First-time buyers

Gen H cuts 2-year rates by up to 30 bps

Gen H has made its third rate reduction in almost as many week with...

Precise enhances residential range with rates from 4.79%

Specialist lender Precise, part of the OSB Group, has expanded its residential mortgage offering...

First-time buyer boost as buying and renting costs align as mortgage rates stabilise

The monthly cost of buying a home is now the same as renting across...

Stamp duty changes fuel March mortgage surge but rising costs dent buyer confidence

Mortgage completions surged to their highest level in over three years in March as...

Newcastle cuts shared ownership rates by up to 55bps

Newcastle for Intermediaries has announced rate reductions of up to 55 basis point s...

Perenna backs Gen H’s New Build Boost with new funding partnership

Perenna Bank has announced a new strategic funding relationship with residential mortgage lender Gen...

Santander reintroduces sub-4% mortgage rates

Santander UK will cut rates across its mortgage range from Thursday 17 April, with...

Gen H reduces high-LTV mortgage rates to support FTBs

Residential lender Gen H has announced a fresh round of mortgage rate reductions, targeting...

Major lenders raise mortgage limits as stress test changes take effect

Four of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders have announced changes to their affordability criteria...

Just Mortgages reports spike in Shared Ownership demand

Just Mortgages has announced a significant uptick in activity across its new build division,...

Call for ‘truthful rethink’ on housing affordability as experts criticise outdated metrics

A leading housing expert has criticised the industry’s approach to affordability, warning that outdated...

Barclays cuts mortgage rates below 4%

Barclays is set to reduce mortgage rates by as much as 38 basis points...

ModaMortgages cuts rates by up to 20bps across buy-to-let range

ModaMortgages has cut rates by up to 20bps across its buy-to-let range. The reduction means...

Nationwide lowers income threshold for Helping Hand

Nationwide Building Society has reduced the minimum income requirement for sole applicants using its...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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