Mortgages

BuildLoan offers products for up to 90% of client build costs

BuildLoan has unveils a new range of products with Newcastle Building Society offering self...

30% rise in searches for homeowners seeking to remortgage after six months

There was a jump last month in remortgaging activity as borrowers sought to beat...

Smart Money People’s service benchmark returns

Smart Money People’s Mortgage Lender Benchmark has returned to establish which lenders are providing...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints Midlands key account manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Chris Lamming as key account manager for...

Surge in 35+ year mortgages during stamp duty holiday

The stamp duty holiday caused a surge in the number of mortgage sales with...

LiveMore Capital partners with Specialist Mortgage Group

LiveMore Capital has partnered with brokerage Specialist Mortgage Group (SMG). The new partnership allows SMG’s...

Profits up at Castle Trust Bank

Castle Trust Bank has reported pre-tax profits of £3.6m, up from £0.8m, for the financial...

Lenders & housing associations: shared ownership set for growth

Shared ownership is growing but it does not have enough consumer awareness and understanding,...

BestAdvice appoints special projects editor

Simon Read has joined BestAdvice as its special projects editor. Read (pictured) will initially be...

Brokers not confident lenders will listen to them over affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools has found that brokers overwhelmingly want lenders to take a more...

Pepper adds impaired credit remortgage products to Help to Buy range

Pepper Money has expanded its Help to Buy range with the introduction of Help...

Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter targets 200+ signatories

The Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter (MIMHC) is looking to achieve 200+ signatories by...

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...

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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