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Home and away: How appetite for UK property is rising
Conflicts in Ukraine and now the Middle East are a reminder that the catastrophic...
7 April 2026
Keystone restores fixed rate buy-to-let products as market stabilises
Keystone Property Finance has brought back fixed rate options across its buy-to-let range, widening...
2 April 2026
Foundation returns with revised buy-to-let and residential mortgage range
Foundation has returned to the market with a revised product range across both buy-to-let...
27 March 2026
Family BS expands fixed rate range across core lending lines
Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of fixed rate products spanning owner-occupier...
26 March 2026
Market Harborough BS raises buy-to-let loan cap to £3m
Market Harborough Building Society has increased its maximum buy-to-let loan size to £3m and...
19 March 2026
Family Building Society returns to fixed-rate lending with reduced mortgage range
The Family Building Society has returned to the mortgage market with a limited range...
16 March 2026
The Buckinghamshire raises expat BTL LTV limit and launches new fixes
Buckinghamshire Building Society has increased the maximum loan-to-value on its expat buy-to-let mortgages to...
5 March 2026
Family boosts buy-to-let borrowing by up to 35%
Family Building Society has enhanced its buy-to-let affordability assessment, increasing potential borrowing by up...
19 February 2026
The Marsden eases expat mortgage criteria with higher LTVs for flats
Marsden Building Society has widened its expat mortgage criteria, increasing maximum loan-to-value ratios on...
18 February 2026
Keystone’s latest rate reductions extend across new and existing business
Keystone Property Finance has introduced a further round of rate cuts across its new...
17 February 2026
The Suffolk cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 26bps
Suffolk Building Society has reduced a range of 80% LTV buy-to-let fixed rates by...
11 February 2026
Foundation trims specialist buy-to-let rates and broadens product range
Foundation has reduced pricing across much of its specialist buy-to-let range and introduced a...
11 February 2026
Gatehouse Bank cuts 5-year BTL rates for expats and overseas buyers
Gatehouse Bank has reduced rental rates by 0.18% across its full range of 5-year...
27 January 2026
International buyers hold 203,000 homes
Almost 203,000 homes across England and Wales are owned by international homeowners, with London...
26 January 2026
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COMMENT
Cover
The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up
Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...
9 June 2026
Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck
For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...
8 June 2026
The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about
There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...
3 June 2026
Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows
High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...
1 June 2026
The cost of knowing less
There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...
29 May 2026
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Halifax retains top spot in broker satisfaction survey
Halifax has once again been named the best overall lender for broker experience in...
10 June 2026
Blogs
Nationwide cuts switcher mortgage rates for existing borrowers
Nationwide is reducing rates across its switcher mortgage range for existing customers by up...
9 June 2026
News
Hinckley & Rugby adds visa mortgage products to offering
Hinckley & Rugby for intermediaries has launched four two-year discount visa mortgage products across...
9 June 2026
Appointments
NatWest strengthens broker support with intermediary team expansion
NatWest has expanded its intermediary leadership team with the creation of two new corporate...
9 June 2026
PROFILES
Steve Caruthers on understanding how lenders operate
Kevin Tunnicliffe on ending the race to the bottom
Profile: Andrew Lloyd, CEO of Fignum