Mortgages

FTB mortgage lending set to reach £71bn by 2025

The value of the first-time buyer economy, comprised of lending and spending, is set...

Pepper Money improves affordability with criteria changes

Pepper Money has made a series of improvements to its lending criteria to help...

Net fall in September mortgage approvals for house purchases

The Bank of England has reported that net borrowing of mortgage debt by individuals...

Molo joins Finova panel

Finova Payment and Mortgage Services has announced its partnership with digital mortgage lender Molo,...

SimplyBiz bolsters mortgage compliance team

SimplyBiz has announced the appointment of Simon Lovell and Kris Armstrong to its compliance...

We need to adapt to the changing profiles of borrowers

Time stops for no one, and neither does the possibility of change. What might...

PRIMIS partners with New Homes Mortgage Broker

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has revealed that New Homes Mortgage Broker is the latest firm...

13,000+ solar panels installed during record warm September

Over 13,000 solar panels were installed on UK homes during the joint-warmest September on...

“Bold ideas” wanted to transform home buying using Smart Data

The Department for Business and Trade, Challenge Works, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and...

PriceHubble acquires WhenFresh

PriceHubble, a provider of performance data solutions for real estate and finance, has acquired...

Adverse, protection and complex lending top queries for PRIMIS desk

PRIMIS Mortgage Network has revealed that the its product desk helped appointed representative (AR)...

Bluestone Mortgages makes widespread rate cuts

Bluestone Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its whole product range. The specialist lender says...

Hanley Economic BS improves criteria

Hanley Economic Building Society has made three key criteria changes to its lending policy. Following...

Four new divisional sales directors at Just Mortgages

National brokerage Just Mortgages has announced the appointment of four new divisional sales directors...

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The 12 Days of Christmas: Staying front of mind when clients go quiet

December has long been a quiet month for mortgage advisers. By mid-November, many client conversations slow or pause entirely, often with the familiar refrain:...

Why UPRNs and data standards are central to the next generation NLIS

In October 2025, through the Fourth Round of the Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF), Government’s Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) has awarded Land Data a grant...

AGENT VIEW: I know I’m not a mathematician but to me 6.5 x is the new 3.5 x

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, as they say, and in an era of creeping inflation, job insecurity and the menacing spectre of...

Surveying industry undervalued in race to the bottom

After a 16-month break from the property industry I returned to find a landscape that had shifted more than I expected. The private B2C surveying...

Why the human relationship still defines real estate lending

AI is now a core driver of transformation in financial services and is reshaping the foundations of real estate lending. According to AllAboutAI.com over 85%...

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L&G sells surveying arm to Beach Equity

Legal & General has agreed to sell its long-standing surveying division to Beach Equity,...

Santander makes third round of November rate cuts as pricing drifts lower

Santander will cut a wide swathe of its residential and buy-to-let pricing next week,...

Later life lending must become ‘mainstream priority’, following FCA reform speech

Will Hale, chief executive of Key Advice & Air, has urged the mortgage industry...

FRP expands with acquisition of Arc & Co

FRP has strengthened its presence in the real-estate finance market with the acquisition of...

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