News

Fleet Mortgages returns with full product range

Fleet Mortgages has announced its return to the mortgage market with a full product range...

Buy-to-let remortgage transaction levels set to fall

Paragon has claimed that higher tax costs will lead to a lower level of...

TMA expands equity release panel

TMA Club has added lifetime mortgage provider, OneFamily, to its equity release panel. Members of...

Aspen unveils Finish & Exit bridging deal

Aspen Bridging has launched its new Finish & Exit bridge product. It is available up...

One in three home movers are now ‘last-time buyers’

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) has reported that almost 200,000 owner occupier housing...

Uinsure unveils graduate academy

Uinsure has launched a graduate academy, following on from signing the Women in Finance...

Brightstar Financial partners with When You Move for conveyancing service

Brightstar Financial has launched a new conveyancing service for brokers with When You Move. The...

Kensington appoints three new ADMs

Kensington Mortgages has announced the appointment of three new account development managers (ADMs). Working for...

Money and Pensions Service officially launched

The Money and Pensions Service has launched with a mission to improve the nation’s...

LendInvest added to SimplyBiz Mortgages panel

LendInvest has joined SimplyBiz Mortgages’ lender panel. LendInvest offers buy-to-let mortgages to professional landlords on...

London rental growth picking up once again

Landbay's latest Rental Index has revealed that the average rent for a property in...

Pepper Money revises sales structure

Pepper Money has refreshed its sSales regions and team structure with the aim to...

Vida intermediary competition to ‘fly’ Concorde

Vida Homeloans is to hold an event for mortgage intermediaries at an air museum,...

Paymentshield offers client guide to moving home

Paymentshield has published a free resource for advisers to provide their clients: the Ultimate...

COMMENT

A steadier second half of 2026 in sight?

The first half of 2026 has been a reminder that the mortgage market does not operate in isolation. While domestic economic conditions have remained...

How brokers can secure better client outcomes in a volatile market

Experience has always counted in the mortgage market. Brokers who worked through the financial crisis, the Covid pandemic, the Liz Truss mini-Budget and cost-of-living...

Housing reform needs a thriving private rental sector, not just a thriving sales and purchase market

One of the most encouraging developments over recent weeks has been the renewed focus on improving the homebuying and selling process. The Government's plans to...

The economics of developing the next generation of advisers

Over the past couple of decades, I have worked alongside literally thousands of AR and DA firms, from businesses employing one or two advisers...

Is Andy Burnham the New Messiah or just Starmer with better eyebrows?

What a damning indictment of Labour that Andy Burnham appears to be strolling towards the leadership in what looks less like a contest and...

Latest news

Second charge mortgage lending volumes dip for first time in more than a year

New business volumes in the second charge mortgage market fell by 1% in May,...

Building Societies Association signs Mortgage Industry Mental Health Charter

The Building Societies Association has become the latest organisation to sign the Mortgage Industry...

Sprive urges first-time buyers to plan ahead as Leeds launches 2% deposit mortgage

Sprive has welcomed Leeds Building Society's new 98% loan-to-value mortgage but says borrowers should...

Leeds launches 98% LTV mortgage aimed at widening access for first-time buyers

Leeds Building Society has introduced a new 98% loan-to-value mortgage designed to help more...

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