Mortgages

The Leeds reduces rate on two-year fix

The Leeds Building Society has cut the rate on its two-year fixed rate mortgage...

Rise in gross mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending last month rose to £12.7 billion, according to estimates from the...

Virgin Money cuts a number of Northern Rock rates

Virgin Money has cut interest rates across a selection of its Northern Rock residential...

Barclays to cut rates tomorrow

Barclays is cutting a number of mortgage rates by up to 0.30 percentage points...

Funding for Lending likely to have implications for MPC voting

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously in favour of both...

Mortgage activity bounces back

Mortgage activity was back up in July, according to the latest National Mortgage Index...

The Cambridge raises SVR

The Cambridge Building Society has increased its Standard Variable Rate (SVR) on both...

The Leeds helps FTBs with new shared ownership offering

Leeds Building Society has unveiled a new shared ownership mortgage product aimed at helping...

Skipton makes rate cuts

Skipton Building Society has made changes to a number of its two, three and...

New longer-term fixes from the Manchester

The Manchester Building Society has added a residential product and two buy-to-let long term...

First-time buyer activity “showing signs of resilience”

First-time buyer activity assisted in propping up lending for house purchase in June, according...

Virgin Money offers first exclusives via Openwork

Openwork has launched a range of exclusive fixed rate products from Virgin Money. The new...

95% mortgages for Darlington scheme buyers

Darlington Building Society and Tees Valley Housing have joined forces to provide a 95%...

Post Office cuts rates

The Post Office is reducing its rates by up to 0.40 percentage points on...

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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