Mortgages

Virgin Money improves 90% offering

Virgin Money has made changes to its 90% LTV products. It has also made changes...

New five-year holiday let mortgages from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has launched new holiday let products, following an increase in...

Paradigm bolsters CPD test zone

Paradigm has added new test modules to its CPD Academy Test Zone. The Test Zone...

Financial Adviser Event to hold ‘Covid-safe’ events in September

Financial Adviser Event (FAE) has two events in London and Manchester, scheduled to take...

Knowledge Bank adds new cladding categories

Knowledge Bank has introduced new criteria categories including one to support brokers to find...

Legal & General Mortgage Club expands lender panel

Molo Finance has joined Legal & General Mortgage Club’s lending panel. Molo Finance...

NatWest makes broad sweep of mortgage rate changes

NatWest is making a series of rates cuts within its new and existing customer product...

Housing market remained resilient in January

The Bank of England has reported that individuals borrowed an additional £5.2 billion secured...

The Leeds extends arrears fee moratorium

The Leeds Building Society is extending its suspension of arrears fees until the end...

Brokers offered free training sessions on new survey standard

Arnold & Baldwin is offering free one-to-one Zoom training sessions with mortgage brokers to...

Bluestone Mortgages makes four key appointments

Bluestone Mortgages has announced a number of new appointments. Jack Warner has been promoted to...

United Trust Bank unveils first-time buyer deals

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced a range of first-time buyer residential mortgages. The products are...

Government mortgage guarantee scheme rumoured

Speculation has been mounting that the government may introduce a mortgage guarantee scheme to...

MBT unveils criteria search tool

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has introduced a criteria search tool which allows users to...

COMMENT

Taking the anxiety out of finance

It’s an anxious time for mortgage borrowers. A recent study by Handelsbanken Wealth found that the proportion of UK adults apprehensive about making mortgage...

Cashback should put conveyancing into the advice conversation

One of the more interesting findings from our latest quarterly statistics was the position of Nationwide Building Society, which accounted for 25% of all...

Why ownership structure matters in buy-to-let

It's a scenario brokers encounter every day. Two landlord clients approach them about the same type of buy-to-let property, with similar levels of equity...

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...

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Foundation cuts buy-to-let rates and relaxes holiday-let occupancy rules

Foundation has reduced rates on selected buy-to-let mortgages by up to 0.10 percentage points...

FintechOS: Firms have two years to embrace AI or get left behind

Financial services firms have no more than two years to embed artificial intelligence into...

Financial services must move beyond AI experimentation to deliver real returns

Financial services firms risk wasting substantial investment in artificial intelligence unless they fundamentally rethink...

RAW Capital Partners sets new lending record as product range expands

RAW Capital Partners has reported record annual lending volumes for 2026, surpassing its total...

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