Mortgages

SBG and Aviva fund blockchain-based mortgage startup

Sesame Bankhall Group and Aviva announce £5 million Acre Software investment in exclusive deal...

Portico launches mortgage and protection service

London estate and letting agency, Portico, has launched Portico Finance, a mortgage broker and...

Connect for Intermediaries to hold more training academies

Connect for Intermediaries has planned seven extra training academies this year following demand after...

New affordability platform introduced

Mortgage Broker Tools (MBT) has launched MBT Affordability. It is designed to provider brokers with...

Brightstar Financial to hold spring webinars

Brightstar Financial has teamed up with a number of industry partners to launch a...

Newcastle Intermediaries cuts rates at 95% LTV

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut its 95% LTV range by up to 0.27 percentage points....

Leek United appoints business development manager

Leek United has appointed Dan Berrisford as business development manager. Berrisford (pictured) has over 12 years’...

Barclays cuts five-year rates

Barclays has cut certain rates within its five year purchase and remortgage product range. The rate...

Platform removes housing benefit lending restrictions

Platform has removed all letting conditions that restrict landlords letting to tenants who receive...

The Vernon unveils retention proc fees

The Vernon Building Society has introduced retention proc fees along with its new range...

TMA to hold 2019 DA ‘new starter’ induction course

TMA Club has announced this year’s dates for its three-day Directly Authorised (DA) Induction...

Platform cuts 95% LTV rates

Platform is cutting interest rates on its 95% LTV mortgage range by up to 0.15...

Mortgage volumes up 9.7% at the Marsden

The Marsden Building Society has reported record performance in 2018, with it increasing the...

NatWest cuts residential and BTL rates

NatWest has made rate cuts on selected core and semi-exclusive residential and buy-to-let products. These...

COMMENT

Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

Latest news

The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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