Mortgages

Vida offers free remortgage legals

Vida Homeloans' Fee Saver product range now includes free legals for residential remortgages. ...

The low hanging fruit

Robert Sinclair, chief executive of the Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, told the audience at...

Rise in importance of the Bank of Mum and Dad

The 'bank of Mum and Dad' will lend over £6.5 billion in 2017, up...

Pepper cuts non-conforming residential rates

Pepper Homeloans has cuts 30-month, two and five-year fixed rates in its non-conforming residential mortgage product...

The Skipton appoints IRM

The Skipton Building Society has added Rachael Hunnisett to its team of intermediary regional managers (IRMs). Hunnisett has...

IMLA predicts 6% market growth this year

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) believes this year the mortgage market will achieve the highest...

10% rise in RBS gross mortgage lending

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reported a profit of £259 million for the...

Accord alters minimum rental cover requirements

Accord Buy To Let is changing its approach to minimum rental cover requirements. The lender...

The Bath BS sees record mortgage lending

The Bath Building Society Group has reported increase in its mortgage book in 2016...

Nationwide makes cuts to fixed and tracker rates

The Nationwide Building Society has cut rates on certain two and five-year fixed and two-year tracker...

New ‘market leading’ BTL deal from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has launched a five year fixed rate buy-to-let mortgage at...

Kensington cuts bulk of residential mortgage rates

Kensington Mortgages will reduce rate across its residential mortgage range tomorrow (27 April). ...

Accord cuts buy-to-let remortgage rates

Accord Buy to Let has made reductions of 20 basis points on selected remortgage...

Complete FS to hold national specialist lending forums

Complete FS is hosting three specialist lending forums during May. Details are as follows: 9...

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

Green shoots for housing market as confidence rebounds

Surveyors are reporting the clearest signs yet that the housing slowdown may be bottoming...

AML regime ‘costing billions with little return’

Global anti-money laundering rules are imposing vast costs on banks while recovering less than...

HSBC UK to host Spring Budget economy webinars for intermediaries

HSBC UK is inviting brokers to join a series of economy update webinars focused...

Clydesdale Bank hikes selected residential fixed rates

Clydesdale Bank is increasing a range of residential fixed rate products across purchase, remortgage...

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