Specialist

Together appoints former Leeds BS chief as non-executive director

Specialist lender Together has appointed former Leeds Building Society chief executive Richard Fearon as...

Norton Home Loans backs self-employed adverse borrower in Right to Buy purchase

Norton Home Loans has completed a £39,000 mortgage for a self-employed chef purchasing their...

West One links with shared ownership specialist to tighten legal process

West One has agreed a partnership with Shared Direction Conveyancing as it looks to...

Second charge lending tops £2.14bn

The UK second charge mortgage market surpassed £2.14bn in new lending during 2025 with...

23% of would-be homeowners stay in jobs they dislike to secure a mortgage

Almost one in four aspiring homeowners have remained in roles they dislike in order...

Countrywide Surveying Services renews exclusive referral tie-up with Capital Private Finance

Countrywide Surveying Services (CSS) has renewed its partnership with Capital Private Finance under an...

Norton streamlines broker submissions with online DIP and ONS-based affordability model

Norton Home Loans has introduced an online decision-in-principle and a new two-tier affordability assessment...

Mercantile Trust joins Twenty7tec’s sourcing panel to widen specialist access

Twenty7tec has added Mercantile Trust to its lender panel within RESEARCH, extending the range...

Jupp: Brightstar will keep pushing specialist lending boundaries

Brightstar Group chief executive Rob Jupp has pledged to keep “pushing” the specialist lending...

What does the year hold for specialist first charge residential mortgages?

A few months into 2026, it is already clear that many borrowers continue to...

Mutual sector ambition needs tech-driven scale

The Government’s commitment to doubling the size of the mutual sector has been welcomed...

Vida extends foreign national criteria across buy-to-let range

Vida Homeloans has widened its foreign national lending criteria across its entire buy-to-let range,...

Chetwood Bank hires Simon Parish as south east business development manager

Chetwood Bank has appointed Simon Parish as business development manager for the South East,...

Together grows loan book to £8.1bn as quarterly profits rise

Together Financial Services Limited has reported further loan book growth and a rise in...

COMMENT

Mutual strength and the broker partnership

The mutual sector has always been associated with community purpose, local branches and a member-first approach that feels a little different to the wider...

First-time, accidental or professional? How the landlord profile is shifting in 2026

One of the most common misconceptions that people have about the buy-to-let market is that landlords are a single, uniform group. The reality is...

Complexity is rising and broker enablement has never mattered more

 For many years, success in the mortgage market was built off efficiency. If a broker understood the mainstream lending landscape, packaged cases well and kept...

Industry pushes to build next generation of home valuers

According to RICS, the average qualified surveyor is in their mid-fifties. Couple this with new entrant numbers failing to keep pace with retirements, and...

Supply side continues to drive the change agenda

Regulatory change is no longer something firms respond to periodically. It is now a permanent feature of the landscape. Whether it is capital treatment...

Latest news

The Vernon hires internal BDM to expand intermediary reach

Vernon Building Society has appointed Damien Sabbaghe as intermediary business development manager as it...

Coventry trims first-time buyer and limited company buy-to-let rates

Coventry for intermediaries has cut selected mortgage rates for first-time buyers and limited company...

TRM adds to PMI team with supervision & development manager hire

The Right Mortgage & Protection Network has appointed Gemma Penkethman as PMI supervision &...

Rental yields rise across England and Wales as buy-to-let market enters more volatile period

Rental yields increased annually in every region of England and Wales in the first...

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