Mortgages

MPowered Mortgages lowers fixed rates once again

MPowered Mortgages has announced its second round of fixed rate reductions since the so-called...

Atom bank reduces Near Prime mortgage rates

Atom bank has announced further reductions across its Near Prime residential mortgage range, with...

Family BS unveils fee-free mortgages and raises JBSP lending to 90% LTV

Family Building Society has introduced a new fee-free mortgage product range and increased loan-to-value...

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...

UTB Mortgages exceeds £2 billion lending milestone after record breaking first quarter

United Trust Bank Mortgages has topped off a record breaking first quarter of 2025...

Foxtons posts strong Q1 as mortgage activity at Alexander Hall surges

Foxtons Group has reported a robust start to the year this morning with financial...

LendInvest cuts rates and revamps credit criteria

LendInvest has announced a series of changes to its residential mortgage offering, cutting fixed...

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...

West One reduces residential mortgage rates by up to 30bps and introduces £1,000 cashback remortgage product

Specialist lender West One Loans has implemented a series of rate reductions across its...

Household credit creeps up as lenders point to more optimism… but at a cost

British households are borrowing more – and lenders are increasingly willing to let them...

Newcastle cuts shared ownership rates by up to 55bps

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

The Vernon lifts overpayment limit on discounted variable rate mortgages

Vernon Building Society has announced a major enhancement to its discounted variable rate mortgage...

Connect adds April Mortgages to lender panel

Connect for Intermediaries has secured an exclusive network partnership with April Mortgages, offering its...

COMMENT

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

Latest news

Meet the hosts of Mortgage’s Got Talent

As the mortgage industry prepares to swap case discussions, criteria and rates for microphones,...

Complex income must not become barrier to Scottish homeownership

Mortgage lenders need to keep adapting their criteria as changing working patterns leave growing...

LiveMore raises LTV limits and adds flexibility to equity release overpayments

LiveMore has increased maximum LTVs on mortgages with a repayment element and introduced more...

Cost of collapsed property sales rises to £258m in second quarter

Failed property transactions cost the UK housing market an estimated £257.9m during the second...

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