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Nationwide appoints new head of intermediary sales and new build

Nationwide has announced the appointment of James Briffitt as its new head of intermediary...

Shawbrook cuts buy-to-let and commercial mortgage rates

Shawbrook has announced pricing reductions across several of its buy-to-let and commercial products. The lender...

Hodge rebrands Professional mortgage range

Hodge has launched a rebranded mortgage range called Hodge Resi, along with improvements and...

Molo unveils new buy-to-let rates

Molo Finance has announced rate reductions across its buy-to-let mortgage range. These changes are designed...

Landbay issues new 75% LTV AVM buy-to-let deals

Landbay has launched a new range of two-year and five-year products, available through an...

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) partners with Six Mental Health Addiction

Rosemount Financial Solutions (IFA) has announced a new partnership with Six Mental Health Addiction...

Keystone Property Finance cuts rates by up to 15bps

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates by up to 15 basis points across its...

SortRefer introduces flexible remortgage offering

Conveyancing and legal services provider, SortRefer, has launched a new Flexible Remortgage product series. This...

MPowered Mortgages cuts fixed rates for third consecutive week

MPowered Mortgages has once again reduced rates, this time by up to 17 basis...

Hanley Economic BS unveils two new fee-free deals

Hanley Economic Building Society has launched a fee-free two-year 95% LTV fixed rate and...

Tuscan Capital funds refurbishment of historic hotel

Tuscan Capital has announced the completion of a £892k medium refurbishment funding deal which...

Canada Life partners with ELSA Next Generation

Canada Life (UK) has announced a partnership with ELSA Next Generation (ELSA), a Hertfordshire...

Equity Release Council launches retrofit lifetime mortgage guide

The Equity Release Council has published new guidance for member firms to consider when...

Consumer concerns over credit discrimination on the rise

29% of UK adults - the equivalent of 14.8 million - report that previous...

COMMENT

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...

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...

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Buy-to-let lending remains ahead of last year despite slower start to year

Buy-to-let lending increased in the first quarter of 2026 compared with a year earlier,...

Market Harborough reveals £120m Gen H mortgage portfolio acquisition

Market Harborough Building Society has acquired a £120m residential mortgage portfolio from Gen H...

UTB streamlines buy-to-let mortgage process with broker-focused operational changes

United Trust Bank has introduced a series of operational enhancements to its buy-to-let mortgage...

Home insurance price falls slow as market shows signs of turning

Home insurance premiums continued to fall during the second quarter of 2026, but the...

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