News

Market Harborough Building Society joins IMLA

Market Harborough Building Society has joined the Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) as a...

Advise Wise launches new cost of borrowing calculator

Later life lending sourcing platform Advise Wise has added a new Cost of Borrowing...

South Africa’s biggest mortgage broker backs The Mortgage Brain

The BetterHome Group, South Africa’s largest mortgage broker, has taken a 25% stake in...

Cumberland cuts rates on core holiday let products

Cumberland Building Society has reduced rates by 0.20% on its core holiday let range...

HSBC UK launches contest to help small firms raise their profile

New findings from HSBC UK suggest visibility remains a significant barrier to growth for...

Family Building Society expands borrowing capacity with revised affordability model

Family Building Society has increased borrowing power for owner occupier mortgages by up to...

LeadCrowd launches discounted lead marketplace for brokers

LeadCrowd has expanded its platform with the launch of a new marketplace selling discounted...

Vickers Young joins Stonebridge as firm pursues long-term expansion

Mortgage and protection firm Vickers Young has joined the Stonebridge network as it accelerates...

Finova warns specialist buy-to-let demand risks being held back by gaps in lender support

New analysis from Finova suggests that, despite strong margins and lower perceived risk, specialist...

AMI Protection Viewpoint 2025: Reigniting the protection journey

Making protection relevant and keeping customers engaged is a vital part of the advice...

Mortgage demand softens as households shift to savings

Mortgage borrowing slowed in October as UK households retrenched and businesses sharply cut back...

Pivotal Group strengthens its new build ambitions with acquisition of Xact Mortgages

Pivotal Growth has acquired Solihull based Xact Mortgages, a move that will broaden the...

The Cumberland widens mortgage access for self-employed borrowers

The Cumberland Building Society has expanded its support for self-employed borrowers, aiming to remove...

Together appoints Mike Flynn as new non-executive director

Together has appointed Mike Flynn to its board as non-executive director, strengthening the specialist...
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COMMENT

Comment

The fall in BTL company formations isn’t the whole story

It is often the case with housing and mortgage market data that the headline figure attracts most of the attention, while some of the...

Buy-to-let has matured as a market

Buy-to-let turned 30 last week, and it's a good moment for some much-needed positivity around this market. Whatever the narrative around buy-to-let has been at...

Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

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