Trackers

Landlords increasingly opting for longer term fixed rates

Intermediaries are writing more mortgage business with longer-term initial rates, Paragon Mortgages has claimed. The results...

BM Solutions cuts two, three and five year rates

BM Solutions has reduced rates across its two, three, and five year buy-to-let and...

New Barclays deals include 1.85% two-year fix

Barclays has introduced a new fee free 1.85% two-year fixed at 60% LTV and...

Rates continued to fall over past six months

There has been a widespread drop in mortgage rates for all main product types...

Tesco Bank cuts mortgage rates

Tesco Bank has reduced the mortgage rate on a number of products by up to...

New 1.09% tracker from Halifax Intermediaries

Halifax Intermediaries has launched a new range of two and five-year products and has...

New deals from Metro Bank

Metro Bank has revamped its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges. For residential mortgages under £1.5 million, the...

Nationwide cuts Loyalty Rate trackers

The Nationwide Building Society has cut selected two-year tracker rates by up to 0.25 percentage points for existing...

SFI changes mortgage pricing

Santander for Intermediaries (SFI) is making increases to a small number of products. The changes...

NatWest IS to make widespread rate cuts

NatWest Intermediary Solutions is making rate reductions across the vast majority of its residential mortgage range...

The Yorkshire cuts rate on first-time buyer deal

The Yorkshire Building Society is cutting rates on its two-year fixed rate mortgage at...

New products, reduced rates and fees from Kent Reliance

Kent Reliance has overhauled its mortgage range. It has launched new five-year fixed rate products,...

First distributor for Foundation Home Loans revealed

Connect Mortgage Club (CMC) has added Foundation Home Loans (FHL) to its panel of...

Deflation could mean windfall for tracker borrowers

The announcement yesterday by the director general of the Bank of England Mark Carney...
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COMMENT

Specialist

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers and administrators go on holiday. Specialist lending cases, which have...

Every rate shock is becoming a test of the modern mortgage business

Halifax, Barclays and HSBC increased selected mortgage rates by up to 0.20% this week, effective 21 July. Halifax removed its sub-4% deals entirely. Barclays'...

Your next client is probably more complicated than your last one

There's a shift happening in the mortgage market that most small firms aren't ready for. It's not about rates. It's not about the political...

Why post-contract variation is becoming the mortgage market’s next battleground

For much of the past decade, mortgage technology investment has focused on origination and with good reason. Faster decisions in principle, automated affordability assessments,...

Will we look back at Q2 as the most stable quarter of 2026?

The first half of 2026 has reminded us how quickly sentiment can change within the mortgage and housing markets. After a fairly stable and promising...

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Specialist

No holidays: advice firms need a plan for a busy August

Every summer, the same quiet risk runs through the intermediary market. Advisers, case managers...
Homebuying reform

OPDA welcomes Rayner’s return to housing brief

The Open Property Data Association has welcomed Angela Rayner’s return as housing secretary and...
Buy-to-let

UTB widens buy-to-let criteria

United Trust Bank Mortgages has introduced a package of buy-to-let criteria changes aimed at...
Technology

JammJar appoints Kieren Pace to lead customer support

Mortgage technology provider JammJar has appointed Kieren Pace as customer success manager as six...

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