Mortgages

IMLA spells out its Budget wishlist

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) wants the Budget to take action in a...

Help landlords with green rules, Chancellor told

Online buy-to-let mortgage broker, Property Master, is calling on the Chancellor to offer more...

Knowledge Bank and Iress to provide integrated search

Knowledge Bank and Iress have teamed to a fully-integrated product and criteria sourcing system. The...

Foundation cuts residential and BTL rates

Foundation Home Loans has reduced rates within both its residential and buy-to-let ranges. Its residential range...

Average gifted deposit tops £40k

Older homeowners gifted an average of £42,500 to younger relatives to help them get...

Just Mortgages opens doors to 2021 academy

Just Mortgages is looking to start training its next group of potential brokers on...

Think tanks warns of 770,000 at risk of repossession

The Social Market Foundation has revealed that nearly 800,000 households could be vulnerable to repossession...

BuildLoan unveils discounted deals for self-builders

BuildLoan has cut the rates on a range of self build mortgages, The variable rate...

Stamp Duty holiday extension rumoured

The Times has reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to extend the Stamp...

New CEO for Mortgage Brain

Mortgage Brain has announced that Zahid Bilgrami has been appointed as group CEO and...

Virgin Money creates team to help advisers with brand integrations

Virgin Money has introduced a new business development team to provide brokers with a...

New 60% deal and rate cuts from Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting rates on selected mortgages across its range by...

Together cuts two and five-year fixed rates

Specialist lender Together has launched new Prime Plus two-year fixed mortgages. They are at a...

Skipton for Intermediaries appoints telephone BDM

Skipton for Intermediaries has announced the appointment of Hannah Garside to its team of...

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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