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Self-employed
Vida improves criteria for contractors
Vida has unveiled a series of changes to its criteria for borrowers who are...
4 April 2022
Kent Reliance for Intermediaries introduces new residential proposition
Kent Reliance for Intermediaries has revamped its residential mortgage offering to give wider access...
3 April 2022
Brokers reveal most problematic mortgage applications
Research by broker forum, cherryplc.co.uk, has found that mortgage applications for self-employed clients and...
17 March 2022
Newcastle Intermediaries relaunches deals for newly self-employed
Newcastle Intermediaries has unveiled a new range of mortgages exclusively for self-employed applicants with...
7 March 2022
Clydesdale simplifies self-employed documentation requirements
Clydesdale Bank has reduced the documentation required to support applications from self-employed customers. The lender...
24 January 2022
Skipton reverts to pre-Covid self-employed contractor policy
Skipton Building Society is changing policy to make it easier for self-employed contractors when...
6 December 2021
Hinckley & Rugby ups maximum self-employed LTV
Hinckley & Rugby Building Society has increased the loan to value (LTV) is offers...
2 December 2021
Borrowers with variable incomes still face lower maximum loan sizes
Borrowers who have an element of variable income are being offered an average maximum...
17 November 2021
Clydesdale Bank improves self-employed contractor mortgages
Clydesdale Bank Intermediaries has improved its criteria for assessing mortgage applications from self-employed contractors. The...
30 September 2019
The Beverley improves self-employed criteria
The Beverley Building Society has made changes to its self-employed mortgage criteria, which will...
27 June 2019
Pepper revises self-employed mortgage criteria
Pepper Money has made changes to its criteria for self-employed borrowers and will now...
26 June 2018
Pepper Money unveils new criteria to tackle “interesting” cases
Pepper Money has made changes to its product range with the stated aim of making...
9 April 2018
Newcastle Intermediaries adds Help to Buy and BTL to self-employed offering
Newcastle intermediaries has extended its self employed product range to include both Help to...
28 March 2018
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COMMENT
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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...
6 February 2026
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...
5 February 2026
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...
4 February 2026
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...
4 February 2026
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...
3 February 2026
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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...
6 February 2026
Technology
Mortgage Advice Bureau completes acquisition of Dashly
Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) has completed the acquisition of technology and data company Dashly,...
6 February 2026
Building Societies
The Buckinghamshire lowers rates across key ranges
Buckinghamshire Building Society has cut rates across a wide spread of residential and buy-to-let...
6 February 2026
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FCA finds protection market delivering good outcomes, says TPFG
The Property Franchise Group PLC (TPFG) has responded to the publication of the Financial...
6 February 2026
PROFILES
Louisa Sedgwick on Paragon and the future of buy-to-let
Graham McClelland on Britain’s broken mortgage market
Gareth Lewis on leading MT Finance through a changing landscape