LATEST COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS NEWS

40% of advisers report drop in number of equity release cases

78% of advisers think more of their customers will look to equity release to...

The Mansfield backs First Homes rollout

The Mansfield Building Society has become one of only seven lenders to support the rollout...

Female borrowers adversely hit by Covid

The number of cases Bluestone Mortgages received from individual female applicants between October 2020...

44% of first-time buyers delayed home purchase because of Covid

While the Covid pandemic made homeownership a larger priority for 63% of first-time buyers,...

Quarter of employees made bad debt decisions during pandemic

24% of employees say they made a bad decision about debt during the pandemic,...

SmartCriteria sees first indications of market normalising

Legal & General’s SmartrCriteria tool recorded a -32% decrease in furlough friendly mortgage searches...

Darlington Intermediaries extends 90% LTV nationally

Darlington Intermediaries is making its 90% loan to value (LTV) mortgage available nationally. Since the...

Covid: millions of over-50s looking to relocate

Three million people in the country aged over 50 are considering relocating, as a...

Covid-19 changes first time buyer priorities

First time buyers have incurred significant costs from house purchases falling through, alongside the...

Strong recovery in new build home registrations

Latest figures show that new build home registrations were up 10% in the first...

74% of SMEs confident ‘normal’ demand to return by Xmas

The latest Covid-19 Pulse survey from business funder, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has found...

SMEs investing to recover from Covid

Aldermore says there are signs of recovery for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as...

“Full steam ahead” for property market

The latest UK monthly property transactions data from HMRC has shown there has been...

Covid to spur borrowers to seek mortgage advice

Research from Legal & General Mortgage Club has found that 60% of borrowers whose...
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COMMENT

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Beyond the Robo-Adviser: why the future of mortgages is ‘Human Plus’

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...

Ceasefire boosts sentiment more than mortgage market

What goes up must come down, but for mortgage rates the drop will be notably more gradual than the sharp increase triggered by the...

A surge today, but what comes next for advisers and conveyancing?

March has provided a very clear example of how quickly this market can move when lenders feel the need to take action, with widespread...

Technology adapts so you don’t have to

20 years ago, many brokerages looked and operated in very similar ways. Typically small, local business, many firms focused solely on standard residential mortgage...

Rental barometer shows strength, but March changes the tone

Looking at our recently published Q1 2026 Rental Barometer data in isolation, there is clearly a strong and positive story to tell. Average rental...

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Skipton to cut residential rates and revive three-year fixes

Skipton Building Society is cutting rates across parts of its residential mortgage range from...
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The Leek lowers mortgage rates across residential and specialist products

Leek Building Society is cutting mortgage rates across parts of its residential, shared ownership,...
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Fleet Mortgages has launched three new two-year tracker mortgages at 75% loan-to-value across its...
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