Mortgages

Rates down, proc fees up at Bluestone Mortgages

Bluestone Mortgages has made a number of changes to its offering. It has launched new fixed...

Just Mortgages unveils broker training academy

Just Mortgages has introduced a training academy, following two pilots earlier in the year.  The...

Home buyer activity in London continues to fall

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in the first quarter of...

The Adviser Alliance partners with Brilliant Solutions

The Adviser Alliance will deliver its mortgage club proposition with Brilliant Solutions. The direct to...

Tenet to distribute Ipswich BS products

Tenet has joined Ipswich Building Society’s panel of approved intermediaries. Gemma Harle, TenetLime's managing director,...

Tesco Bank unveils its lowest ever tracker rate

Tesco Bank has introduced its lowest ever tracker rate mortgage at 0.98%. It has also reduced...

New larger loan deals from Accord Mortgages

Accord Mortgages has unveiled a range of new mortgages for borrowers looking for a larger loan...

Sharp fall in BTL lending at Paragon

The Paragon Group of Companies has reported that its new buy-to-let lending totalled £556.2 million for...

Record mortgage lending for the Nationwide

The Nationwide Building Society lent a record £33.7 billion in the year to 4...

Limited company BTL grows in popularity

Research from moneyfacts.co.uk shows that the proportion of buy-to-let deals available to limited companies has...

The Family BS joins Positive panel

Positive Lending has announced the addition of the Family Building Society to its packager...

New ICR calculation from Coventry for Intermediaries

Coventry for intermediaries has introduced a tiered ICR proposition for buy-to-let landlords, based on...

Robo mortgage adviser raises £2m in seed funding

MortgageGym has completed a seed funding round of £2m ahead of its official launch this...

Merger agreed between well-established packagers

TFC Homeloans and Solent Mortgage Services are to merge. Managing director of SMS, Ian Balfour, will...

COMMENT

First-time buyers and buy-to-let are not rivals

As we move further into 2026, a familiar narrative is starting to reappear. It suggests that a stronger first-time buyer market will be delivered...

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...

Latest news

Mortgage arrears set to hit record lows despite rate shock

Mortgage arrears are forecast to fall further over the next two years even as...

Family BS launches 100% LTV fix backed by family security

Family Building Society has entered the 100% LTV arena with the launch of an...

Savings gap widens as protection message fails to land

A growing number of UK households are dangerously exposed to income shocks despite advisers...

The Suffolk cuts buy-to-let rates by up to 26bps

Suffolk Building Society has reduced a range of 80% LTV buy-to-let fixed rates by...

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