Nationwide has announced increases to its fixed and tracker mortgage rates as well as changes to its BMR and SMR following the recent Bank Rate increase.

Just Mortgages has doubled its number of area directors to 22, from 11 at the start of 2021.

Positive Lending has promoted David Coleman to the position of head of sales.

Twenty7Tec has released its monthly findings from the UK mortgage market for December, showing that product availability is up by 74.2% compared to December 2020.

Commercial property finance lender, JMT Finance, has added its criteria to the Knowledge Bank platform.

Landbay has announced a complete product refresh to simplify its buy-to-let range and has added new build homes into its green criteria.

Paragon has launched a new range of switch and further advance products for portfolio and non-portfolio landlords.

Mansfield Building Society has appointed Tom Molloy as its intermediary sales manager following the departure of Andy Alvarez.

Accord Mortgages is making changes to its buy-to-let mortgage range later this week, with selected rate reductions and increases.

An expected Bank of England base rate increase fuelled remortgage activity in November, according to the latest LMS report.