Mortgages

Completions at a 10-year high

Property transactions completed in January were the highest in a decade, according to latest...

Virgin Money cuts residential mortgage rates

Virgin Money has made a series of rate cuts in its range of residential...

Mortgage Brain to hold March Mortgage Vision event online

Mortgage Brain is to hold its Mortgage Vision event in March in a new...

Self-employed mortgage affordability still an issue

There is at least one lender available to meet the loan requirements of self-employment...

Metro Bank revamps higher LTV offering

Metro Bank has made changes to its higher LTV residential products. At 90% LTV, the...

Aldermore upgrades its product switch functionality

Aldermore has introduced new product switch functionality, with a six-step online process, following an...

Mortgage Brain’s Lendex now open to all advisers

Following a pilot, Mortgage Brain has made Lendex available to all mortgage advisers. Lendex is a the...

LV= offers lifetime mortgage cashback deal

LV= has unveiled a 1% cashback deal across its Drawdown + and Lump Sum+...

Smartr365 unveils video and audio call functionality

Smartr365 has introduced a new feature called SmartrTalk, powered by Microsoft. The end-to-end platform for...

BEP Systems to provide lending solutions to Jordan International Bank

BEP Systems has been appointed by Jordan International Bank Plc (JIB) to provide system...

Foundation Home Loans offers ‘green reward’ buy-to-let

Foundation Home Loans has launched a ‘Green Reward’ remortgage for landlords The five-year fixed-rate mortgage...

Record month for PRIMIS mortgage desk

PRIMIS Mortgage Network's product desk resolved a total of 2,462 inbound queries from Appointed...

IMLA: energy proposals “fall far short”

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has voiced its concerns over new government proposals...

The Dudley to help the long-term disabled into home ownership

The Dudley Building Society has partnered with My Safe Home, a provider of help...

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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