Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages appoints senior business development manager

Bluestone Mortgages has announced the appointment of Chris Lamming as senior business development manager...

The Marsden BS offers bridging alternative

The Marsden Building Society has introduced a new short-term lending solution which offers an...

12-year high for first-time buyer numbers

UK Finance has revealed that there were 370,000 new first-time buyer mortgages completed in...

Gatehouse Bank appoints director of home finance distribution

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Roger Evans as director of home finance distribution. Evans...

Skipton International extends UK buy-to-let mortgages to foreign nationals

Skipton International is extending its UK buy- to-let mortgage proposition to include applications from...

Residential and Reward rate cuts from Barclays

Barclays is making a number of rate reductions across its Residential and Reward products. These...

The Hanley Economic launches 1.84% no fee two-year BTL fix

The Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a no fee two-year fixed rate buy-to-let...

Smartr365 launches application workflow tool

Smartr365 has launched a new MortgageKanban feature. MortgageKanban is a scheduling and workflow management...

The Nottingham unveils RIO mortgages

The Nottingham Building Society has added three Retirement Interest Only (RIO) mortgages to its...

Kensington cuts residential rates by up to 25bps

Kensington Mortgages has introduced new rates across its residential mortgage range. The specialist lender has...

Secure Trust Bank confirms decision to end new mortgage lending

Secure Trust Bank (STB) has confirmed that it will cease origination of new Mortgage...

Mortgage Advice Bureau wins at learning awards

Dave Bedlow, Mortgage Advice Bureau’s head of learning & development, was recognised at the...

RBS sees profits rise to £1.6bn

Royal Bank of Scotland has reported profit of £1.622 billion. In the in a quarter...

Precise Mortgages appoints new key account manager

Precise Mortgages has appointed Jonathan Mann as a new key account manager. Mann will work...

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AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Turning challenges into opportunities

Delivering better outcomes and protecting more customers is all in a day’s work for protection advisers. But in today’s fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, navigating...

Private credit poses challenges and opportunities for UK CROs

The global financial crash of 2008 revealed the dangers of financial contagion. What began as a collapse in the United States sub-prime mortgage market...

GIS must be at the heart of place-based policymaking

The UK is under increasing pressure to deliver more homes, strengthen national infrastructure, and meet ambitious environmental goals – from the New Towns Taskforce...

The PT is dead. Long live the broker!

Did you know that every time a borrower approaches their bank directly, a mortgage broker dies? I’m teasing, of course. They don’t really die....

Landlords defy the doom – the buy-to-let bounce-back

While the Bank of England recently voted to hold the interest rate at 4%, which will have been disappointing news to landlords who had...

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Conveybuddy adds Talbots Law to expanding conveyancing panel

Conveybuddy has added Talbots Law to its conveyancing panel, bringing one of the Midlands’...

Bennison Brown renews long-term partnership with Stonebridge

London brokerage Bennison Brown has renewed its partnership with the mortgage and protection network...

Aldermore urges stamp duty holiday and revival of Help to Build in Budget

Aldermore has urged the government to introduce an 18-month stamp duty holiday for new...

Semi-commercial and HMO assets see rising demand among professional landlords

Shawbrook has reported a marked rise in interest in semi-commercial property from professional landlords,...

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