Mortgages

OMS begins integration with United Trust Bank

One Mortgage System (OMS) has initiated a stage one integration with United Trust Bank...

IMLA: first-time buyers key to economic recovery

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is calling on the government to assess the...

Accord ups max loan size and removes property value restrictions

Accord Mortgages has removed all property value restrictions and returned its maximum loan size...

Nationwide reduces fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting rates on selected two, three, five and 10-year...

NatWest adds additional borrowing to product transfers

NatWest has changed its product transfer process by enabling an application for additional borrowing...

Brokers still upbeat about mortgage market outlook

Masthaven has found that intermediaries remain confident in the mortgage market’s prospects for the...

Report: advisers expect to expand later life advice

44% of mortgage advisers are active in the later life market, with equity release...

Knowledge Bank partners with Hodge

Knowledge Bank has joined forces with specialist lender Hodge, to provide brokers with criteria...

Mortgage Engine hires senior relationship manager

Mortgage Engine has appointed Natalie Strong as senior relationship manager. Strong (pictured) joins the...

Melanie Spencer to replace Phil Whitehouse at MCI Club

Phil Whitehouse has decided to step down from his position as head of MCI Mortgage...

New affordability calculator from Leek United

Leek United has introduced a new residential affordability calculator to help brokers establish if...

The Leeds resumes 85% LTV lending

The Leeds Building Society has restarted lending at 85% loan to value (LTV) as...

Newcastle Intermediaries expands remortgage range

Newcastle Intermediaries has extended its remortgage range with the addition of a new 60%...

Mortgage Broker Tools partners with HLP

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has joined with HL Partnership to provide its members with...

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...

Latest news

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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