Mortgages

New five-year deal from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has launched a new five year fixed mortgage for first-time buyers, homemovers...

CML and BSA to work together

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has confirmed that it is partnering with the...

No parental support for nearly half of FTBs

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that nearly half of first-time buyers...

BoE’s MPC votes to keeps the status quo

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has once again help the Base...

TMW to step early repayment charges

The Mortgage Works (TMW) will apply a reducing scale of early repayment charges (ERCs)...

TFC Homeloans secures CCA permissions from regulator

TFC Homeloans has been granted full CCA permissions by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)....

Record pre-tax profits for Virgin Money

Virgin Money has posted its results for 2014, with underlying pre-tax profits rising by...

IMLA: find a permanent replacement for Help to Buy 2

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that failing to replace the Help...

1.75m at risk of interest rate shock

A financial capability charity has warned that more than 1.75m mortgaged households have never...

Kensington predicts specialist lending battle

New entrants and high street lenders will be targeting the specialist lending arena over...

Genworth partners with the Leek United BS

Staffordshire-based Leek United Building Society is joining forces with Genworth, the provider of mortgage...

Halifax cuts FTB and homeowner mortgage rates

Halifax has increased the maximum loan amounts across its Affordable Housing and New Build...

Profits up at the Ipswich

The Ipswich Building Society has posted pre-tax profits of £3.8m for the year ending...

The Nationwide to launch 2.89% 10-year fix

The Nationwide Building Society is to unveil tomorrow (4 March) the lowest 10-year fixed...

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...

Latest news

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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