Mortgages

New jobs at Target Group

Target Group has created over 250 new jobs. The planned expansion follows last week’s announcement...

Pepper hires regional manager for the north

Pepper Homeloans has appointed Ryan Brailsford as its regional development manager for the north...

Solution proposed to ‘holistic’ debate

The Society of Mortgage Professionals says it is confident that the Financial Conduct Authority's...

IMLA sees further growth for FTB market in 2016

Homemovers had the highest success rate for turning mortgage applications into completions during the first quarter...

Accord Mortgages cuts higher LTV rates

Accord Mortgages has cut rates at higher loan-to-values (LTVs) and introducing new options across its...

N&P unveils lowest 90% LTV 5-year deal

The Norwich & Peterborough Building Society has launched a 2.93% five-year fixed rate for...

The Nationwide cuts fixed rate deals

The Nationwide Building Society is cutting a number of fixed rate mortgages at up to 75 per...

New professional deals from Paragon

Paragon Mortgages has updated its professional buy-to-let product range, including the addition of six...

Kent Reliance to pay product transfer proc fee

Kent Reliance has unveiled its ‘Choices’ product transfer scheme that pays a procuration fee for brokers,...

The Skipton removes FTB max loan size cap

The Skipton Building Society and its intermediary lending arm, Skipton Intermediaries, have removed their maximum...

The Ipswich cuts rates for mortgage misfits

The Ipswich Building Society has cut rates for nine of its mortgage products, available to...

Brightstar launches EasySource

Brightstar has officially launched its new sourcing system, EasySource, today. The system, which took two...

Pepper Homeloans improves self-employed criteria

Pepper Homeloans has reducing the minimum trading period for self-employed borrowers to one year. The lender has also...

Brokers’ economic outlook “fair” rather than “bright”

38% of brokers who work within bridging, development finance, asset finance and/or mortgages have...

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...

Latest news

Santander lowers higher LTV rates for FTBs with 95% 5-year fix at 4.72%

Santander will cut rates by up to 0.32% across its 85%-95% LTV first-time buyer...

First-time buyer solo females outpace couples

More women are planning to step onto the property ladder alone rather than with...

Melton targets foreign national borrowers with new five-year fixes

Melton Building Society is launching a dedicated foreign nationals mortgage range, aimed at borrowers...

North West leads HMO market share as yields edge below 10%

The North West has the highest proportion of HMOs in the UK at 17.9%,...

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