Mortgages

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...

VIBE Specialist Finance unveils regulated mortgage and protection offering

VIBE Specialist Finance has created a new regulated mortgage and protection division to add...

Majority of brokers expect “significant” specialist lending market growth

63% of mortgage brokers expect the specialist lending market to grow significantly over the...

Dudley BS launches fixed large loan deal

The Dudley Building Society has introduced a mortgage product for borrowers wishing to borrow from...

Barclays cuts fixed and tracker mortgage rates

Barclays Mortgages has announced rate reductions across its residential product ranges for customers purchasing...

Beverley BS ups proc fee

The Beverley Building Society has increased the procuration fee it pays for new mortgage...

MBT Affordability provides Proportunity integration

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has integrated its MBT Affordability research platform with mortgage lender...

The Ipswich implements permanent hybrid business development model

The Ipswich Building Society is adopting a hybrid business development model that will see...

Keystone cuts rates & opens larger loan cashback to more landlords

Keystone Property Finance has cut rates by up to 0.2 percentage points across all...

COMMENT

You own the shares, but are you really just the custodian?

I've built three businesses and I've said the same thing most entrepreneurs have probably said to their mates and family at some point: "Give...

The FCA protection market study shouldn’t ignore redundancy

Considering a third of employers are likely to implement staff redundancies by January 2027, according to Acas, redundancy cover shouldn’t be ignored in wider...

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

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Goldman Sachs reduces Secure Trust Bank holding below 3%

Goldman Sachs has reduced its disclosed voting interest in Secure Trust Bank from 3.15%...

Global equity release lending forecast to treble to $52bn by 2035

Annual equity release lending worldwide is forecast to reach $52 billion by 2035, almost...

Buy-to-let yields climb to 15-year high as regional returns strengthen

Gross buy-to-let yields reached 7.22% in the third quarter of 2026, their highest level...

Mortgage Brain gives brokers more control over Nationwide DIP applications

Mortgage Brain has updated its Submissions Brain platform to give brokers greater control over...

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