Mortgages

£1bn paid out in Stamp Duty in May

Coventry Building Society has analysed the latest HMRC figures and established that homebuyers paid...

Delivering a specialist FTB focus

The somewhat unexpected early election call will inevitably impact the UK housing market to...

Q&A: Paul Stringer, Norton Group

BestAdvice fires the questions at Paul Stringer, CEO, Norton Group. BestAdvice (BA): Tell us a...

Virgin Money changes Fix and Switch rates

Virgin Money is making some changes to a series of mortgage products tonight (Thursday...

MHBS appoints head of strategic planning and customer proposition

Market Harborough Building Society (MHBS) has named Andy Taylor as its head of strategic...

Atom bank cuts Prime rates once again

Atom bank has lowered rates across its entire range of Prime mortgage products. Rates are...

Finova upgrades Apprivo platform

Finova has introduced two new upgrades to its origination platform, Apprivo. The new optional modules...

West One Loans hires new region account manager

West One Loans has appointed a new regional account manager for the North East,...

Just Mortgages appoints sales director for client services

Just Mortgages has announced the promotion of Gareth Lowndes to the position of sales...

Hinckley & Rugby enhances Credit Flex criteria

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has updated the criteria on its Credit Flex mortgage...

Perenna partners with Quilter Group

Perenna has announced a new partnership with Quilter Financial Planning, as part of its...

Shared ownership appeals to 50% of FTBs

New research has found that 50% of first-time buyers would consider or have considered...

“Best year yet” for Atom bank

Atom bank has announced its strongest financial results so far in its history, with...

April Mortgages completes 15-year fixed rate deal

April Mortgages has provided a borrower with a 15-year fixed rate mortgage. The lender provided...

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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