Mortgages

Buy-to-let purchases up 5.5% year-on-year

UK Finance has revealed that there were 32,640 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Mortgage lending up 21% at Openwork

Openwork hard reported an 18% rise in pre-tax profits, reaching a new record of £22.6m. The...

Reliance Bank joins PMS and Sesame lender panels

PMS Mortgage Club and Sesame Network have added Reliance Bank’s range of mortgage products...

Buy-to-let mortgage costs continue to fall

Latest figures from Mortgage Brain’s quarterly product data analysis reveal that mortgage costs in...

Just Mortgages appoints three areas directors to self-employed division

Three new area directors have joined Just Mortgages’ self-employed division. Jonathan Phillips joined last week,...

Brokers “missing out on six out of 10” buy-to-let transactions

Specialist buy-to-let mortgage brokers are missing out on £21bn of purchase and remortgage loans for...

Barclays to offer 1.58% five-year fix

Barclays is making a fresh round of rate reductions across its Residential and Reward...

Vida unveils specialist education campaign

Vida Homeloans has introduced an education campaign aimed at showcasing typical specialist customers, ranging...

HLPartnership to hold technology and marketing workshops

HLPartnership (HLP) is holding six workshops during September for its network members and other...

Foundation Home Loans unveils new five-year BTL fixes

Foundation Home Loans has launched two new five-year buy-to-let fixed-rate products and made a...

Rolling onto SVR could cost £2k p.a.

New research by comparethemarket.com shows that homeowners who roll onto an SVR could see...

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...

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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