Mortgages

John Truswell leaves Together to join Newcastle Intermediaries

John Truswell has joined Newcastle Building Society as its head of intermediary mortgages. Truswell (pictured)...

Accord unveils purchase and remortgage rate reductions

Accord Mortgages has cut rates across its house purchase and remortgage product range. Over £26...

Core business up at Stonebridge Group

Mortgage and insurance network Stonebridge Group has reported an increase across all three of...

Clydesdale Bank Intermediaries cuts fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank Intermediaries is reducing rates by up to 0.35 percentage points across its...

LendInvest joins MCI Mortgage Club lender panel

LendInvest has become the latest provider to join MCI Mortgage Club’s lender panel. MCI Mortgage...

Zephyr Homeloans bins upfront application fee

Buy-to-let lender Zephyr Homeloans is to no longer charge an upfront application fee. The lender,...

Mortgage Brain appoints sales and marketing director

Mortgage Brain has appointed Neil Wyatt as its new sales and marketing director. Wyatt has over...

NatWest unveils wide range of rate reductions

NatWest is to introduce rate changes on selected core and semi-exclusive residential products tomorrow...

Paragon reveals John Heron’s successor

Paragon Banking Group will be appointing Richard Rowntree as its new managing director of...

Interest-only remains most popular mortgage criteria search

Criteria search firm Knowledge Bank has reported that interest-only loans have maintained their place...

Barclays unveils new Great Escape three-year deals

Barclays has made a number of positive changes across its Residential and Reward ranges. It...

UTB to use facial recognition for ID verification

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced an electronic ‘facial recognition’ ID verification service through...

ULS to provide conveyancing services to the Principality

ULS Technology has signed a conveyancing service agreement with the Principality Building Society. The Principality...

Kensington makes widespread rate reductions

Kensington Mortgages has made interest rate cuts on its Young Professional, Large Loan, Select,...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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Survey reveals cost of living pressures and tax fears weighing on mutual’s members

Concerns over the cost of living and the prospect of tax rises continue to...

Hope Capital gains dual recognition for workplace standards

Hope Capital Property Finance has been accredited as a Living Wage Employer and has...

Industry partnership launches 95% funded pathway to address adviser shortage

A national initiative has been launched to confront the growing shortage of qualified financial...

British Business Bank sets out five-year plan to reshape finance for smaller firms

The British Business Bank has outlined plans to deliver what it describes as a...

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