Mortgages

Peter Curran joins Countrywide plc

Countrywide plc has appointed Peter Curran to its financial services division, effective from 1...

Mortgage Brain appoints new national account manager

Mortgage Brain has appointed Chris Brown as one of its new national account managers. ...

New Virgin Money exclusives for L&G

Legal & General Mortgage Club and Virgin Money have launched an exclusive range of...

Highest ever asking price of £286,133, says Rightmove

Rightmove has reported that the price of property coming to market has hit a...

‘Mortgage Freedom Day’ pushed back eight days

Halifax said last Saturday (18 April) was this year’s UK Mortgage Freedom Day. It is calculated...

It’s the supply, stupid

At the Council of Mortgage Lenders' (CML) annual lunch on Friday 17 April, the...

Why the network model is not dead

Perhaps understandably there has been a lot of focus (once again) on the future...

HSBC launches sub-1.99% five-year fix

HSBC is launching a five-year fix below 2% on Monday 20 April. It is available at...

Lloyds revamps product range

Lloyds Bank has announced changes to its mortgage product range. For homemovers, 90% LTV two...

Keystone unveils online illustration for Solutions range

Keystone has introduced a service whereby brokers wanting to give their landlord clients a...

New deals and rate cuts from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has launched a new two-year fixed product for home movers, as well...

Paradigm on the road to Yorkshire

In April, Paradigm Mortgage Services, the mortgage services proposition, will be attending and hosting...

HSBC admits US mortgage data breach

HSBC has told the Attorney General in the US state of New Hampshire that...

Stonebridge sees year-on-year completion rise

Stonebridge Group has reported a year-on-year increase in mortgage completion cases for the first...

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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