Mortgages

Gateway Surveyors appointed as Melton BS panel manager

Gateway Surveyors has announced that Melton Building Society has appointed it as panel manager. The...

Buckinghamshire BS unveils Deposit Lite

Buckinghamshire Building Society has announced a revamp of its Family Assist product. It has been...

Mortgage Brain and HSBC UK to host free self-employed Criteria Masterclass

Mortgage Brain has partnered with HSBC UK to host a free Criteria Masterclass webinar...

Nottingham BS cuts rates and launches new deals

Nottingham Building Society has unveiled a new range of mortgage products and improvements. These include...

Family Building Society cuts rates by up to 65bps

Family Building Society has unveiled a new range of reduced-price mortgage products. Two-year owner occupier...

Hodge improves its professional mortgage criteria

Hodge is making what it sees as "significant enhancements" to its Professional Mortgage criteria,...

Suffolk BS moves into large loan market

Suffolk Building Society has entered the large loan market, with the introduction of a...

Penrith BS joins Paradigm panel

Paradigm has announced the addition of Penrith Building Society to its lender panel. From...

Gen H lowers revert rate and cuts SVR

Gen H is introducing a Bank of England base rate +2% revert rate for...

Saffron BS partners with Brilliant Solutions

Saffron Building Society has formed a new packager relationship with Brilliant Solutions. The distributor will...

Hanley Economic BS improves FTB offering with rate cut

Hanley Economic Building Society has made its first-time buyer proposition more competitive by reducing...

Twenty7tec adds tool to streamline adviser Consumer Duty requirements

Twenty7tec has issued a new update to its COMMUNICATE digital marketing platform to help...

Beverley BS enhances self-build mortgage proposition

Beverley Building Society has unveiled a ‘Breaking Ground’ policy update for the self-build community. ...

Vida lowers fixed rates by up to 105bps

Vida has unveiled rate reductions to its existing fixed rate buy-to-let and residential products. Residential...

COMMENT

Why the AI revolution could be a golden age for financial advice

Every major technological shift creates the same debate: will it empower professionals to do more, or eventually replace them? Artificial intelligence is simply the latest...

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...

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Advice firms step up technology use as integration remains key obstacle

Financial advice firms are taking a more proactive approach to technology, but integrating new...

Check launches mortgage readiness tool for prospective borrowers

Check.co.uk has added a mortgage readiness feature to its app, bringing together credit, affordability,...

Yorkshire BS team raises £1,000 with 198km treadmill challenge

Seven Yorkshire Building Society colleagues have completed a 198km treadmill ultramarathon to raise money...

Square 1 Media joins Momenti Group’s Observatory as corporate partner

Square 1 Media has become a corporate partner of The Observatory, the mortgage market...

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