Mortgages

Self-employed struggling to be approved by lenders

There is an effective ‘access gap’ for self-employed borrowers, compared to those with more...

Stonebridge lending volumes up 11%

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge has published its 2019 trading results. Mortgage completions nudged £8...

OMS integrates credit reporting facilities

One Mortgage System (OMS) has integrated UK Credit Ratings into its live platform. The move...

The Hinckley & Rugby to split mortgages

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society will now allow mortgages to be split, in...

Pepper Money breaks £1bn barrier

Pepper Money has revealed that it completed more than £1bn worth of first and...

The Mansfield backs Scotland First Home Fund initiative

The Mansfield Building Society has made its standard residential and specialist Versatility mortgage range...

Pepper Money introduces electronic identity verification

Pepper Money hade introduced automatic electronic identification and residency verification (E-ID), removing the requirement...

The Yorkshire eases self-employed evidence requirements

The Yorkshire Building Society is cutting the number of years’ evidence required from those...

Hodge aligns minimum ages of interest-only products

Hodge has lowered the minimum age of its Residential Interest Only mortgage from 55+...

PRIMIS adds Vida Homeloans to lender panel

PRIMIS Mortgage Network is welcoming specialist lender, Vida Homeloans, onto its lender panel. Members of...

Beaumont to become The Mortgage Lender chief exec

Peter Beaumont is to head up The Mortgage Lender following record performance in 2019...

BoE: December rise in approvals

The Bank of England has reported that net mortgage borrowing increased to £4.6 billion...

Pepper’s European servicing arm acquired by Link Group

Link Group has agreed to acquire Pepper European Servicing (PES) from Pepper Group for...

NatWest cuts selected rates by 15bps

NatWest has made rate reductions on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products. Reductions of up...

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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