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Paradigm revamps Mortgage Broker Tools partnership for member firms

Paradigm has relaunched its partnership with Mortgage Broker Tools, extending access to the affordability...

Precise extends mortgage terms to ease affordability pressures

Specialist residential lender Precise has cut rates across its residential range and introduced mortgage...

UTB expands residential offering with new super prime and specialist tiers

United Trust Bank has expanded its residential mortgage proposition with the launch of two...

Opus First Media launches Bridging Soup

Opus First Media has expanded its specialist publishing portfolio with the launch of Bridging...

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries raises income multiples across bespoke mortgages

Bank of Ireland for Intermediaries has increased the maximum loan-to-income available across its Bespoke...

Furness Building Society partners with Gen H to widen access to homeownership

Furness Building Society has entered into a partnership with residential mortgage lender Gen H...

Suffolk widens lending criteria to support more complex households

Suffolk Building Society has introduced a series of criteria changes aimed at expanding access...

AffCalc adds four lenders as platform extends affordability coverage

Knowledge Bank has added four lenders to its AffCalc affordability platform, expanding the range...

2026 forecasts: More pessimism or will the housing market strengthen?

Throughout 2025 many in the housing industry, both lenders and builders cast serious doubt...

Fixed rates dominate as first-time buyers drive activity in 2025

The UK mortgage market in 2025 was shaped by falling rates towards year-end, a...

Borrowers moved early as rate cut expectations built, Twenty7tec data shows

Mortgage search activity reached its highest level of the month on 9 December, nine...

Bridging finance momentum shows up in Knowledge Bank broker search data

Broker search behaviour on Knowledge Bank suggests bridging finance is playing an increasingly central...

Gen H widens credit criteria to support more first-time buyers

Residential mortgage lender Gen H has extended its internal credit criteria in a move...

Hanley Economic widens lending criteria to reflect modern working patterns

Hanley Economic Building Society has refreshed its residential lending criteria, aiming to accommodate a...
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COMMENT

Comment

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 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...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

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...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Searching for sunny uplands

There is a growing sense, shared quietly in boardrooms and rather less quietly over kitchen tables, that the UK has lost a degree of...

How advisers can find and secure powerful introducers to grow their business – Pt2

I hope you found my earlier article useful and enlightening and if so, please read on, as in this piece I complete the steps...

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Chancellor presses lenders to expand support for borrowers ahead of rate resets

The government has secured fresh commitments from major lenders to step up engagement with...
Building Societies

Suffolk BS tops £800m in mortgage assets after strong 2025 growth

Suffolk Building Society has passed £800m of mortgage assets for the first time after...
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UTB eases mortgage and second charge processes with criteria changes

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a series of service and criteria changes across...
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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...

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