Features

Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape

Gareth Lewis has spent the past seven years at MT Finance, guiding the specialist...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Industry braces for impact

On Wednesday, the Chancellor is due to deliver the second highly anticipated Autumn Budget...

AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for...

Women in Finance: Together pushes for progress

Together has stepped up its campaign to support female talent in specialist finance with...

Chris Williams on being the architect of connection

For most of the last decade Chris Williams has been dissecting the machinery of...

Roland McCormack on driving transformation in the mortgage market

The Teams window flickers into life and then Roland McCormack appears in the bottom...

Mark Bogard on policy, politics and the future of advice

When Mark Bogard, Chief Executive of Family Building Society, talks about Britain’s housing policy,...

Changing working patterns aren’t supported by automated underwriting

It’s fair to say that our working lives, the way we are paid, the...

The rise in demand for PMI and how to maximise all ancillary opportunities

The ongoing uncertainty in the UK economy brought about by rising interest rates and...

H2 volumes, PTs, and how to secure value from every client interaction

News that almost 10% of all mortgage products were taken off the market in...

Missed opportunity for modular housing?

The UK’s modular housing sector has been dealt a blow with the news Legal...

100% LTV mortgages will never be mass-market products

It’s fair to say the media has been dominated recently by talk of 100%...

0% green additional borrowing is the way forward

If you were to ask any homeowner whether they would like cheaper energy bills...

We need to address the focus on Bank Base Rate

March as a month certainly gave the mortgage market a lot to digest and...

COMMENT

Why the collapse of US auto finance lenders matters for UK mortgages

You might wonder why a car loans provider across the Atlantic has anything to do with UK mortgages – on the face of it,...

There’s no room for complacency, it’s time for collaboration

Last year the government announced a proposal to reform the home-buying system in a bid to speed up the property transaction process, cut costs...

Lenders that adapt to customer and broker needs will be the winners

For UK mortgage brokers, the choice of lender partner has never been more important. In a market shaped by fluctuating rates, evolving regulation and increasing...

First-time landlords and first-time buyers are still entering the market

Despite the upheaval, new entrants have not vanished. First-time landlords are still active and, according to Hamptons, millennials (born between 1981 and 1996) are...

36 more pay cheques before you’re made redundant

Imagine getting that email in your inbox first thing this morning! I tell you what: for the sake of another thought-provoking, rib-jabbing article, let's pretend...

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Refurbishment bill to lift England’s rental homes to EPC C put at £19.9bn

Landlords across England face a refurbishment bill of almost £20bn to bring private rented...

Intergenerational gifting reaches record level among equity release customers

More retirees are using equity release to support family members and fund improvements that...

TPFG posts record year as financial services arm drives mortgage growth

The Property Franchise Group has reported a record year for FY25, with its Financial...

Property transactions stretch to 123 days

Property transactions in England and Wales are taking an average of 123 days from...

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