Mortgage Strategy’s Top 10 Stories: 12 Oct to 16 Oct - Mortgage Strategy

This week’s top headlines: Halifax updates intermediary site to make apps easier and NatWest becomes latest lender to cuts rates . Explore these and other major industry updates below: Halifax updates intermediary site to make apps easier Halifax Intermediaries has upgraded its online mortgage application platform, introducing drag-and-drop document uploads, multiple-file uploading and fewer data fields for self-employed applications to save brokers time. The changes follow broker feedback and precede the lender’s planned rebrand to Lloyds Intermediaries in early 2027, with no action required from brokers and existing login details remaining unchanged.