The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed on buyer demand, sales activity and house prices, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) residential market survey.
The September 2026 survey...
Air and Mortgage Brain have agreed a collaboration designed to help mortgage advisers assess mainstream and specialist lending options for older borrowers through their...
Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions and HL Partnership have recorded some of the largest increases in appointed representative (AR) firm numbers this year, as consolidation continues...
Mortgage credit availability and demand for house purchase and remortgaging all declined during the third quarter of 2026, according to the Bank of England's...
L&G has extended its Adviser Academy webinar programme to help financial advisers address a wider range of client needs, including retirement income, inheritance tax planning and later life lending.
The expanded CPD-accredited programme builds on the provider's existing mortgage...
Almost eight in 10 homeowners have made no specific preparations to protect their properties from extreme weather, despite growing concerns about the risk of damage, research from Compare the Market has found.
The comparison website's survey found that 79%...
Almost two-thirds of mortgage brokers identify proving overseas income and affordability as the biggest obstacle when arranging mortgages for expatriate borrowers, according to research from Suffolk Building Society.
The survey found that 62% of intermediaries struggle with assessing income...
LSL Financial Services has appointed Matt Surridge as propositions director, a newly created position overseeing the development of broker services across its Primis network and TMA Club.
Surridge (pictured) will work with appointed representative and directly authorised firms to...
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...
The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...
Borrowers with historic credit problems and smaller deposits have more routes to explore, but understanding which lenders can help remains central to the advice process.
That was a recurring theme in the latest edition of Knowledge Bank’s Lenders Live, alongside a discussion about whether technology...
Through my conversations with mortgage brokers, and Landmark’s work across the wider home-moving process, I see the same pattern repeatedly. Once a mortgage has been secured, brokers remain tied to a transaction they cannot fully see, or control and put in time chasing information...
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...
Mortgage Advice Bureau has added Gable Mortgages to its lender panel, giving its advisers access to the lender's 100% LTV proposition for borrowers without a traditional deposit.
The addition is aimed at first-time buyers struggling to build a deposit, as well as home movers whose...
