Mortgages

Afin Bank set to offer mortgages to diaspora communities in the UK

A new digital bank focused on the African diaspora and other under-served communities is...

Skipton lowers income threshold for high LTI mortgages

Skipton Building Society is lowering the minimum income threshold required for borrowers seeking high...

Sellers cut prices sharply to compete as buyers regain confidence

UK housing stock may be at its most plentiful in over a decade but...

Hamptons downgrades rental growth forecast as demand shifts to sales market

Hamptons has sharply downgraded its rental growth forecast for 2025, projecting that rents across...

Clydesdale Bank eases mortgage rules for foreign nationals

Clydesdale Bank has introduced a series of changes to their mortgage lending criteria, aimed...

The Coventry drops residential rates following stress test revision

Coventry for intermediaries has announced rate reductions across selected residential mortgage products, cutting rates...

Lenderhive launches to simplify access to green mortgages

A new digital mortgage brokerage, Lenderhive, has officially launched today, promising to simplify the...

Barclays cuts 32 rates and unveils market-leading two-year fixes

Barclays has announced a wave of rate reductions across its residential mortgage range, with...

The Coventry relaxes stress test to boost borrowing power

Coventry for intermediaries has eased its mortgage stress testing criteria, enabling borrowers to secure...

LMS improves its remortgage technology with DART update

LMS has announced an update to its Decisioning and Automated Remortgage Technology (DART), aimed...

Pepper Money launches Flex proposition to ease broker access to inclusive mortgage options

Specialist lender Pepper Money has unveiled a new proposition, Pepper Flex, designed to streamline...

Affordability crunch: private renters struggling to save as housing costs soar

A growing divide between renters and homeowners is placing mounting pressure on first-time buyer...

Foundation Home Loans cuts rates and expands residential range

Foundation Home Loans has unveiled a raft of changes to its residential mortgage offering,...

Paradigm adds Ecology Building Society to lender panel

Paradigm Mortgage Services has become the first mortgage club to add Ecology Building Society...

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...

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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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