Mortgages

Record month for Complete FS

Complete FS has reported that March was its best month for new business since 2008 with...

SimplyBiz Mortgages expands Mortgage Brain partnership

SimplyBiz Mortgages has extended its partnership with Mortgage Brain. It will continue to offer the...

New BTL affordability assessment from Santander

From 19 April Santander will assess eligible buy-to-let remortgage applications, where no increase in borrowing...

Keith Street to leave Northview Group

Keith Street, vice chairman, group lending, at The Northview Group has decided to retire at...

L&G announces spring roadshow speakers

Legal & General Mortgage Club has revealed the keynote speakers and panellists for the sixth...

LMS: affordability worsening and rates expected to rise

The number of people remortgaging year-on-year in February rose by 35% to almost 44,000 according...

Atom Bank matches five-year deals to two-year fixes

For a limited time, all new Atom Bank mortgage customers will be able to...

Relatives behind half of FTB deposits

Over half of first time buyers are reliant upon family money to raise the deposit...

Fixed and tracker rate cuts from the Nationwide

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

CML: home buying up slightly

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has reported that in February, home buyers borrowed...

TMA Mortgage Club partners with Twenty7Tec

TMA Mortgage Club is now offering its club members access to Twenty7Tec's systems. Twenty7Tec Group is...

Home moving being blocked by finance issues

11% of mortgage customers - equivalent to around 1.2 million homeowners - have given...

Mortgage Gym recruits chief commercial officer

Mortgage Gym has announced the appointment of Jeremy Moll as chief commercial officer. Moll as over 28...

Landlords target affordable investments

The first quarter of the year saw landlords opting for smaller mortgages and cheaper properties,...

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

LMS deepens partnership with Gen H to support Scottish lending expansion

LMS has extended its relationship with Gen H as the lender moves into the...

Mortgage arrears and possessions fell again in Q4

Mortgage arrears and possessions both declined in the final three months of 2025, with...

PEXA joins BoE lab to test synchronised settlement in property completions

PEXA has been selected to participate in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab, a...

The Right Mortgage introduces in-house packager service for complex cases

The Right Mortgage has launched The Right Packager, a new service available to advisory...

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