News

Strong employee demand for group IP

Legal & General has found that employers overestimate the cost of Group Income Protection...

The Marsden partners with Equity Release Club

Equity Release Club has announced a new relationship with the Marsden Building Society. The mutual’s...

CML: 2016 highest gross lending total since 2008

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has estimated that gross mortgage lending totalled £20.4...

VitalityLife unveils Vitality Nurse and Wellness Optimiser

VitalityLife has announced two new developments for the protection market: Vitality Nurse and Wellness...

Huge rise in house prices near Crossrail stations

Average house prices  near stations along Crossrail have increased dramatically since the South East...

Millennials more open to P2P than older generation

Millennials are four times more likely to have money invested in peer to peer...

Strong 12 months for Fleet Mortgages

Fleet Mortgages has revealed that in its second full year of lending it lent over...

2017 ‘year of the underwriter’

Borro believes 2017 will see larger lenders of all types step back from a reliance...

RBS sets aside another $4bn for RMBS litigation

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is taking of a further £3.1bn ($3.8bn) provision in...

Leeds members donate over £118k to charity

Charity campaigns supported by Leeds Building Society members raised more than £118,000 for good...

FCA reveals GI value pilot data

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the first set of data in its general...

John Wheeler teams up with Paul Mumford again

John Wheeler has joined Century Capital as its new head of business development at Century Capital. Wheeler has...

HSBC announces more branch closures

HSBC is to shut another 62 bank branches the year.  The decision is likely to lead to...

Atom Bank extends mortgage offering

Atom Bank has added 80% LTV and 85% LTV rates to its mortgage range. The two LTV bands...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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