Mortgages

Halifax takes top spot for broker experience in latest lender benchmark

Halifax has been named the best mainstream lender and the top performer for overall...

Getting to Know You: Matt Coulson, Heron Financial

Name: Matt Coulson Age: 39 Location: Newcastle Firm: Heron Financial Education: High school Specialty: Tech-enabled mortgage advice, ethical...

Lloyds to cut Product Transfer fees in New Year

Lloyds Banking Group has angered some mortgage advisers after confirming it will slash procuration...

Yorkshire Building Society brings mortgage brands under one division

Yorkshire Building Society is consolidating its mortgage operations into a single Homes division in...

Shawbrook increases loan-to-income ratio to 5.5x across TML and Bluestone

Shawbrook has increased its maximum loan-to-income ratio from 4.5x to 5.5x income, extending the...

Mortgage Brain expands customer success team with two new hires

Mortgage Brain has strengthened its customer success team with the appointment of Richard Bethune-Wright...

Nearly half of lenders admit servicing teams are unprepared for rising borrower pressures

Lenders’ own servicing teams are not ready to support borrowers as economic conditions worsen,...

OBR forecasts stamp duty burden to almost double by early 2030s

Stamp duty receipts on homes bought in England and Northern Ireland are projected to...

GB Bank bolsters leadership as bridging push gathers pace

GB Bank has strengthened its senior ranks with a trio of internal promotions as...

Kensington cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Kensington Mortgages has lowered rates by up to 0.47% across its residential Select and...

AUTUMN BUDGET: Further damage to buy-to-let investors

Yesterday’s Budget represented yet another decisive step in the dismantling of the traditional buy-to-let...

Brokers need more lender choice to meet real-life borrower needs

With more borrowers falling outside traditional lending criteria, brokers need a wider range of...

First-time buyer affordability improves as wages rise and mortgage rates ease

First-time buyers are seeing the most favourable affordability conditions in almost a decade, according...

Lloyds Banking Group expands support for first-time buyers with £1bn extra lending

Lloyds Banking Group is widening access to higher loan-to-income borrowing for new buyers by...
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COMMENT

Comment

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

News

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...
Technology

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...
Building Societies

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...
Cover

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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