Mortgages

New 90% deals from the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has cut the rates on two of its recently relaunched...

New fixed rates from the Nottingham

The Nottingham has launched a series of new two and three-year fixed rate mortgages. The...

More adverse BTL borrowers expected

Research by Pepper Money has indicated that brokers expect to encounter more buy-to-let customers...

Accord revises EU nationals’ lending policy

Accord Mortgages is updating its lending criteria for mortgage applicants from the European Union...

NatWest resumes higher LTV lending

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making a number of changes to loan to value limits. From...

Paradigm to hold virtual DA workshop

Paradigm Mortgage Services to hold its first online workshop to support those considering going...

Legal & General Mortgage Club reveals top SmartrCriteria searches

Legal & General’s SmartrCriteria tool saw its busiest month on record in January as...

BuildLoan unveils ERC-free variable deal

BuildLoan has introduced a new ERC-free variable rate mortgage to its offering. The new ERC-free...

First-time buyers most hit by affordability squeeze

The average maximum loan available to mortgage borrowers fell to a record low in...

Hanley Economic pauses new mortgage lending

The Hanley Economic Building Society has temporarily halted new lending while it finishes the...

The Mortgage Lender appoints London BDM

The Mortgage Lender has appointed Sarah McCawley as business development manager for Central London. McCawley...

Skipton issues new 90% shared ownership deals

The Skipton Building Society is launching a pair of new 90% shared ownership products. The...

The Bucks BS expands 90% LTV CARE availability 

The Buckinghamshire Building Society's CARE mortgage product, aimed at people working within the emergency...

Reliance Bank added to Twenty7Tec’s APPLY

Twenty7Tec has announced that Reliance Bank has been added to its APPLY module. The move...

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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