Mortgages

12% rise in Virgin Money’s gross mortgage lending

Virgin Money has reported a 33% rise in pre-tax profits for 2016 to £213.3...

First Complete & Pink urges broker action over BTL changes

First Complete and Pink are calling for brokers to ensure landlords on their books...

Front Events reveals Midlands events

Front Events, organisers of the Financial Services Expo (FSE) exhibitions, will be running two...

Bluestone Mortgages appoints MD

Bluestone Group has announced the appointment of David Torpey as managing director of Bluestone Mortgages and...

The changing face of lending into retirement

Lending into retirement has been a major bug bear for borrowers in recent years...

Magellan products now available through PMS 

Magellan Homeloans' range of products are now available to members of the PMS Mortgage...

Large jump in profits at the Newcastle

The Newcastle Building Society has reported that its pre-tax profits increased to £8.1m for the year...

Aldermore outlines retention fee offering

Aldermore is to launch a retention procuration fee for brokers on 3 April 2017. Procuration fees will be available...

Remortgaging approvals up 16% year-on-year

Latest high street banking data from the British Bankers' Association (BBA) shows that consumer...

The Coventry reports 13% rise in new lending

The Coventry Building Society has reported 'record results' for 2016. The mutual's full year results show record mortgage...

New buy-to-let deals from Pepper Homeloans

Pepper Homeloans has launched two and five-year buy-to-let fixed rates and cutting some existing rates by...

Magellan partners with 3mc

Magellan Homeloans is to distribute its full range of mortgage products via the specialist distributor...

New Help to Buy deal from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society has reported continued strong demand for Help to Buy Equity loan...

Lowest rate ever for Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has made changes to its specialist buy-to-let mortgage range, with rates now starting from 2.99%,...

COMMENT

The self-employed boom and why traditional life cover won’t cut it

There’s a shift happening in how people work and how they buy homes - especially for the self-employed and gig economy worker. Flexibility, autonomy and...

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...

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Sellers willing to pay £300 to secure property sales

Nine in 10 homeowners would be prepared to pay around £300 upfront to help...

Tembo secures £16m to expand digital savings and mortgage platform for first-time buyers

Tembo has raised £16m in growth funding as it looks to scale its savings...

Nationwide reduces fixed rates by up to 0.16%

Nationwide is reducing selected two-year, three-year and five-year fixed mortgage rates by as much...

Half of borrowers undecided as fixed rates end

More than half of homeowners coming to the end of a fixed-rate deal are...

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