Mortgages

SPF Private Clients integrates with Yourkeys

SPF Private Clients has completed a full integration with property software solution Yourkeys. Yourkeys, which...

Newcastle Intermediaries introduces new Help to Buy remortgage product

Newcastle Intermediaries has expanded its Help to Buy range, introducing a new Help to...

Aldermore unveils new purchase and remortgage deals

Aldermore bank has revamped its residential owner occupied mortgage range, introducing new products for...

Climate change and the need to improve EPC ratings

The UK was the first country to set an ambitious target to bring all...

Are strides being made in the green mortgage market?

Back in October 2018 we introduced the Barclays Green Home Mortgage. As the first...

Masthaven cuts residential first charge rates

Masthaven Bank has made a series of rate cuts on its residential first charge...

NatWest cuts rates by up to 84bps

NatWest has made a series of changes across its product portfolio for both new...

Virgin Money introduces new remortgage exclusives

Virgin Money is launching two new remortgage exclusives and reducing rates on a number...

Barclays announces BTL and residential rate cuts

Barclays Mortgages have made rate reductions across its residential and buy-to-let product ranges for...

Landbay unveils rate reductions

Landbay has lowered pricing across the majority of its core products, including its green...

Dudley BS replaces 5-year fixed range with single 95% product

The Dudley Building Society has simplified its fixed rate product range by replacing it...

Mortgage Brain’s Lendex now includes Accord products

Accord Mortgages has now gone live on Lendex, Mortgage Brain's multi-lender application and submission gateway. The...

Coventry for intermediaries’ BDMs return to face-to-face meetings

Feld business development managers (BDMs) at Coventry for intermediaries are going back on the...

PRIMIS product desk queries up 10% month-on-month

PRIMIS Mortgage Network supported Appointed Representative (AR) advisers with 2,123 queries in July, 10% higher...

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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