Mortgages

Major distributor trio unveil Mortgage Climate Action Group

Three mortgage distributors, Legal & General, Sesame Bankhall Group and SimplyBiz Mortgages, have announced...

LiveMore creates four-tier structure to product range

LiveMore Capital has revised its entire product range for borrowers aged 50 to 90+. Instead...

New client vulnerability rating tool launches to brokers

MorganAsh has launched a consumer vulnerability assessment tool, providing an objective ‘resilience rating’ similar...

Borrowers would like to use mortgage to fund cosmetic surgery

7% of male mortgage holders and 3% of female ones would consider extending their...

Buy-to-let driving growth in green mortgage market

Defaqto has examined how the green mortgage market is growing, incentivising homeowners to make...

LendingMetrics reports significant rise in OpenBankVision enquiries

LendingMetrics has reported a "skyrocketing" in enquiries for its OpenBankVision (OBV) platform following the...

Equifax ID checks now integrated into Acre

End-to-end mortgage platform, Acre, has integrated Equifax into its software. Acre says this means...

Demand remains high despite fall in transaction numbers

HMRC's provisional non-seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions in March 2022 is 110,990,...

Trussle: longer mortgages set to eat into pensions

The next generation of homeowners may well be paying off their mortgages into retirement,...

United Trust Bank passes £1 billion lending milestone

United Trust Bank (UTB) has passed the £1 billion mark in specialist mortgage lending. This...

Finova unveils data management platform

Finova has launched Broker ID, a data management platform designed to save lenders’ time and money...

Foundation promotes pair to senior regional account manager positions

Foundation Home Loans has announced the promotions of Keith Jones and Katie Quigley to...

Knowledge Bank & UTB create “industry-first” digital criteria guide

Knowledge Bank has teamed up with United Trust Bank (UTB) to create a bespoke...

IMLA welcomes trio of new mutual members

The Cumberland Building Society, Saffron Building Society, and Melton Building Society have become the...

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...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

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

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

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

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

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

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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