Mortgages

Smartr365 appoints product engineering lead

Smartr365 has today announced the appointment of Edwin Halakooei as product engineering lead. Halakooei (pictured)...

BoE: sharp rise in mortgage approvals

The Bank of England's latest Money and Credit report, covering June, has revealed that...

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) appoints new build consultant

Douglas Cochrane is to join Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) as new build strategic consultant...

Virgin Money pulls selected 85% LTV purchase deals

Virgin Money is withdrawing some of its 85% LTV purchase products for new customers. The...

Accord ups higher LTV maximum loan sizes

Accord Mortgages has increased its maximum loan size to £2 million on new lending...

Dynamo for Intermediaries expands panel

Dynamo for Intermediaries has added Hodge to its lender panel. Members of Dynamo for Intermediaries...

SimplyBiz Mortgages to hold summer ‘festival of learning’

SimplyBiz Mortgages has unveiled a six-week programme of virtual events taking place throughout the...

Kensington completes largest securitisation under Covid-19

Kensington Mortgages has raised £650m of funding through the wholesale financial markets. The deal -...

The Mansfield resumes holiday let lending

The Mansfield Building Society has reintroduced its holiday let mortgage product with a three-year...

NatWest moves back into 85% LTV

NatWest has reintroduced eight new rates at 85% LTV. The rates, available for both new...

Bureaucratic backlogs boost e-verification adoption

Anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch has claimed that backlogs in issuing official ID documents such as...

Mortgage Brain: purchase ESIS “markedly” above pre-Covid levels

Mortgage Brain has reported that the number of ESIS generated through its sourcing systems...

Stafford Railway joins mortgage club panel

SimplyBiz Mortgages has announced that the Stafford Railway Building Society (Stafford Railway) has joined...

UTB campaign seeks to help mortgage brokers write more business

United Trust Bank (UTB) has launched its #BrokerSummerSupportPackage campaign. Over the coming weeks the bank...

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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