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Charles Street named patron lender of NACFB

Specialist lender Charles Street has been appointed as an official patron lender of the...

L&C says its advice saved customers more than £60m in 2025

L&C Mortgages, the UK’s largest fee-free mortgage broker, has calculated that it saved customers...

New-build demand eases in final quarter as market softens

Analysis from Property Inspect suggests that fewer than one in five new-build properties were...

The Darlington lifts limited company buy-to-let LTV to 80%

Darlington Building Society has increased the maximum loan-to-value across its limited company buy-to-let range,...

Hope Capital Property Finance posts sharp rise in activity heading into new year

Hope Capital Property Finance has entered the new year reporting a marked uplift in...

Gen H cuts mortgage rates by up to 20bps across core range

Gen H has announced a series of mortgage rate cuts across the majority of...

HSBC UK trims buy-to-let stress rates in bid to ease landlord affordability

HSBC UK has reduced its buy-to-let affordability stress rates for domestic landlords, a move...

Mortgage borrowing edges higher as remortgaging activity picks up

Net mortgage lending rose in November, supported by a further increase in remortgaging approvals,...

Foundation Home Loans appoints Alan Davison as chief commercial officer

Foundation Home Loans has named Alan Davison as its new chief commercial officer, strengthening...

Paradigm outlines lender thinking for 2026 in special edition insight videos

Paradigm has released a new set of short videos examining how senior lenders expect...

LendInvest rolls out incentivised buy-to-let range

LendInvest Mortgages has begun 2026 by launching a new set of incentivised buy-to-let products...

Afin Bank announces high net worth and diaspora strategy lead

Afin Bank has promoted Tippie Malgwi to head of high net worth and diaspora...

First-time buyer numbers set to reach second-highest level in a decade

The number of people buying their first home is expected to rise sharply this...

The Leeds trims mortgage rates for new year

Leeds Building Society has cut mortgage rates by up to 0.26% across a wide...

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Working up those income streams

Some might say the UK labour market has lost some of its confidence. Unemployment is rising, job moves have slowed, and many employers are...

Ignore the Gen Z worker stereotypes – the future is bright

The office fridge. Full of 12 types of milk, none derived from cows, and four on the work top, at room temperature. As for...

Reframe Cancer 2026 trends: prevention to take centre stage

This year is already shaping up to be one when prevention is taking centre stage. The Government recently announced the expansion of its WorkWell...

The mortgage protection gap advisers can’t ignore

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) consumer research findings published late last year, offered an insight into what the protection industry can expect from the...

Cashback, remortgages and adviser opportunity in 2026

A recent flood of mortgage products into the market offering cashback prove it has moved from the margins of the remortgage market to the...

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The Coventry cuts selected intermediary residential fixed rates

Coventry for intermediaries has reduced a number of residential fixed-rate products for new and...

Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly

Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...

The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges

Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...

FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG

The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...

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