Mortgages

BuildStore appoints chief operating officer

BuildStore Group has appointed Julian Foster as its new chief operating officer (COO). Foster has...

Coventry for Intermediaries unveils new 95% LTV two-year fix

Coventry for Intermediaries has added to its 95% LTV range with a new two-year...

Barclays to cut residential and BTL rates tomorrow

Barclays is making changes across its residential (including Mortgage Guarantee Scheme (MGS) and Green...

Keystone cuts rates and offers increased cashback

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates by up to 0.25 percentage points and has...

Accord Mortgages reviews residential offering

Accord Mortgages is revising its residential mortgage range this week. The intermediary-only lender is changing...

New bank to promote blood donation

The Blood Bank, a mortgage and property finance collective, has launched to promote the...

Smartr365 unveils SmartrInsight for business performance analysis

Users of Smartr365 can now analyse their business performance from the platform with the newly...

Promotion for Carruthers at Iress

Iress has promoted Steve Carruthers to the position of head of business development -...

Virgin Money cuts residential and buy-to-let rates

Virgin Money has made a series of reductions to its residential and buy-to-let mortgages. The...

HRMC: April residential transactions down 36%

HRMC has revealed that its provisional seasonally adjusted estimate of UK residential transactions...

Criteria Hub reaches 80 lender milestone

MPowered Mortgages has become the latest lender to go live on Criteria Hub. The criteria-based...

Over-55s’ interest-only a no-go area for large minority of brokers

A recent webinar LiveMore Capital held in conjunction with Knowledge Bank looked at what types...

NatWet makes new business rate changes

NatWest is making a number of changes to its product range for new business...

SmartrCriteria sees major rise in searches for satisfied defaults

Legal & General Mortgage Club’s SmartrCriteria tool continued to deliver thousands of searches for...

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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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