Mortgages

Precise reduces residential rates and adds new fee options

Precise has revised its residential product range and reduced rates across the 75% and...

Atom bank cuts Near Prime & Prime rates

Atom bank has lowered reduced rates across both its Prime and Near Prime products. Rates...

Pepper Money offers limited edition remortgage deal

Pepper Money has unveiled a Limited Edition remortgage-only offer, which contains no upfront fee. It...

Simple Financial Planning partners with Sikoia

Sikoia has announced a new partnership with brokerage Simple Financial Planning to improve broker...

Mortgage approvals rise in December as borrowing rebounds

Net mortgage approvals for house purchases slightly increased to 66,500 in December, compared to...

Bank of England cautions against relaxing mortgage lending limits

The Bank of England (BoE) has warned that easing mortgage lending restrictions could lead...

Virgin Money unveils new residential and buy-to-let products

Virgin Money is introducing a range of new products on Thursday 30 January, providing...

Advisers’ top concerns are rising costs and mortgage market instability

A nationwide survey of financial advisers, conducted by The Exeter, has discovered their main...

UTB doubles maximum loan size to £2m

United Trust Bank Mortgages has doubled its maximum residential first charge mortgage loan size...

Salary gains not being translated into larger deposits

Twenty7Tec has revealed that over the past few years, while salaries have increased, the...

All eyes are on Threadneedle Street as Nationwide increases fixed rates up to 0.15%

Nationwide has yielded to market pressures and joined its high-street counterparts in raising selected...

MPowered Mortgages using digital assistant to give criteria answers to brokers

MPowered Mortgages has unveiled a voice-activated digital assistant to provide brokers with answers in...

Housing affordability still stretched despite recent wage growth

Housing affordability remains stretched by historic standards despite recent earnings growth marginally outpacing house...

Stonebridge reports further improvement in mortgage affordability

November saw mortgage affordability improve for the second consecutive month, according to new analysis...

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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