Mortgages

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rates

MPowered Mortgages has reduced rates for the fourth time since the 'mini budget'. The fixed rate...

Buckinghamshire BS launches 5yr fixes and desktop valuations

Buckinghamshire Building Society has launched two new specialist five-year fixed rate products. The first is...

Vida cuts residential and BTL fixed rates

Vida has announced reduced the rates on its fixed rate residential and buy-to-let ranges,...

West One Loans introduces new two-year fixed rate products

West One Loans has expanded its range of residential mortgages for borrowers underserved by...

Virgin Money withdraws 95% LTV range

Virgin Money has made changes to its product offering. It has withdrawn its highest LTV...

Atom bank reintroduces near-prime and prime deals

Atom bank has reintroduced a suite of near prime and prime mortgage products. Following a...

FCA wants improvements in credit information market

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposals to improve the credit information...

Twenty7tec rolls out Skipton integration

Twenty7tec has announced the integration of Skipton Building Society into the APPLY module, making...

Coventry for Intermediaries makes further fixed rate cuts 

Coventry for Intermediaries has reduced all standard residential two, three and five-year fixed rates...

Saffron BS reduces mortgage stress rate

Saffron Building Society has reduced the mortgage Stress Rate on its products from 3%...

L&G: demand for specialist products high “across the board”

Legal & General’s SmartrFit platform has revealed that mortgage criteria searches were dominated by...

Paradigm launches reverse advent calendar charity drive

Paradigm, the mortgage, protection and compliance services proposition, has launched its fifth annual ‘Reverse...

Brokers having difficulty managing lender updates 

New research out from Smart Money People, the financial services review site, has shown that...

David Finlay joins LiveMore Capital

David Finlay has joined LiveMore Capital as an executive consultant and member of the...

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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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