Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages cuts residential and buy-to-let fixed rates

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a rate reduction across all of its fixed-rate residential and...

Homeowners lacking energy efficiency awareness

New research from the Skipton Group has highlighted a gap in home efficiency knowledge...

Gen H makes 2 & 5-year rate cuts

Gen H has made significant reductions across its two and five-year product ranges, reducing rates by...

Mortgage mentoring scheme set to launch

With 17 January 2023 marking International Mentoring Day, the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI)...

LiveMore reduces rates by 50bps

LiveMore has reduced the rates on all of its products by 50 basis points. Rates...

Hanley Economic BS introduces quadruple product launch

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched four new mortgage products. The new products include an...

Skipton cuts rates across government mortgage schemes

Skipton Building Society has announced rate reductions across its mortgage product suite. From 9am tomorrow...

Enra Specialist Finance reports record results

Enra Specialist Finance has announced record performance in the year to 31 December 2022....

The big issues that brokers will face in 2023

It’s been a long and, at times, difficult year for the property market and...

Signs of positivity for 95% LTV market

So, 2023 is now fully underway and we await to see just how the...

Q&A: Michelle Westley, head of marketing at Brightstar Financial

BestAdvice talks to Brightstar Financial’s head of marketing, Michelle Westley, about opportunities for brokers...

Pivotal Growth acquires RSC New Homes Limited and Group First

Pivotal Growth has acquired RSC New Homes and Group First, the holding company for...

Legal & General adds nine lenders to SmartrFit

Legal & General has revamped its SmartrFit too, featuring new residential and buy-to-let affordability...

TMA Club partners with Tandem Bank

TMA Club has become the latest club to announce a partnership with specialist lender...

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GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

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...

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Time Finance bolsters regional expansion with new business development hire

Time Finance has strengthened its vendor finance operation with the appointment of Gil Dudson...

Financial education boosts demand for protection insurance

Young adults who receive financial education are significantly more likely to buy protection insurance...

Stamford Finance passes £100m lending landmark

Stamford Finance has passed £100m in total lending, marking a significant step for the...

Work-life balance emerges as top priority for UK workers

Almost half of UK employees say work-life balance is their leading consideration when choosing...

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