Mortgages

West One hails July as record month for originations

West One Loans has reported a record month for originations in July. The specialist lender...

Access FS adds CeMAP courses to academy proposition

Access Financial Services has announced the completion of its new academy proposition with the...

Vida cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Vida has announced rate reductions across its product range. All buy-to-let rates have been reduced,...

MPowered Mortgages joins Mortgage Marketing Forum

The Mortgage Marketing Forum has announced that MPowered Mortgages is the latest company to...

Foundation Home Loans refreshes ‘specials’ products

Foundation Home Loans has announced a refresh of its buy-to-let and owner-occupier ‘specials’ product...

Virgin Money to cut exclusive rates

Virgin Money is reducing the rates on selected remortgage and purchase exclusives on Tuesday...

CMME unveils scheme for self-employed mortgage advisers

Mortgage advisory firm, CMME, is launching a new scheme exclusively designed for self-employed mortgage...

Mortgage approvals at highest level since October 2022

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

MPowered Mortgages cuts five-year fixed rate range

MPowered Mortgages has reduced its five-year fixed rate residential mortgage products by 0.15%, with...

PMS introduces fair value support for mortgage firms

PMS Mortgage Club, in partnership with Bankhall, has rolled out a suite of new...

Coventry for intermediaries reduces selected rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced two and five-year fixed rates, for residential and buy-to-let...

Brokers still unclear on what Consumer Duty means for them

Consumer Duty is a hot topic across the mortgage industry, with the implementation date...

Brokers become less pessimistic moving into H2

New research from Crystal Specialist Finance has revealed how mortgage brokers viewed the market...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates by up to 85bps

Foundation Home Loans has announced rate reductions of up to 0.85 percentage points on...

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Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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...

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OneFamily renews call for lifetime ISA reforms to help first-time buyers

OneFamily has renewed its call for reforms to the lifetime ISA, urging the government...

Landlords pin hopes on commonhold to curb rising charges

Landlords are broadly optimistic that a shift to commonhold could lead to lower service...

Access FS adds 3mc to mortgage panel to support complex cases

Access Financial Services has added 3mc to its mortgage panel in a move aimed...

Propertymark: Newbuild prices slide in key regions

Average asking prices for newly built homes in the South West fell sharply over...

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