Buy-to-let

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates and goes back in at 80% LTV

Foundation Home Loans has announced further price reductions across its owner-occupier special products and...

Saffron BS increases maximum loan sizes

Saffron Building Society has announced a full product refresh across its mortgage portfolio, focused...

Hampshire Trust Bank becomes new FIBA lender partner

The Financial Intermediary & Broker Association (FIBA) has announced that Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB)...

Gatehouse Bank enhances green home finance offering

Gatehouse Bank has made changes to its green home finance offering. Previously only available to...

Advise Wise introduces new feature for Consumer Duty

Advise Wise has added a new feature for its members which complements the product...

LendInvest partners with Primis

LendInvest has launched a new partnership with Primis Mortgage Network to provide members with...

MBE Manchester seminar programme and keynote speaker revealed

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has announced that Kate Davies, executive director of the Intermediary...

Hodge cuts retention rates amid widespread reductions

Hodge has made a third rate drop across its range of mortgage products since...

Digging deeper for buy-to-let

Ever since the first product of its kind was launched into the mortgage market...

Louisa Sedgwick to join Paragon Bank

Paragon Bank has announced the appointment of Louisa Sedgwick as commercial director of the...

The Mortgage Lender announces buy-to-let rate cuts

The Mortgage Lender has made rate reductions across its two and five-year fixed buy-to-let...

Dudley BS unveils fixed rate deals

Dudley Building Society has launched a range of two-year fixed rate products. The mutual...

Landlords driving PRS energy efficiency performance

Paragon Bank has established that landlords in the private rented sector have driven a...

Majority of landlords plan to fix when remortgaging

Over three-quarters of landlords expect to opt for a fixed rate deal when it...

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The case for tech fluency before AI adoption in the mutual sector

It often feels like there is only one conversation taking place in financial services at the moment: artificial intelligence. Whether it’s trade shows and...

Commonhold and RTM: do not mistake control for simplicity

Commonhold is presented as a fairer form of flat ownership. Right to Manage (RTM) is sometimes portrayed as a quick way for residents to...

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

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Property industry urged to help shape smart data rules

Property businesses are being urged to respond to a government call for evidence that...

Northern first-time buyers pay £10k price for delaying purchase

First-time buyers in northern cities risk losing thousands of pounds by postponing a purchase,...

Virgin Money to raise product transfer fixed rates

Virgin Money will increase residential and buy-to-let product transfer fixed rates on Friday, 24...

Mortgage broker revenue rises as adviser numbers fall

Reported revenue from mortgage broking increased by 15.9% to £1.6bn during 2025 despite a...