Mortgages

Virgin Money cuts buy-to-let and residential rates

Virgin Money is making a number of reductions across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

Family BS revamps residential mortgage range

The Family Building Society has given its mortgage product offering for new business a...

Together’s inaugural first charge only RMBS receives pricing

Together Financial Services Limited has revealed the pricing of its inaugural first charge only...

Significant rise in borrower numbers for larger mortgages

The average amount that homeowners looked to borrow increased from just above £170,000 in...

The Dudley allows 1-year self-employed access to whole range

The Dudley Building Society has opened its complete residential product range up to self-employed...

Metro Bank ups maximum new build LTV

Metro Bank has increased its maximum LTV for new build flats and houses to...

Accord improves residential range with rate cuts

Accord Mortgages is making a number of changes to its residential mortgage offering, with...

Covid: majority of self-employed received no government support

Research from The Mortgage Lender has found that the majority of self-employed people in...

Equity loan provider sets sights on first-time buyer market

Mortgage lender Ahauz has launched today and will will lend first-time buyers an equity loan...

Darlington BS to utilise LendingMetrics’ ADP

Darlington Building Society is implementing a new assisted underwriting platform to speed up decisioning...

Kensington unveils income recovery and shared ownership deals

Kensington Mortgages has introduced an income recovery product for self-employed borrowers impacted by the...

Long recovery period ahead for self-employed

The financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will be potentially long lasting for the...

Castle Trust Bank strengthens broker support team

Castle Trust Bank has appointed a pair of new business development managers (BDMs). Leanne Arundell...

Brokers can help FTBs with credit issues

The recent growth in the number of lenders offering high LTV mortgage products to...

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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