Mortgages

MBT reveals top residential lenders for affordability

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has used the two million searches processed through the MBT Affordability...

Meridian Mortgages to acquire Metro Finance with MAB support

Meridian Mortgages has acquired specialist shared ownership broker firm, Metro Finance. The strategic acquisition sees...

TSB to offer 95% LTV mortgages next month 

TSB Bank has become to the latest lender to signal a 95% loan to...

Richard Tugwell to replace Louisa Sedgwick at Vida

Vida has announced that Richard Tugwell is to become its next director of mortgage...

Over 4,000 ‘webcasts’ held with Accord over past week

A year after launching in response to the lockdown, Accord Mortgages has reported its...

Virgin cuts residential and buy-to-let mortgage rates

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

‘Furlough-friendly’ mortgages top criteria searches

Legal & General has reported that mortgage brokers were sourcing furlough-friendly mortgages more than...

The Skipton rejoins 95% LTV mortgage lending space

The Skipton Building Society has launched two new deals as it  re-enters the 95% mortgage...

Lenders continue to tighten self-employed criteria

There was a fall in February in the number of cases where at least...

Legal & General Mortgage Club unveils exclusives

Legal & General Mortgage Club has introduced new exclusive products from the Buckinghamshire Building...

3mc offers exclusive Dudley BS shared ownership deal

3mc is to market an exclusive Heylo shared ownership product designed in partnership with...

MPowered Mortgages launches into buy-to-let market

MQube has launched MPowered, a platform it says it has developed two better serve mortgage...

HSBC cuts rates and extends higher LTV borrowing

HSBC UK has reduced 20 mortgage rates, with cuts of up to 0.1 percentage...

Covid costs compounded by SVR rollover

19% of homeowners haven't been able to remortgage their home since the Covid pandemic...

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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