Mortgages

Leeds BS cuts mortgage rates

Leeds Building Society has introduced reductions to selected fixed rate products. Selected residential rates will...

Helping the increasing number of people with credit issues

People’s personal finances have taken a battering in recent years, thanks to Covid and...

Just Mortgages appoints sales manager for Scotland

Just Mortgages has bolstered its self-employed division and its presence in Scotland with the...

Suffolk Building Society expands large loan offering

Suffolk Building Society has extended its maximum loan size from £1m to £2m, across...

Family Building Society lowers interest-only and BTL rates

Family Building Society has launched a revamped range of reduced-price owner occupier interest-only and...

Target Group unveils new chief commercial officer

Target Group has announced the appointment of Tom Trevorrow as chief commercial officer (CCO). Trevorrow...

Mortgage Intelligence provides free software to members

Mortgage Intelligence has added Criteria Brain and Affordability Brain software to its range of...

Iress appoints managing director of sourcing

Iress has announced that Jennifer Rafferty has been appointed as its new managing director...

Residential by Foundation cuts rates by up to 30bps

Residential by Foundation has lowered a number of rates across its product range by...

Private Label unveils ‘Rockstar’ mortgages

Private Label has launched its ‘Rockstar' range of mortgage products. It claims the deals are...

Chetwood Financial appoints Mortgage Advisory Board chair

Alan Cleary has been appointed as chair of Chetwood Financial’s Mortgage Advisory Board. Cleary...

Market Harborough eases lending criteria

Market Harborough Building Society has announced changes to its lending criteria to make it...

Precise lowers rates with limited edition residential range

Precise, part of OSB Group, has launched a new limited edition residential range. Rates have...

Mortgage Vision expands to 12 autumn events

Mortgage Brain has announced its Mortgage Vision timetable for the second half of the...

COMMENT

Should mortgage advisers consider the emerging secondary market for life policies?

Mortgage advisers regularly help clients navigate major life changes. While much of the focus is naturally on borrowing, refinancing and insurance, there is another...

One mortgage journey no longer fits every borrower

In the mortgage market, we have lots of different ways of describing customers depending on where they are in their lives. We talk about...

Closing the protection gap starts with informed clients

Millions of people have no protection insurance coverage and could be left vulnerable in the event of a death in the family, serious illness...

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

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...

Latest news

Barclays hikes mortgage rates for second time in a week

Barclays is increasing fixed mortgage rates for the second time this week as rising...

LendInvest removes ERCs and cuts rates across buy-to-let tracker range

LendInvest has revamped its buy-to-let tracker mortgage range, removing early repayment charges and increasing...

Cream sets out four steps to narrow protection gap

Cream Financial Solutions has called for greater use of specialist referrals and changes to...

Smart Money People seeks broker views for latest lender benchmark

Smart Money People has opened its H2 2026 Mortgage Lender Benchmark survey, inviting UK...

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