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criteria
Buckinghamshire BS renames product ranges amid criteria update
Buckinghamshire Building Society has made a series of product updates and criteria improvements. As part...
2 April 2025
Air maintains top-ranking status for product and criteria sourcing
Air continues to be a leading intermediary services brand in the later life lending...
27 March 2025
Family BS expands mortgage range and eases JBSP criteria
Family Building Society has launched a refreshed range of mortgage products and made several...
24 March 2025
Gatehouse Bank added to Mortgage Brain sourcing platforms
Mortgage Brain has added Shariah-compliant ethical bank, Gatehouse Bank, to its Sourcing Brain and...
20 March 2025
Nationwide ups LTV limits for interest-only and foreign national borrowers
Nationwide has announced changes to its mortgage lending criteria, increasing the maximum loan-to-value (LTV)...
17 March 2025
Marsden BS extends residential mortgage criteria
Marsden Building Society has unveiled significant additions to its residential mortgage criteria, now catering...
25 February 2025
Marsden BS expands later life mortgage criteria
Marsden Building Society has made a series of changes to its later life mortgage...
23 February 2025
Knowledge Bank addresses cladding-related challenges
Knowledge Bank has introduced a new criteria category designed to help brokers navigate lender...
19 February 2025
Gen H updates income booster criteria
Gen H has updated its income booster mortgage criteria to allow boosters to live...
6 February 2025
Mortgage Brain unveils integrated web platform
Mortgage Brain has launch Mortgage Brain Hub, an integrated mortgage technology platform designed to...
6 February 2025
MPowered Mortgages using digital assistant to give criteria answers to brokers
MPowered Mortgages has unveiled a voice-activated digital assistant to provide brokers with answers in...
28 January 2025
Bluestone improves criteria and application process
Bluestone Mortgages has announced criteria and system updates in order to streamline its mortgage...
16 December 2024
Pepper Money allows 100% loan-to-purchase price
Pepper Money has introduced new Concessionary Purchase criteria which now allows 100% loan-to-purchase price. The...
21 November 2024
Tembo unveils AI tool
Tembo has released details of its new AI-driven mortgage criteria tool. The tool, called...
13 September 2023
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COMMENT
Comment
How are we supporting the next generation of first-time buyers?
With GCSE and A-level results out over the last fortnight, it feels like the right moment to ask a question the industry doesn't spend...
24 August 2026
Let’s not get bogged down in the macro, let’s focus on the ones and twos
In challenging times such as this, it often feels like the first instinct for many in the mortgage market is to talk it down....
21 August 2026
Underwriting: Are we saying “no” to the wrong risks?
Over the last two days I’ve talked about the size of the later life lending market and the knowledge gap that still exists around...
20 August 2026
The blind spot: residential advisers and the over-55 customer
Yesterday I talked about the supportive nature of the equity release and later life lending community and the fact that collaboration is one of...
19 August 2026
The uncomfortable truth about the later life lending market
The headlines around the latest Equity Release Council figures released this month all suggested growth. But I think we need to have an honest...
18 August 2026
Latest news
First-time buyers
First-time buyer support tops Gen Z priorities
Support for building new homes locally is almost twice as high as opposition while...
25 August 2026
Appointments
Target Group appoints former Equiniti chief Paul Lynam to board
Target Group has appointed financial services veteran Paul Lynam as a non-executive director. Lynam (pictured)...
25 August 2026
events
HSBC UK to examine economic shocks and mortgage rates in adviser webinars
HSBC UK will hold two webinars for mortgage intermediaries examining how political and economic...
25 August 2026
Protection
Emergency savings searches surge as households face income pressures
Online searches for "emergency savings" rose by 950% year on year as households considered...
24 August 2026
PROFILES
Toni Smith on the human factor and the fourth emergency service
The AI questions the mortgage industry needs to ask – and address
Claire Cherrington on the opportunities ahead for mortgage clubs