Mortgages

Keystone pulls its cashback offers

Keystone Property Finance is withdrawing its tiered cashback offers next Monday (2 September). This cashback...

Accord unveils 15-year fix

Accord Mortgages has launched its first ever 15-year fixed rate mortgage. Available to both house...

Gross mortgage lending at highest level for 40 months

UK Finance has reported that gross mortgage lending across the residential market in July...

TWB tweaks residential and buy-to-let rates

TSB Bank has made a number of changes to its residential and buy-to-let mortgage...

First-time buyers remain dominant in driving housing activity

Lloyds Bank has reported that the number of people moving home increased for the...

Portfolio landlords more likely to remortgage via limited company

One-third of all landlords intend to remortgage over the course of the next 12...

Paragon increases switch product procuration fees

Paragon has updated its buy-to-let switch and further advance product range for portfolio and...

First-time buyer numbers close to pre-crash levels

The Yorkshire Building Society has calculated that the number of people buying their first...

Small fall in first-time buyer mortgages in June

UK Finance has reported that there were 32,760 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

LMS partners with Leek United

Conveyancer and panel management firm LMS has undertaken a new partnership with Leek United. The building...

S&P affirms Pepper UK’s servicing ranking

Standard & Poor has affirmed the ranking of ‘above average’ for Pepper UK as...

Leek United expands intermediary team

Leek United has made a series of appointments to its intermediary mortgage team. George Simpson...

Brokers and clients want accelerated application process

78% of intermediaries have clients who are in some way dissatisfied with the manual,...

GWlegal makes remortgage questionnaire digital

GWlegal has announced the digitalisation of its online questionnaire for remortgage clients, as well...

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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