Mortgages

Q&A: Esther Morley, managing director, Secure Trust Bank Mortgages

BestAdvice (BA): What is your background? Esther Morley (EM): I joined Secure Trust Bank from Kensington...

The Leeds Building Society reduces BTL fixed rates

The Leeds Building Society has cut rates on its no fee buy-to-let mortgages range by...

The Mortgage Lender unveils exclusives

The Mortgage Lender has introduced exclusive deals for its club and network distribution partners...

Brightstar Financial celebrates originations milestone

Brightstar Financial was joined by a number of industry figures from the specialist mortgage...

MPC maintains Bank Rate at 0.5%

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has voted 6-3 to hold the Bank...

Legal & General Home Finance appoints head of mortgage broker sales

Legal & General Home Finance has announced the appointment of Marie Catch as head...

Work driving UK property market

Britons are seven times more likely to be moving home because of a change...

The Skipton cuts buy-to-let rates

The Skipton Building Society is cutting rates by up to 0.23 percentage points across its...

Bank of Ireland UK extends new build to all brokers

Bank of Ireland UK is rolling out its new build proposition following a pilot. New...

Gatehouse Bank joins SimplyBiz Mortgages’ panel

Gatehouse Bank has become the latest lender to join SimplyBiz Mortgages’ panel. Gatehouse Bank offers...

Accord offers broker online review service

Accord Mortgages has introduced a new online review generator with the aim of helping...

The Hanley Economic extends 95% LTV new build offering

The Hanley Economic Building Society has extended the LTV on new build houses and...

TMA appoints key account manager

TMA Mortgage Club has announced the appointment of John Wilson as a field based key...

Leek United doubles mortgage offer period

Leek United has doubled the offer period on its mortgages from three months to six...

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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