Mortgages

Fall in popularity of two-year buy-to-let fixes

Paragon Mortgages has revealed that in the second quarter there was a 4% reduction...

RBS & NatWest fined for mortgage sale failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest...

BBA: £11bn in gross mortgage borrowing

Gross mortgage borrowing in July totalled £10.9 billion, according to the British Bankers' Association...

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks unveil new range

Today has seen the launch of a new range of mortgages from Clydesdale and...

Virgin Money announces rate reductions

Virgin Money has made reductions to selected fixed rate and tracker products within its buy-to-let...

Barclays makes a number of rate cuts

Barclays has launched new and reduced mortgage rates by up to 0.20 percentage points...

Correctly packagers apps more vital than ever

One of the consequences of the introduction of new MMR requirements is that brokers...

High LTV lending recovering

Last month represented the strongest July for house purchase lending since the financial crisis,...

Magellan partners with Payplan

Specialist credit repair lender Magellan Homeloans is working with Payplan Financial Services (PFS) to...

New five-year deals from the Leeds

The Leeds Building Society is adding two new five-year fixed rate mortgages tomorrow (14...

CML to run ideas competition

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) is inviting anyone with constructive ideas to improve...

Two new five-year fixes from Virgin Money

Virgin Money has launched two new products for remortgage customers, which have no product...

NatWest IS makes rate cuts

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is introducing a number of rate reductions of between 10-40bps on residential...

CML: MMR having “gentle dampener” effect

New data published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) on the characteristics of...

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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