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The Coventry cuts mortgage pricing as swap rates ease

Coventry for intermediaries has announced a reduction in selected fixed mortgage rates, responding to...

Rosemount Financial Solutions launches new portal

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has unveiled a new website and adviser portal as part...

Redwood Bank advances digital transformation with finova servicing upgrade

Redwood Bank has taken the first step in a renewed technology strategy with the...

Chancellor to meet City leaders for crisis talks on US tariffs

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will hold urgent talks with leading City executives this week...

Equity Release Group expands advisory team with trio of new hires

Equity Release Group has strengthened its advisory business, Equity Release Supermarket, with the appointment...

Nationwide lowers income threshold for Helping Hand

Nationwide Building Society has reduced the minimum income requirement for sole applicants using its...

Redwood Bank appoints non-executive director

Redwood Bank has appointed Tina Kokkinos to its board as an independent non-executive director...

Catalyst joins Brilliant Solutions lender panel

Specialist lender Catalyst Property Finance has been added to the lender panel of Brilliant...

The Mortgage Works trims buy-to-let rates

The Mortgage Works (TMW), the buy-to-let arm of Nationwide Building Society, has announced a...

Building societies drive UK mortgage growth as banks lag behind

Building societies have accounted for 89% of UK mortgage market growth so far in...

Barclays offers zero deposit mortgage for Right to Buy applicants

Barclays will no longer require a deposit from borrowers purchasing a home under the...

Gen H reduces all rates up to and including 80% by up to 20 bps

Gen H has made sweeping rate cuts on all products up to and including...

LiveMore makes rate reductions and criteria enhancements across full later life lending ranges

LiveMore has made pricing and criteria changes across its Standard, Retirement Interest Only (RIO)...

Pepper Money reduces rates across entire range

Pepper Money has cut rates across its entire product range, with reductions of up...

COMMENT

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...

Approvals hit a 2.5-year low: When broker value gets proven – or missed

Net mortgage approvals dropped to 56,200 in May – the lowest since December 2023 - down from 66,000 the month before. Net borrowing fell from...

Removing friction from the homebuying journey

One thing I keep hearing from our advisers is how much more work each case now generates, largely because so much of it involves...

Build, baby, build? Well we will need to fund more than the usual suspects

There was a noticeable sense of optimism at UKREiiF this year. That may sound surprising given the economic headwinds of recent years, but the...

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market riding high

Innovation in the lifetime mortgage market has created real value for customers – there’s no excuse to ignore it. When a UK borrower reaches 55,...

Latest news

Barclays latest lender to cut rates

Barclays is the latest lender to lower its mortgage rates, reducing selected residential products...

Landbay launches product transfer products

Buy-to-let lender, Landbay, has launched five new Product Transfer (PT) tracker products within its...

Brokers hesitant to recommend interest-only for FTBs, says Gen H

Nearly half of the UK’s top 100 first-time buyer brokerages wrote no interest-only business...

Coventry and Accord both cut BTL rates 

Coventry for Intermediaries and Accord Mortgages have both reduced rates across their buy-to-let ranges. Coventry’s...

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