Mortgages

BBA: Housing market cooling continues

The British Bankers' Association (BBA) has revealed that the slowdown in the mortgage market...

18% rise in Paragon’s pre-tax profits

The Paragon Group has reported pre-tax profits of £122.2 million, which represents an 18.1%...

Worst October for remortgaging since recession

The number of remortgage loans last month fell by 15% to 23,505, according to...

IMLA calls for MMR review on lending into retirement

A new report from the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has warned that mortgage...

Time to act in the spirit of MMR

There have been some whisperings around the mortgage market that a number of lenders...

SMS expands lending panel

Solent Mortgage Services (SMS) has added The Mansfield Building Society to its panel of...

Metro Bank cuts two-year mortgage rates

Metro Bank has cut rates on its residential two-year fixed rate and tracker mortgages. For...

New 65% LTV deals from First Direct

First Direct has today introduced a pair of fixed rate mortgages for borrowers with...

Tesco Bank adds new fixes to mortgage range

Tesco Bank has cut the interest rate on a number of its mortgages by...

87 purchase & remo deals to be cut by NatWest IS

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is introducing rate reductions to the majority of its core intermediary range...

Mark Snape leaves Magellan

Mark Snape, managing director of lending for Magellan Homeloans, is leaving the company. Snape (pictured)...

5% month-on-month rise in gross mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending reached £19 billion in October, according to estimates by the Council...

The Skipton reduces two-year fixed rates

Skipton Building Society has cut interest rates by up to 0.56 percentage points on...

TMW changes product offering

The Mortgage Works (TMW) will be making changes to its new business and existing...

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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