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Together celebrates best ever month for lending

Together has revealed that it completed £105 million new lending in March 2016, with...

Mortgages for Business celebrates office move

Over 100 guests attended an office warming party hosted by Mortgages for Business last...

House prices boosted by BTL rush

Rightmove has revealed that the average price of property coming to market up in...

Barnard and Spinks join Pepper

Rob Barnard and Richard Spinks have joined specialist lender Pepper Homeloans. Barnard joins as sales...

Complete FS to distribute Kensington’s products

Kensington is now on the lending panel of Complete FS, the South Coast based...

Lessons learned from the Stamp Duty deadline

Now that we have a little bit of distance between us and last month’s...

Pensioner landlords relying on BTL

72% of pensioners who have an investment property said they would struggle to make...

TSB cuts BTL and residential rates

TSB is reducing rates on a range of buy-to-let and residential mortgages. Landlords will benefit...

E.surv: first-time buyers finding their feet again

Home lending in 2016 saw its best opening quarter for nine years, according to...

New deals from Mortgage Trust

Mortgage Trust has launched a new range of products which includes two five year...

Over 1,000 attendees at ARLA conference

The Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA) held its annual ARLA Conference 2016 on...

Q1 rise in HMO purchases

The latest Complex buy-to-let Index from Mortgages for Business has found that the introduction...

Major rises in purchase and remortgage activity

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has revealed that during February, home-owners borrowed £8.7bn...

Network extends arrangement with specialist distributor

The Right Mortgage network (TRM) has extended its panel partnership agreement with Crystal Specialist...

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Network recruitment called. The 1970s want their strategy back

I spend a lot of my time looking at growth. What does it cost? Is it sustainable? And are we creating value, or just...

Bank Rate holds again, but November is now firmly in focus

There may well have been a collective sigh of relief across the mortgage market when the Bank of England announced another Bank Base Rate...

Buy-to-let at 30: the mortgage that changed Britain’s housing market

John Heron helped create buy-to-let when landlords had almost nowhere to turn for finance. Thirty years later, he and Paragon Bank's Louisa Sedgwick reflect...

Harpenden’s expat move could be bigger than the numbers suggest

Harpenden Building Society’s move into expat mortgages this summer has been good news for brokers and borrowers. But I think its importance goes beyond...

We need to wait to get a clearer picture

It's been a week where the political and economic backdrop has moved almost as fast as rates themselves, and it's worth taking stock of...

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Phoebus completes latest SOC 2 Type II assessment

Phoebus Software has renewed its SOC 2 Type II attestation after KPMG assessed the...

Low-deposit mortgage lending climbs 38% to £24.7bn

Mortgage lending at loan-to-value ratios above 90% rose sharply over the past year as...

Stonebridge reports sharp rise in protection policies placed in trust

The proportion of protection policies being placed in trust has risen substantially over the...

Countrywide Surveying adds 35 newly qualified surveyors in 2026

Countrywide Surveying Services has added 35 newly qualified surveyors to its workforce so far...