Mortgages

MoneySuperMarket extends partnership with Optimus

Conveyancing panel management specialist, Optimus, has announced that its agreement with MoneySuperMarket has been...

Smaller lenders key to meeting affordability requirements

Data from MBT Affordability suggests that whole of market research that includes smaller lenders...

Castle Trust cuts rates by 0.25 points

Castle Trust Bank has reduced rates on all of its term products by 0.25...

Legal & General launches criteria and affordability tool

Legal & General has unveiled SmartrFit, a mortgage criteria search tool and affordability calculator...

Knowledge Bank: people desperate to get on the property ladder

Knowledge Bank has revealed the details of the leading criteria searches made on its...

Paradigm issues self-employed lending guide

Paradigm Mortgage Services  has launched a new ebook for advisers called ‘Lending to the self-employed’. The...

Buy-to-let rate cuts at Pepper Money

Pepper Money has reduced rates on a selection of its buy-to-let mortgage products. The specialist...

MCI expands lender panel with mutual appointment

MCI mortgage club has added the Buckinghamshire Building Society to its panel. The club said...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints head of sales & marketing

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Reece Beddall as its new head of sales...

Smartr365 agrees digital ID verification partnership

Mortgage platform, Smartr365, has signed a new exclusive partnership with Digidentity, a digital ID provider. Smartr365...

Accord extends 90% LTV broker-exclusive availability period

Accord Mortgages is extending its 90% LTV home purchase range, available for first-time buyers...

Covid: affordability ‘biggest challenge’ for brokers

The vast majority (94%) of brokers admit that they currently need to shop around...

Mortgage platform selects Open Banking partner

Digital mortgage platform Koodoo has chosen credit reference agency Credit Kudos as its Open...

Together: we’re open for business during lockdown

Specialist lender Together has outlined its strategy as the UK enters its second lockdown. Together...

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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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