Mortgage trade bodies have welcomed the government's proposed Your First Home scheme, while warning that its success will depend on affordability, lender participation and the availability of suitable new-build homes.
The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) and the Intermediary...
Eleos Life has launched an income protection policy covering redundancy alongside illness and injury as research shows almost half of homeowners mistakenly believe conventional...
A financial advice firm secured its first client through ChatGPT within two weeks of making changes designed to improve its visibility to artificial intelligence...
Alps has made its full range of let property insurance add-ons available through the Acturis trading platform, widening brokers' access to specialist landlord cover.
The...
Landbay is to host an economic webinar examining the outlook for interest rates, inflation and UK growth following the latest Bank of England decision.
The buy-to-let lender's latest Spotlight session will take place online at 11am on 2 October...
More than half of younger adults in Scotland say cost-of-living pressures are the biggest obstacle to buying a home, according to research from Pepper Money.
The lender's Scotland Specialist Lending Study found that 54% of 18 to 34-year-olds identified...
Precise has launched a residential mortgage platform after a pilot reduced average application-to-offer times by almost 30% compared with its previous system.
The specialist lender, part of OSB Group, said application-to-completion times also fell by around a third during...
Mortgage lending to borrowers with impaired credit histories has climbed to levels not seen since the financial crisis, with almost 6,000 products sold in the first half of 2026.
Analysis by Broadstone of Financial Conduct Authority data obtained through...
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...
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...
Skipton Building Society is reducing rates across its fixed mortgage range by an average of 0.15%, alongside expanding its Delayed Start Mortgage and adding new higher-LTV products.
The pricing changes will take effect from 9.00am on Friday 25 September and will apply to fixed-rate mortgages...
Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...
Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems such as diminishing lease lengths and ground rents.
For mortgage lenders and brokers, however, the more important question is not whether...
Subcontext has launched technology that it says will allow UK insurers and brokers to distribute protection products through conversational AI platforms including ChatGPT and Claude.
The AI-focused insurance technology business said its integration could enable consumers to ask questions about life cover, obtain prices based...
