Government-backed Help to Buy schemes delivered modest improvements in housing affordability, with the gains concentrated among higher-income households, according to new analysis.
Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests that the flagship policies, introduced in 2013 to...
Gross buy-to-let rental yields rose modestly in the first quarter, with Wales and the North East again delivering the strongest regional returns, according to...
Buy-to-let lending increased sharply at the end of 2025, driven by remortgaging activity, while new purchase demand continued to show signs of weakness.
New figures...
Paradigm Mortgage Services has appointed Nick Delawa as business development director, with responsibility for London and the South East as the network continues to...
Fleet Mortgages has cut pricing by 20 basis points on its 75% LTV two-year fixed-rate products, with reductions across its standard, limited company and...
RAW Capital Partners said its UK mortgage proposition generated a third of new business in the first quarter, after the Guernsey-based specialist lender extended the range to UK residents in December 2025.
The lender, which has spent the past...
A new integration aims to reduce manual workloads and speed up decision-making across mortgage finance.
Fignum has partnered with Sikoia to integrate AI-driven document processing and verification capabilities into its platform, in a move designed to streamline case handling...
Atom bank has cut rates across its near-prime mortgage range, with pricing now starting from 5.39% for borrowers at up to 60% loan-to-value.
The lender said the 20 basis point (bps) reductions apply immediately across all near-prime purchase and...
Countrywide Surveying Services has renewed its agreement with Pure Retirement to continue providing valuation services for the lender’s later life lending business across the UK.
The arrangement will see Countrywide Surveying Services, part of Countrywide Surveying Services, remain in...
The fintech industry is obsessing over a binary choice: the traditional human broker or the fully automated 'robo-adviser'. But as we navigate the complexities...
20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...
Mortgage deals are disappearing at record speed as lenders scramble to reprice in a volatile rate environment.
Latest data from Moneyfacts shows the average shelf-life of a mortgage has fallen to just eight days, down from 14 days in February and the lowest level since...
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 up with product changes, they could build a thriving business placing most clients with high street lenders.
But the market has...
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...
More than six in ten homebuyers say conveyancing is the biggest cause of delays in the homebuying process according to new research from Lyons Bowe Solicitors.
A survey of 1,000 recent UK buyers found 65% identified the legal process as the slowest stage of their...
