (GLG) marks a strategic pivot away from institutional residential investment...
Mercantile Trust has promoted Nina Kainth to head of sales, bringing its business development and sales functions together under a single leadership structure.
Kainth (pictured)...
The Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have published proposals setting out how mortgage lenders should approach higher levels of loan-to-income lending, following...
RSM UK has called on government to reassess planning reforms and tax policy after its latest research highlighted mounting viability challenges across the residential...
HLPartnership has appointed estate agency executive Jon Cooke as a board adviser, in a move aimed at strengthening ties between estate agents and its...
Landlords are preparing to tighten tenant selection processes as the Renters’ Rights Act approaches, amid concerns over eviction rules and court delays.
With one month to go until the Renters’ Rights Act comes into force, new research suggests landlords...
Afin Bank has appointed Lisa Taylor as an underwriter as the specialist lender continues to expand its team.
Taylor (pictured) joins from Pepper Money and brings almost 25 years of experience in the mortgage and specialist lending sector, with...
First-time buyers are the most exposed group in the housing market as mortgage withdrawals and rising borrowing costs increase pressure on those most reliant on home loans.
Data from reallymoving shows that 90.5% of first-time buyers used a mortgage...
Landlords and tenants in England are being urged to prepare for the first phase of the Renters’ Rights Act, which is due to come into force on 1 May 2026.
Propertymark said the legislation would bring some of the...
The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...
For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency.
If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...
According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...
Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...
Rising mortgage costs driven by global uncertainty are beginning to weigh on borrower demand although a core base of needs-driven clients is keeping transactions moving, according to the latest data from Zoopla.
Average mortgage rates have climbed by 0.4 percentage points in the past month,...
Last Thursday, the head of the FCA stood up at the JP Morgan Pensions and Savings Symposium and dropped a line that deserves more attention than it got.
“If we continue to treat pensions, mortgages and savings as separate tracks, we will miss opportunities to...
There is a version of the mortgage technology story that gets told at conferences and in trade press with some regularity.
It involves platforms, disruption...
The Property Franchise Group says tightening regulation in the rental sector is creating new opportunities for buy-to-let advice as the firm looks to expand mortgage and protection activity across its landlord client base.
In its final results for 2025, the AIM-listed group said its Financial...
