Mortgages

Advances up 34% at mutual

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has reported a rise in advances of 34% to £172 million,...

Atom Bank unveils intermediary ‘Digital Mortgages’

Atom Bank has announced the launch of residential mortgages, available through selected intermediary partners using the...

Newcastle Intermediaries moves into Help to Buy

Newcastle Intermediaries has launched Help to Buy: Equity Loan products for the first time. This includes both...

Pepper adds TBMC to distributor panel

Pepper Homeloans, which has been extending its distribution during 2016, is now including the buy-to-let specialist, TBMC,...

Confidence returning as landlords react to changes

The latest Buy to Let Britain report from Kent Reliance has revealed that landlord confidence...

£1bn in mortgages reached by Skipton International

Skipton International has reached £1 billion of mortgage loans across the Channel Islands and...

The Chelsea launches 1.83% four-year fix

The Chelsea Building Society has unveiled what Moneyfacts has said is a market-leading four-year...

Computershare in “futureproofed” platform claim

Computershare says its new online mortgage customer service platform is “futureproofed” and ready to grow with...

Remember: the BTL market isn’t dead

At the moment it feels very easy to talk about the interventionist measures in...

Coventry for Intermediaries announces new BTL stress rates

Coventry for Intermediaries is increasing its buy-to-let reference rate to 5.5% on loans with...

New two-year deals from the Monmouthshire

The Monmouthshire Building Society has unveiled a new range of two-year purchase and remortgage products. The...

Ingard partners with Bluestone Mortgages

Ingard has announced the addition of Bluestone Mortgages to its panel of lenders. The...

The Skipton becomes an internal ratings based lender

The Skipton Building Society has been awarded Internal Ratings Based (IRB) status. The Skipton is one...

Michael Coogan joins Mortgages4Life board

New lender Mortgages4Life has appointed Michael Coogan as its independent chairman in anticipation of...

COMMENT

Advisers need an answer for evolving landlords

It’s a tough time to be a landlord. The succession of changes to tax and regulation made in recent years - with the Renters’...

AI doesn’t remove bias. It gives us the chance to manage it

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence has always been objectivity. Machines, unlike people, do not have bad days. They do not favour...

Commonhold reform: Devil in the detail

The government's language on leasehold reform remains forthright. Ministers speak of, “bringing the feudal leasehold system to an end,” of returning power to homeowners...

Managing cashflow and risk in today’s turbulent market

Over the past decade buy-to-let landlords have become accustomed to operating in a market where it can often feel like change is the only...

Is there such thing as a ‘typical borrower’ anymore?

What is a typical borrower? A few decades ago, it would have been a salaried employee, single source of income and, most likely, a...

Latest news

Newcastle expands broker mortgage range with higher-LTV deals

Newcastle for Intermediaries has expanded its mortgage range with the return of higher loan-to-value...

Mortgage arrears and possessions fall in second quarter

The number of UK mortgages in arrears declined in the second quarter of 2026,...

Paragon restores Track to Fix option on buy-to-let tracker mortgages

Paragon Bank has reintroduced a feature allowing existing buy-to-let customers to move from a...

Pepper Money plans Scottish first charge mortgage launch

Pepper Money plans to launch its first charge mortgage range in Scotland in September,...

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