News

Barclays cuts residential and Reward rates

Barclays has made changes to a selection of products across its existing residential and...

Keystone introduces exclusive purchase only deals

Keystone Property Finance has unveiled an exclusive purchase only product range. Pricing of the product...

Gap between buying and renting is narrowing

The latest Halifax Buying vs. Renting Review has found that the gap between the...

New NED for FCA board

Richard Lloyd has been appointed as a non-executive director to the board of the...

DPR completes API integration with AiR Sourcing

Mortgage systems provider DPR has integrated its illustration API with the AiR Sourcing platform. The...

Buy-to-let investor jailed for contempt of court

The High Court of Justice has sentenced Robert John McKendrick to six months imprisonment...

The Hinckley & Rugby partners with Paradigm

The Hinckley & Rugby Building Society is to work with Paradigm Mortgage Services to...

Networks to host ‘open to all’ conferences

HL Partnership and MSN networks are hosting a series of eight regional conferences in...

New funding lines for Central Bridging

Central Bridging has confirmed access to what it calls new “game changing” funding lines. The...

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move appoints duo

Spicerhaart Part Exchange and Assisted Move has made two new appointments, including a new...

The Mortgage Lender cuts limited company buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Lender has cut the initial rates on its limited company buy-to-let range...

Openwork Foundation raised over £0.5m in 2018

The Openwork Foundation raised a total of £562,000 in 2018, through fundraising and community...

Spring Finance introduces new Plan 0 and offers lower rates

Spring Finance has launched a 9.65% variable rate to complement its current portfolio of second...

Newcastle Intermediaries revamps 95% LTV offering

Newcastle Intermediaries has cut rates rates on its 95% LTV products of up to...

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

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...

Uinsure secures exclusive Lloyds Bank General Insurance panel deal for advisers

Uinsure has added Lloyds Bank General Insurance to its home insurance panel in an...

Clydesdale cuts selected residential product transfer rates

Clydesdale Bank is reducing a range of residential product transfer fixed mortgage rates from...

Foundation shows how revised Property Plus criteria unlock Scottish buy-to-let purchase

Foundation has highlighted how enhancements to its Property Plus proposition helped a broker secure...

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