Mortgages

Nationwide BS integrates with Smartr365

Following a successful pilot, Nationwide Building Society has announced an API integration with Smartr365....

Borrowers ‘snapping up’ tracker and discounted mortgages

Rose Capital Partners has revealed that borrowers are snapping up tracker and discounted mortgages...

Tandem Bank to unveil first charge offering

Tandem Bank’s mortgage division is launching its first, broker-based first charge product portfolio next...

Vida unveils new intermediary decisioning hub

Vida has launched a new centralised decisioning unit. At the core of this new...

Cornerstone Finance adopts Acre’s mortgage platform

Cornerstone Finance has become the latest large brokerage to go live with Acre's platform...

Coventry for Intermediaries cuts all residential fixed rates

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all owner-occupier fixed rates. Two, three and five-year options have...

BuildLoan increases multiples for higher income self-builders

BuildLoan has increased its range of self and custom build mortgages with the launch...

Virgin Money ups variable mortgage rates

Virgin Money has announced changes to its mortgage variable revert rates, following the announcement...

Newcastle Intermediaries improves residential mortgage offering

Newcastle Intermediaries is cutting rates by up to 0.3 percentage points across its existing...

IMLA announces new management committee

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has elected its Management Committee for 2023, consisting...

Prospective FTBs expect to be 37 years old when purchasing

The average prospective buyer now predicts they will be 37 years old by the...

Brokers want specialist lenders to ‘take a view’

The vast majority of mortgage intermediaries say they could live without time-saving tech as...

Atom bank cuts two and five-year rates

Atom bank is reducing the rates across a number of its mortgage products, with...

MPowered Mortgages appoints new head of intermediary distribution

MPowered Mortgages has announced that Paul Kane will become its new head of intermediary distribution. In...

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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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North–South divide widens in UK’s most affordable towns

New research from Zoopla shows a deepening divide in housing affordability with the most...

Budget uncertainty stalls plans for almost a fifth of home-movers

Speculation over property tax reforms in the upcoming Autumn Budget is prompting thousands of...

Phoebus gains SBTi validation as it accelerates net zero strategy

Mortgage servicing software firm Phoebus has had its emissions reduction plans formally validated by...

Gold collection enables rapid £150k loan for business owner

A marketing entrepreneur has secured a four-month £150,000 loan against his gold collection after...

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