Self-employed

Hinckley & Rugby unveils new Income Flex deals with 5.5x LTI

Hinckley & Rugby for Intermediaries has launched three new products under its Income Flex...

Just Mortgages to host recruitment event for self-employed adviser prospects

Just Mortgages is hosting an exclusive event in July aimed at mortgage advisers considering...

Self-employment: A career not a complication

There’s a persistent myth in the market that self-employed borrowers are a high-risk, hard-to-place...

Beyond the payslip: the importance of rethinking borrower profiles

In our market, the term ‘non-standard borrower is often used to describe applicants whose...

Getting to know you: Darren Deacon, Family Building Society

Name: Darren Deacon Age: 52 Location: Home based, Leicestershire. Head office, Epsom Qualification Year: Started in banking in August 1989 Firm: Family...

Buy-to-let activity plunges as self-employed and first-time buyer demand surges

The UK mortgage market is undergoing a period of sharp contrasts, according to the...

Q&A: Chris Blewitt, Darlington Building Society

Mortgage Soup fires the questions at Chris Blewitt, head of mortgage distribution at Darlington Building...

Precise launches its highest ever LTV products and slashes residential rates

Precise has made a range of improvements to its residential proposition with cheaper pricing...

Combined salary averages in 2024 mortgage searches up 9.52% YOY

Twenty7tec has reported a year-on-year rise in mortgage searches of 7.96% across 2024. The first...

Vida introduces ‘3 & Easy’ range of 97% LTV mortgages

Vida Homeloans has launched a new range of residential mortgage products at 97% loan...

Twenty7tec unveils 2025 Adviser Playbook

Twenty7tec is providing mortgage brokers with insight into when they are most busy and...

November mortgage market searches down across the board

Twenty7tec has unveiled the latest statistics for the UK mortgage market in November 2024,...

Atom bank rescues borrower with five-day mortgage turnaround

Atom bank has saved a transaction from collapse after providing a residential mortgage within...

SMEs expect difficulties in securing a mortgage

72% of business owners believe self-employment makes it harder to get a mortgage according...
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Economy

What the agents say: 2026 housing market predictions

Next year should be a year of steady progress for the housing market. After a challenging 2025 where we saw little to no house...

Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market

When Graham McClelland, the youthful and quietly intense chief executive of Gen H, arrived at the City of London office of the fast-growing mortgage...

Younger consumers are ready for protection. So why aren’t we reaching them?

For years, the protection market has assumed that younger adults are less engaged with financial risk planning. Yet the latest findings from Bruised Britain...

The buy-to-let market continues to defy expectations

Perception and reality are often mistaken for one another. That is especially true in the buy-to-let market, where sentiment frequently diverges from what is...

Advisers are missing a clear chance to help clients with survey advice

For years, advisers have often seen surveys as something outside their core work. Some did not know enough about them. Some were unsure how...

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Regulation

FCA outlines reforms aimed at broadening access to mortgages

The Financial Conduct Authority has set out plans to reshape the mortgage market, with...
House prices

Market set for Boxing Day rebound as prices tipped to rise in 2026

House prices ended 2025 lower than a year earlier after an unusually subdued second...
News

Growth in mortgage lending forecast to continue despite tighter affordability

UK Finance has released its latest Mortgage Market Forecast for 2026 and 2027, projecting...
Regulation

Lenders divided on whether regulatory scrutiny will ease in 2026

Lenders are split on whether regulatory scrutiny will ease in 2026, new research from...

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