Mortgages

Clydesdale Bank increases fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank has announced changes to its product range. Rates have been increased on a...

Right partnerships can help home improvers secure funds quickly

This year looks like being a strong one for remortgages. We knew already that...

Virgin Money increases rates and removes trackers

Virgin Money has increased a number of fixed rates and withdrawn a tracker range. The...

Smartr365 completes new investment round

End-to-end mortgage platform, Smartr365, has secured further funding from investors, alongside a pre-money valuation...

Stonebridge reports completion volume rise of 33%

Mortgage and insurance network, Stonebridge, has reported mortgage application and completion growth through 2021...

LMS: remortgage instructions up 51% in February

LMS has issued its February Remortgage Snapshot. It reported that instructions increased by 51% last month. The...

Health Shield appoints new CEO

Health Shield Friendly Society has announced the appointment of Jacqui Carr as its new...

Virgin Money increases selected fixed rates

Virgin Money has made changes to selected fixed rate mortgages. The changes came into force...

Iress, Mortgage Brain and Twenty7Tec aim to standardise terminology

Iress, Mortgage Brain and Twenty7Tec are developing a common set of terminology and language...

OSB Group sets up High Net Worth division

OSB Group is to introduce a new High Net Worth client management team lead...

MBT adds second charge equity loan provider to platform

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with Even, a...

BuildLoan expands large loan mortgage range

Self and custom build mortgage distributor BuildLoan has launched a new product range with...

Q&A: Maeve Ward, Central Trust/Mercantile Trust

BestAdvice fires the questions at Maeve Ward, director of commercial operations at Central Trust...

Skipton to leave SVR/MVR unchanged despite BoE rate rise

Skipton Building Society will not pass on yesterday's Bank of England Bank Rate increase...

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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