Mortgages

First direct cuts mortgage rates

First direct has cut the rates on 11 of its offset and repayment mortgages by up to...

Magellan Homeloans claims positive broker reaction

Magellan Homeloans says it has received significant interest from brokers since its launch a...

Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks unveil free free range

Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks have unveiled a range of fee free mortgages offers for...

Metro Bank cuts mortgage rates

Metro Bank has cut mortgage rates across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage range. Prices...

Lowest ever fixes from Nationwide

Nationwide has cut all two-year fixed rates available up to 70% loan to value...

Improving fortunes for ‘second steppers’

Home affordability for so-called 'second steppers'  has improved in the past year as a...

HSBC makes first-time buyer ‘pledge’

HSBC has launched ‘First for First-Time Buyers', pledging that its range of 90% LTV...

New deals from Coventry Intermediaries

Coventry Intermediaries has launched a range including two, three and five-year fixed rates starting from...

Mutual lending at highest levels since January 2010

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders was £4.0 billion in...

Kensington improves buy-to-let proposition

Kensington has revamped its buy-to-let mortgage range, reducing rates by up to 0.50 percentage points...

New remortgage products from BM Solutions

BM Solutions has unveiled two new fixed rate products for remortgage customers. Buy-to-let remortgage customers...

Borrowers opting for five years of security

New research by Yorkshire Building Society suggests more borrowers are choosing to fix their...

New buy-to-let deals from Accord

Accord Buy to Let has launched a new range of five year fixed rate...

FTBs strengthen Q2 house purchase activity

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that first-time buyers accounted for 11,200...

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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