Mortgages

Aldermore’s mortgage lending breaks through £1bn barrier

Aldermore has lent more than £1 billion worth of residential and commercial mortgage funding...

Platform cuts certain BTL rates

Platform has made changes to its buy-to-let range. The Co-operative Bank’s intermediary lender has...

Halifax unveils app for homebuyers

Halifax has launched a new smartphone app which it claims offers a ’one stop...

Lloyds TSB improves FTB deal

Lloyds TSB has made changes to its new fee saver mortgage for first-time buyers. ...

BoS extends stamp duty pledge

Bank of Scotland has extended of its pledge to pay half of the stamp...

Worrying insight into interest-only borrowers’ ‘strategies’

Only 23% of interest-only mortgage holders are regularly putting money away in order to...

L&G Mortgage Club links with IN Partnership

Legal & General Mortgage Club has undertaken a new strategic mortgage trading relationship with...

March rise in mutual mortgage lending

Gross mortgage lending by building societies and other mutual lenders rose 58% in March...

Another lender ends interest-only for new borrowers

The Co-operative Bank has become the latest lender to stop lending to new customers...

Nationwide offers half price fees

Nationwide Building Society has launched a half price product fee offer on its range...

Nationwide gets tough with incomplete paper applications

Nationwide is to take a tougher stance over paper applications. From 16 May, the...

Halifax entends stamp duty pledge

Halifax has extended its pledge to pay half of all homebuyers stamp duty bill...

NatWest IS unveils new products

NatWest Intermediary Solutions has introduced six new fixed rate purchase and remortgage deals to...

Skipton unveils new fixed rates

Skipton Building Society has today launched a new range of fixed rate mortgages for...

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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