Mortgages

Significant rise in gifting by mortgage customers aged 50+

Mortgage lender Hodge has reported that, between 2019 and 2021, there was a 30%...

Vida improves criteria for contractors

Vida has unveiled a series of changes to its criteria for borrowers who are...

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries introduces new residential proposition

Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has revamped its residential mortgage offering to give wider access...

Precise unveils wider adverse product offering

Precise Mortgages has launched a new range of residential mortgage products designed to support...

Virgin Money pulls majority of exclusive deals and ups rates

Virgin Money has made a series of changes within its range of fixed rate...

TML launches invitation-only intermediary club

The Mortgage Lender (TML) has launched 'Society', an invitation-only club for its intermediary partners....

Majority of young people believe credit scoring system is flawed

54% of people aged 18-34 think the current credit score system is fundamentally flawed, according...

BuildLoan reverts back to pre-Covid income criteria

Self and custom build specialist BuildLoan and Chorley Building Society have agreed a revised...

Borrowers outline frustrations with lenders

38% of UK homebuyers have had a property purchase fall through due to mortgage...

Just Mortgages aims for 1,500 staff

Just Mortgages has revealed plans to almost treble in size in five years. The broker...

Pepper Money now on CloudTwenty7 APPLY

Following a pilot, Twenty7Tec has announced that Pepper Money has been rolled out to...

BoE: February fall in lending and approvals

The Bank of England has revealed that there was a slight fall in mortgage...

Leeds BS enhances online application platform

Leeds Building Society has made changes to Mortgage Hub, its online application platform. The Society...

Mortgage Advice Bureau to acquire Fluent Money Group

Mortgage Advice Bureau is to acquire approximately 75% of Project Finland Topco (Fluent Money...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

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...

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TRM launches tool to help advisers assess clients’ financial shortfalls

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has introduced a Shortfall Needs Analysis Calculator designed...

HTB completes £1.1m Midlands refinancing in four hours

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has completed a £1.1m residential investment refinancing in the Midlands...

Brookfield Surveyors joins BDLA as associate member

Brookfield Surveyors has become an associate member of the Bridging and Development Lenders Association...

Shawbrook backs 42-home London scheme with £13m development facility

Shawbrook has partnered with P10 Financial Group to provide a £13m development facility that...

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