Mortgages

Duo joins Tenet board

The Tenet Group has announced that two existing directors have been appointed to its...

Why 2015 gave us food for thought

How might we describe the 2015 mortgage market when we come to look back...

Mortgage Brain sees 23% uplift in broker attendance

Mortgage Brain's 2015 series of Mortgage Vision events, held during October and November, saw a...

The Hinckley & Rugby offers £150 cashback

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is marking its 150th year in business by giving...

Further curb on buy-to-let signalled

George Osborne has given the go-ahead for the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee to restrict...

Kensington unveils new intermediary website

Kensington has launched its new website for intermediaries, following broker feedback. The lender says it...

OneSavings Bank hires sales chief

OneSavings Bank has announced the appointment of Adrian Moloney as its new sales director...

23% rise in year-on-year gross mortgage lending

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £19.9 billion...

Rise in brokered remortgage volumes

31% of borrowers who remortgaged in November, did so to increase the size of...

New two-year fixes from Accord Buy to Let

Accord Buy to Let has unveiled a range of short-term fixed rate mortgages for...

Together appoints group valuations manager

Andrew Murdoch has joined specialist lender Together as group valuations manager, following 12 years with...

TSB raises rates on pair of deals

TSB has made rate adjustments to two residential mortgages available through brokers.  The bank’s five-year fixed...

FHL revamps BTL and adds new limited company option

Foundation Home Loans (FHL) has announced plans to simplify its buy-to-let product range. It is...

Positive move for inflation “likely to be short-lived”

The latest inflation figure has shown a slight uptick in prices from -0.1% in...

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...

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Nationwide completes first live digital mortgage deeds with Veyco technology

Nationwide Building Society has become the first UK lender to complete live mortgage transactions...

CIExpert adds Royal London to income protection insight zone

Royal London has become the latest insurer to join CIExpert’s Income Protection Insight Zone,...

First-time buyers ‘closer than they think’ to owning a home

Most wannabe first-time buyers may be far closer to homeownership than they realise according...

FTBs handed boost as high-LTV mortgage choice hits record

First-time buyers and borrowers with small deposits are entering 2026 with more mortgage choice...

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